After years of study, members of the class of 2022 share their talents and passion through a final graduation recital. Admission requires advance reservation and is complimentary.

Join Aimi Kobayashi for her graduation recital packed with romantic piano classics. She opens her program with Schumann Arabeske, Schubert’s Sonata in C minor, and Fantasie in F minor featuring faculty Meng-Chieh Liu. Aimi closes her program with two animated Chopin works.

A livestream of the performance will also be available on Curtis’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

Program

SCHUMANN	Arabeske, Op. 18, Op. 18
SCHUBERT	Sonata in C minor, D. 958 Allegro Adagio Menuetto: Allegro Allegro Aimi Kobayashi, piano
INTERMISSION
SCHUBERT	Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 Aimi Kobayashi, piano Meng-Chieh Liu, piano
CHOPIN	Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 42
CHOPIN	Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22 Aimi Kobayashi, piano

Aimi Kobayashi, from Yamaguchi, Japan, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2013 and studies with Meng-Chieh Liu. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Kobayashi is the Dorothy J. del Bueno Fellow.

Ms. Kobayashi made her orchestral debut with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra at age seven and has since performed as a soloist with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Moscow Virtuosi, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has performed throughout Japan and Europe; and in New York, Seoul, and Taegu.

Ms. Kobayashi has participated in the Japan NYC Festival at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and the fifth International Music Festival “Chopin and his Europe” in Poland. Her audition for Maestro Christoph Eschenbach was broadcast on LCI TV in France; and she has released two CDs and a DVD on EMI Classics.

Ms. Kobayashi has won first prize in several competitions, including Japan’s PTNA and Hupfer Tosu competitions; the International Chopin Competition in Asia; and the Student Music Concours of Japan.

Ms. Kobayashi began piano lessons at the age of three and previously studied with Yuko Ninomaya.

Meng-Chieh Liu, faculty

The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series. The Curtis Institute of Music receives funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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- Date Apr 7, 2022
- Time 8:00 P.M.
- Location Curtis Institute of Music, Field Concert Hall