Yuko seeks out the real Chopin

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‘Pianist Kawai seeks out the real Chopin’ - The Japan Times, 9th January 2009 [web]
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Yuko Kawai long interview ‘Chopin, Poland, National Edition…’ - NHK TV textbook, 2010 (Japanese) [PDF]
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‘Warsaw, Chopin and…’ - Ongaku no Tomo magazine, pp.84-86, Dec 2007 (Japanese) [PDF].



Poland - a country rich in tradition

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With prof.Jan Ekier, at his house in Warsaw, 1993
photograph: Stanisław Ekier

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With prof.Paweł Kamiński, co-editor of Chopin National Edition, interview for Mostly Classic Magazine
Tokyo, 18th May 2004

photograph: Masumi Sato

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With prof.Paweł Kamiński, Tokyo College of Music, May 2004


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With prof. Paweł Kamiński, co-editor of Chopin National Edition
at the office of National Edition Foundation, July 2007
photograph: Marcin Gorayski


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The encounter with Anna Żurawlew, Barbara Drzewiecka, Eva Rubinstein, Halina Szpilman…

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With Anna Żurawlew, Chopin Competition initiator Jerzy Żurawlew(1886-1980)’s wife
After Yuko’s recital at Japanese Ambassador’s residence, September 2001
photograph: Magazine ‘Ambasador’


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With Eva Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein’s daughter
‘A.Rubinstein in Memoriam’ International Competition for Young Pianists, Bydgoszcz, April 2002


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from left: prof. Andrzej Jasiński, Yuko Kawai and prof. Dan Zhaoyi (jury members)
The International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia, January 2003


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from left: Halina Szpilman (Wladyslaw Szpilman’s wife), Ewa Cichoń (former director of National Edition Foundation),
Yuko Kawai, Barbara Drzewiecka (prof. Zbigniew Drzewiecki’s wife),
Jakub Ekier (prof. Jan Ekier’s son). behind: Jan Krzysztof Broja
National Edition Special Concert, 17th March 2005, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall


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With Mariola Nałęcz, the head of music collections section of National Library of Poland
National Library in Warsaw, 2007
photograph: Slawomir Kielbowicz


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With Mariola Nałęcz, seeing the copy by Adolf Gutmann, Chopin’s pupil - Chopin’s Sonata in B-flat minor Op.35
We’ve had a huge ‘historic’ mistake by German publisher from the copy.
National Library in Warsaw, March 2005
photograph: Masayoshi Ogasawara


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With music critic Józef Kański, at Europejski Hotel in Warsaw, 2005
He gave a stirring discourse/lecture about Arthur Rubinstein, using Rubinstein’s unknown monaural recordings


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With Grzegorz Michalski, musicologist, former director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, 2007
photograph: Slawomir Kielbowicz


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Chopin specialists - from left: Zofia Chechlińska, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger (Geneva University),
Yuko Kawai, Elżbieta Artysz and Irena Poniatowska
Warsaw University, 22nd May 2013
photograph: William M.Helmcke


Yuko and historical instruments
She is ripe in experience playing historical instruments: has played Pleyel 1830, Pleyel 1846, Erard 1852, Erard 1855 and Pleyel 1869 for her concerts and recordings.
She loves playing 19th century pianos and has gained valuable experiences.


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Iwata, Shizuoka, May 2004
special thanks: Nippon Boesendorfer


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*Pleyel 1846* with Nobuo Yamamoto & Midori Hatano, Spece Cristofori Sakai, Osaka, July 2005
special thanks: Nobuo Yamamoto & Midori Hatano


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*Pleyel 1846* tuning by Nobuo Yamamoto, Okazaki Civic Centre Concert Hall, June 2006
special thanks: Okazaki Civic Centre Concert Hall, Nobuo Yamamoto


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*Pleyel 1846* recital in Okazaki, Okazaki Civic Centre Concert Hall, June 2006
special thanks: Okazaki Civic Centre Concert Hall, Nobuo Yamamoto


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*Pleyel 1830* recital, lecture and CD recording at ACT CITY The Seminar and Exchange Centre, Hamamatsu, January 2010
special thanks: Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, Shima Kazuhiko-san, Namayama-san, Kojima Recordings, Inc.


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*Pleyel 1830* lecture/concert at ACT CITY The Seminar and Exchange Centre, Hamamatsu, January 2010
special thanks: Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, Shima Kazuhiko-san


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*Pleyel 1830* lecture/concert at ACT CITY The Seminar and Exchange Centre, Hamamatsu, January 2010
special thanks: Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, Shima Kazuhiko-san


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*Pleyel 1830* recital at ACT CITY The Seminar and Exchange Centre, Hamamatsu, January 2010
special thanks: Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, Shima Kazuhiko-san


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*Pleyel 1846* recital in Kishiwada, Osaka, November 2010
*Pleyel 1846 & Erard 1852* recital at Space Cristofori Sakai, Osaka, November 2010
special thanks: Kishiwada Music Festival, Nobuo Yamamo & Midori Hatano


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*Erard 1855* (NIFC) recital at Chopin Museum Concert Hall in Warsaw, March 2013
special thanks: NIFC


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*Erard 1855* (NIFC) Chopin Museum Concert Hall in Warsaw, March 2013
special thanks: NIFC, photograph: Teruo Matsumoto
[video] Yuko plays Erard 1855 - J.S.Bach, Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11-I(1)
[video] Yuko plays Erard 1855 - Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11-I(2)
[video] Yuko plays Erard 1855 - Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11-II
[video] Yuko plays Erard 1855 - Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11-III




photograph in Zelazowa Wola: Slawomir Kielbowicz