My mom's concert on the 21st Sun in Hampstead

[Mizuki KITAGAWA]

Hello dear my friends,

hope you are doing fine and weren't affected by the riots!

My mother, Akiko Kitagawa, who is a concert pianist based in Japan, is now in
London and is going to give her afternoon concert at Burgh House in Hampstead
on the 21st Sun Aug at 2 pm.
http://www.burghhouse.org.​uk/events/concerts.aspx
Sorry for such short notice, but would be so lovely if you can come to attend
the concert! Could you also ask your friends who might be interested in it? Th
ank you.
I will attach the flyer.

She is going to play Mozart's Sonata, Beethoven's Variations and “Moonlight S
onata",Chopin's Mazurkas, Impromptu, Andante spianato et grande polonaise bril
lante and Fantaisie.
Tickets ￡10 cons. ￡7, call 07930844231 or 07900221295 or email to akitagawa2
007-tickets@yaho​o.co.jp for booking.

Akiko Kitagawa's profile:
Born in Tokyo, she studied the piano with Leonid Kochanski and gave her first
recital at the age of eighteen. She continued her studies with Prof. Richard H
auser at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where she gradua
ted with the highest diploma in 1969. She has been a prizewinner at several in
ternational competitions including third prize at the Ferruccio Busoni Interna
tional Piano Competition, first prize at the Bösendorfer Piano Competitio
n and second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
After returning to Japan in 1970, she has performed extensively both nationall
y and internationally, including recitals in Vienna, Hamburg, Madrid, Warsaw,
Lima, Asunción, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 1984, she gave a complete cycl
e of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas in Tokyo in a ten-day period. Furthermore,
in 2004, she gave an all-Beethoven series including the complete piano sonatas
and piano concertos nos. 4 and 5.
Currently, she is Professor of Piano at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

http://www.geidai.ac.jp/st​aff/fm024e.html

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北川瑞季　(Mizuki KITAGAWA)
　　 mi-...@mbn.nifty.com
　　 mi-...@fuji.waseda.jp

[francesca catalani]

Hello Mizuki
 
I hope you are well.
 
Thanks for the invitation, it my pleasure to join you for your mum piano concert, you must be very proud of her.
 
I am definetely interested, let me ask araoud see if any of my friends would like to come along, please keep one for me and I let you know soon how many more i will need.
 
Take care

Francesca
 

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[Mizuki KITAGAWA]

Hello Francesca,

Thank you so much for coming to the concert on the 21st Sun!
I have already put your name on the ticket list.
Would be great if you could bring your friends too, but I will be very happy t
o see YOU at the venue anyway!

See you in a bit then.

Love,
Mizuki