Italian Music School "il trillo" - EDITION 2006

FLORENCE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMPUS
School of Music Il Trillo 27 July – 10 August 2006

Piano and Piano Duets
Maestro Shuko Iwasaki
01 August - 05 August 2006

Languages spoken: English, Japanese
Shuku was born and raised in Kurashiki, Western Japan. She studied at the Toho Gakuen, Hartford College, The Julliard School and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Her tutors include Akiko and Motonari Iguchi, J. Lateiner, Benedetti Michelangeli, S. Lorenzi, and I. Freundrich.

She won third place in the Munich International Music Competition in 1967 and took part in the Budapest Competition in 1968. She was awarded the special prize as an accompanist in the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition in 1970. She joint recitals with Starker, Tortelier, Lukas-Graf, Perlman, Navarra, Gitlis, Maisky, Gendron, etc. She taught pupils of the chamber music class at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy) during the summertime, together with Prof. R. Brengola for 20 years.

She started the concert series “Music in Style in 1976 and has held another concert project, “Okinawa Moon Beach Music Camp & Festival for 18 years since 1979, which was changed into “Okinawa International Musical Festival” and was restarted with her brother, Ko in 1997. She won the “Art Festival” Award in 1989 for the success of “Shuku Iwasaki’s Music in Style”. She was awarded a medal from the Kingdom of Norway for her service to the country in 1999. She is currently engaged in not only judging and screening at the Viotti-Valsesia and Kantu International Music Competitions but also in teaching at the “Department of accompaniment” in the Holland Music Sessions as well as in the Toho Gakuen Daigakuin Daigaku School of Music, devoting herself as a teacher since April 1999 to bring up good musicans.

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Italian Music School "Il Trillo"