Naho Bessho piano recital November 6, 2010

Naho Bessho, award-winning pianist from Japan, now living in NH, will give a piano recital at the recital hall in Pianoforte Chicago. She will perform Romantic music by Weber, Faure, Mendelssohn, Medtner, and Rachmaninoff. Admission is $15/adults, $10/students and children at the door. Website http://web.me.com/besshoo/naho/Home.html, and contact 603-969-0674.

At the age of 19 she won the highest award at the Japan Classical Music Competition, and graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music with a master's degree in 1999. She played a piano concerto in Nagoya with Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999, and in 2001 she won the 2nd prize at Yangtze-River-Cup International Competition in Osaka. She moved in the US in 2002 and graduated from Boston University in 2006 with a performance diploma. Since then she has been giving many piano solo recitals and ensemble concerts. In this fall, she will release her first CD “Invitation”.

Official Website: http://web.me.com/besshoo/naho/Home.html