Join us on Sunday for
Trillium Piano Trio
Tickets are available at the door
Yoko Sata Kothari, piano
Ruby Berland, violin
Benjamin Salsbury, ‘cello
About Yoko Sata Kothari , piano
Born in Tokyo, Pianist Yoko Sata Kothari began her performing career by winning the Northern Japan Classical Piano Competition at the age of eight. She then continued to collect top prizes for her performances including the Japan Young Pianist Award and the Machida Piano Competition. Since moving to the United States, Ms. Kothari won second place in the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition and was also chosen to receive the Kathleen McGowan Piano Scholarship Award. In 2007, she was awarded a prize for her outstanding Bartok performance in the Ibla International Piano Competition in Italy, as well as being chosen as one of the finalists in the Simone Belsky International Competition. In the spring 2011, she received an award in the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition in New York.
As an active solo performer, Ms. Kothari has been making international appearances, which include concerts in Japan, India, China, as well as a series of performances in Italy. She has released 3 CD recordings; “Piano Works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt” (2002) and “Ravel and Balakirev: French Impressionism and Russian Romanticism” (2006), and “Fantasies – J.S. Bach & Chopin” (2010). Aside from her performing career, together with her husband, Dilip, a classical guitarist, Ms. Kothari teaches at her private studio in North Palm Beach. Ms. Kothari graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Japan. Her teachers include Takako Maeda, Miwako Tsukada, as well as Dr. Roberta Rust and Phillip Evans at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.
To contact:
The Trilium Piano Trio
Yoko Sata Kothari at D & Y Studios
1611 Prosperity Farms Road
Lake Park, FL 33403 Phone (561)840-0409 Email pianistysk@aol.com Web www.yokoskothari.com
