MIT Affiliate Artist Yukiko Sekino will present a piano recital featuring:
Mozart: Sonata in A minor, K. 310
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
Chopin: Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 No. 3
Chopin: Etude in E minor, Op. 25 No. 5 & Etude in A-flat major, Op. 10 No. 10
Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor, Op. 39
About the Artist
Yukiko Sekino is the Gold Medalist of the 2006 International Russian Music Piano Competition and a 2010 winner of the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award. During the final round of the International Russian Music Piano Competition, she received the Public Prize through audience vote for her performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. Sekino is also a winner of Tanglewood Music Center’s Jackson Prize, the JAA Music Award in New York, and the Mu Phi Epsilon International Music Competition.
She made a debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen, and has since performed with the New World Symphony, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Recent recitals include those at Jordan Hall in Boston, Overtures Series in Washington, D.C., Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, Northeast Asia International Piano Festival in China, and Hitomi Memorial Hall in Japan. She has given masterclasses in the United States and China.
An avid chamber musican and a new music performer, Sekino has been invited to Tanglewood Music Center, Thy Masterclass Chamber Music Festival (Denmark), and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. In 2013, she performed as a piano soloist in Elliott Carter’s Double Concerto for Piano and Harpsichord in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall as a culmination of the Weill Institute Professional Training Workshop with John Adams and David Robertson.
Sekino is a graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, and holds a doctoral degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her teachers include Gilbert Kalish, Seymour Lipkin, Robert Levin, and Eda Shlyam. She previously taught at Colby College, and currently teaches piano at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the New England Conservatory Prep School.
