Vancouver Chopin Society presents Aimi Kobayashi
A child prodigy who started piano lessons at age 3, and made her concerto debut at age 8, Aimi Kobayashi won 4th prize at the 18th International Chopin Competition. To this date, we remember her stunning performance of the 24 Preludes in he 3rd round of the competition. Before her triumph in Warsaw, Kobayashi had won prizes in many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer Young Artist Competition. In 2011, she made her acting debut in the Japanese film “Sleep.”
She gave her first Carnegie Hall recital for the Japan NYC Festival, of which the late Seiji Ozawa was director, and she has appeared with distinguished orchestras both within Japan and internationally. An immensely popular musician in Japan, she performs regularly as recitalist as well as concerto soloist. She has also performed with orchestras such as the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Japan Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and the Münchner Philharmoniker.
An active recording artist, she has recorded works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. In 2024, she recorded her latest CD, the music of Schubert, for Warner Classics.
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