Education
She studied in Essen, Detmold and Hannover, where she lives currently, and even though the Japanese culture is very well known to her, she describes herself as European and considers Germany as her homeland.
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Fumiko Shiraga
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Career
She began studying piano in her native Tokyo before she was four years old, and when she was three her family moved to Germany. Additional training came from international masterclasses with Nikita Magaloff, Yara Bernette, Jeremy Menuhin, Paul Badura-Skoda and Edith Picht-Axenfeld and from the Polish pedagogue Malgorzata Botor-Schreiber. Fumiko Shiraga has performed as a solo artist and with orchestras, as well as with chamber music ensembles.
She has been instrumental in the revival of the transcriptions (for flute, violin, violoncello and piano), by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, of some of the Mozart piano concertos.
She recorded the two Piano Concertos by Chopin in a piano and string quintet transcription (1997) and then, in 2001 and in a similar arrangement, she recorded Beethoven"s First and Second piano concertos, as well as piano music by Bruckner, including a piano arrangement of his seventh symphony.
Achievements
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Several first prizes at the Young Musician’s Competition, the special prize at the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund in 1989. A scholarship from the Stendal Music Foundation In 1992, a prize (1993) at the International Chopin Competition in Göttingen, a new scholarship (1995) from the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council) in Bonn and acceptance into the 40th National Selection of "Concerts by Young Artists" (1996). Her Civil Defense with the Mozart piano concertos 22 and 26 was selected as Editor"s Choice in January 2006, and in the same year her last Civil Defense of the Mozart-Hummel series, with the piano concerto Number. 18 and the 40th Symphony was selected as Civil Defense of the month by Piano News.
Membership
Several first prizes at the Young Musician’s Competition, the special prize at the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund in 1989. A scholarship from the Stendal Music Foundation In 1992, a prize (1993) at the International Chopin Competition in Göttingen, a new scholarship (1995) from the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council) in Bonn and acceptance into the 40th National Selection of "Concerts by Young Artists" (1996).
