Noriko!

Noriko Tsukagoshi

Classical marimba

Lewisville Lake

International Chamber Series

featuring emerging artists from around the world.

Sponsored by the Lewisville Lake Symphony in cooperation with the University of North Texas

Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

Trinity Presbyterian Church  (Map)
5500 Morriss Road, Flower Mound TX 75028
(Just south of Marcus HS, on the other side of the road.)

Concert is free  - a donation to the Symphony is welcomed

Click here to see Noriko playing "Caritas" by Michael Burritt

Claude Debussy:  Dr.Gradus ad Parnassum 

Saúl Consentino:  Tango for Gary

 Guillo Espel:  Zamba para escuchar tu silencio 

Kazunori Miyake:  Chain

 -intermission-

Eric Sammut:  The Snake's Dream

Michael Burritt: Caritas

 Keiko Abe:  Variations on Japanese Children's songs

Noriko Tsukagoshi

Born in Saitama, Japan, Noriko Tsukagoshi began her musical studies at age 3 on the piano. She started studying the marimba when she was 12 years old.

She was Awarded scholarships from Kunitachi College of Music and The Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation. She graduated at the top of Kunitachi College of Music and had the honor of performing the marimba in front of the Imperial Family in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in March 2006.

She took lessons from Keiko Abe in the Hamamatsu International Wind Instrument Academy and Festival ,and was given the opportunity to perform in the festival with Keiko Abe as the "best player" in 2002.

Also, she won the 1st prize of Japan Classical Music Competition in 1998, the 2nd prize of the International Marimba Competition in Belgium in 2004, the Talent Award at the 4th World Marimba Competition in Shanghai in 2005, the Special Award (grandprix)) at the Japan Percussive Arts Society 22nd Annual Percussion Solo Concert for newcomers in 2006, and the 1st prize of International Marimba Competition in Paris in 2006.

Noriko Tsukagoshi's 2006 performance before the Japanese Imperial Family

In addtion to those prizes, she had been invited as a guest artist to present recitals in Sint-truiden (Belgium), Luzern, Bern, Sempach, Schupfheim(Switzerland), Warsaw(Poland),Tokyo, Yamaguchi and Okayama(Japan).

 Currently, she studies at University of North Texas receiving scholarship of the Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation.