St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Walnut Creek, California
Concert Program
Du bist die Ruh (You are My Rest) Schubert (Trans. Liszt)
Invisibles, Op. 124 after a poem by Antonio Machado Miguel del
Águila
I. La plaza tiene una torre, la torre un balcón The plaza has a
tower, the tower has a balcony.. II. el balcón tiene una dama, la
dama una blanca flor.. the balcony has a lady, the lady, a white
flower.. III. ha pasado un caballero - ¡quién sabe por qué pasó! -
y se ha llevado la plaza, con su torre y su dama su dama y su
blanca flor. There passed a man - nobody knows why - and he took
away the plaza, with its tower and its balcony, with its balcony
and its lady, its lady and her white flower.
Mélancolie Poulenc
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 Rachmaninoff
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We will hold a Question-and-Answer session with our performer at
the end of the concert. At this time, our concert audience at home
can submit questions for our performer using the chat function on
the Youtube screen.
In the Spotlight………………..
Natsuki Fukasawa's music career has taken her throughout U.S.
cities as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia,
Brazil, Japan and China, performing at such venues as Carnegie
Hall, Kennedy Center and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall. Fukasawa
has won many accolades and international prizes, including rave
reviews in Strad and Fanfare magazines and the Best Chamber Music
Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards. Ms. Fukasawa’s
performance highlights include a tour of Italy performing
Gershwin's Concerto in F as well as performances of Beethoven's
Third
and Fourth Piano Concerti, Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, Chopin’s
Second Piano Concerto, Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Song,
Mozart's A Major Concerto, K. 488, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano
Concerto and Ravel’s Concerto in G with orchestras in California.
She is the pianist for the soundtrack of recently released film We
Had to Go – Remembering Internment, and three compact discs,
including a live solo CD, Year in Prague, one with violinist Igor
Veligan titled Voices from Easter Europe and another with
bassoonist Scott Pool titled Vocalise. Most recently she was
featured in the documentary film by La Casa Films & Arts titled
36 Views of Mount Fuji. During this current season, she will be
appearing in concerts and master classes in Italy, Mexico, Spain,
Switzerland, the U.S. and in performances of Beethoven’s Piano
Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” in Northern California. Ms. Fukasawa
serves on the artist faculty of the Talis Festival & Academy in
Sarajevo, Bosnia and the Orfeo Music Festival in the Italian Alps.
She is currently on faculty at American River College and the
University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. She also has
taught at California State University Sacramento, Saint Mary's
College of Moraga. She also enjoys nurturing young talents in her
own private studio, where her students are winners of state,
national and international competitions including the invitation to
appear in the NPR show From the Top, and go on to pursue music in
college, to such places as the Manhattan School of Music and the
Brigham Young University. She began studying piano early with her
mother Takako Fukasawa and her main teachers were Fumiko Ishikawa,
Mark Richman, Martin Canin, Jan Panenka, Anne Koscielny. She
studied chamber music intensively as the member of Jalina Trio with
Ferenc Rados in Budapest, and violist Tim Frederiksen in
Copenhangen. She studied at the Czech Republic's Prague Academy of
Music as a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and received a
Performer’s Certificate Degree. She also earned her Bachelor and
Master's degrees from New York's Juilliard School and Doctorate
from the University of Maryland. Ms. Fukasawa has recorded for the
Classico, Da Capo, Mark Records MSR, North Pacific Music labels and
her career is noted in the World of Women in Classical Musicand
Who's Who in America. In 2018, she was awarded the Nelson Marquis
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Thank you for joining us at
St. Paul’s Concert Series St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
1924 Trinity Avenue Walnut Creek, California 94596
925-934-2324 www.StPaulsWC.org/concert-series