Piano Extravaganza! Festival 2012 -Noriko Ohtake in Concert

Piano Extravaganza! 2012 Festival Guest Artist Noriko Ohtake performs in concert. Ohtake is a Juilliard trained pianist from Yokohama, Japan, currently Associate Professor at Sagami Women's University.

The first half of Ohtake’s Friday concert program will feature a diverse collection of ten short preludes from widely varying composers including J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Grieg, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Ravel and Debussy.

The second half of the Friday concert will feature the U.S. premieres of two piano works by Japanese composers, and a final piece performed by Ohtake with festival coordinator Dr. Manabu Takasawa, who directs the URI Music Department Piano Program.

Ohtake will also perform in the finale of the festival’s second concert Saturday, March 31, which features performances by selected students in the URI piano program.