Atsuko Seki
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Arsuko Seki was born 1964 in Tokyo. From 1983-87 she studied there at the Musashino School of Music. Following that, she attended the mastercalss of Toshiko Murayama untio 1990 and was awarded a diploma. In Europe she began her studies in 1991 with Prof. Arnulf von Arnim at the Music Accademy in Dortmund, Germany. Under his guidance she got the concert diploma in 1995. In 1991 Ms. Seki won ex-aequo the first prize of the International Schubert-Competition, followed 1994 by the third prize of the International Piano Competition José Iturbi in Valencia, Spain. Finally in 1995 another first prize at the Piano Competition in Pinerolo, Italy. Various concert engagement in Germany and in Switzerland followed as a result of these prizes, among other the solo recital in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. In December 2002 she interpreted the 5th Beethoven Piano Concerto at the Tokyo Forum with the local Symphony.