Saori Sarina Ohno
Saori Sarina Ohno (born 1970 in Tokyo, Japan) is pianist, who was raised in Germany.
Education
She began playing the piano at the age of four. At sixteen, she entered the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, as a student of Lieselotte Gierth and Gerd Lohmeyer. After receiving her Masters Degree, she continued her studies at Indiana University where she received an Artist Diploma as a student of Menahem Pressler. She also obtained a Graduate Chamber Music Diploma from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 2005, she received her doctoral degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel." Additionally, she studied with Rita Sloan, Joseph Kalichstein and Lev Natochenny.
Awards
She was the winner of the German National Youth Competition Jugend musiziert in 1986, the 1992 E. Nakamichi Piano Competition in Aspen, the 1994 Indiana University Piano Competition and won top prizes at the prestigious Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions.
Style
She concertizes extensively as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Japan and Taiwan.
She is on the faculty of Shobi University and Shobi Music College.
In 2010, she released her first CD of piano music by Maurice Ravel (WWCC-7662). The album received critical acclaim and was awarded a "Special Prize" by Recording Arts Magazine February 2011 issue (レコード芸術２０１１年２月号特選盤).