Duo Yamamoto
Duo Yamamoto
Yuka Yamamoto piano
Ayaka Yamamoto piano
The sisters Yuka and Ayaka Yamamoto have been performing together as a piano duo since 2009 and have won numerous prizes in national and international competitions. Within a year of founding the duo, the Yamamotos won first prize and a special prize at the PTNA Piano Competition (Japan) and the Grand Prize at the 3rd Yokohama International Music Competition (Japan). In 2010, they received first place and the Critic’s Award at the 13th Concorso Internationale “Pietro Argento” in Italy, as well as the Grand Prize at the 16th International Piano Duo Competition in Japan. The duo was accepted into the second round of the 59th International ARD Competition in Munich in 2010. In 2011 they received special honorable mention at the “Liszt 200” International Piano Duo Competition in Chicago (USA), followed, in 2013, by first prize at the 12th Murray Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition in Miami (USA).
April 27 (Sunday), 8pm
CLEMENTI Sonata No.1, op. 12
BOLCOM Recuerdos para dois pianos
SCHUMANN 6 Studien in kanonischer Form, op. 56
CHOPIN Rondó for two pianos, op.73