“To record Brahms’s piano music from his youth was an idea I was having since several years. Finally this project around the friendship of Brahms and the Schumanns came to live in Neumarkt/Germany with the great recording team of producer, Erdo Groot and Ientje Mooij and Shunske Yokoyama for the new model of Yamaha concert [...]
Markus Hinterhaeuser and Mari Kodama share a long friendship and often and often exchange musical ideas and projects. On 9 April, this friendship culminated in a concert at Schloss Elmau in the South of Germany where the two artists we were able to share the thoughts and ideas they had about the program together. The [...]
In April 2022 Mari Kodama has played Hans Werner Henze’s Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra under the musical direction of Ryusuke Numajiri in Yokohama’s concert hall in Japan. This was Numajiri’s first concert a the new Music Director of the Orchestra and Henze’s work “was a wonderful discovery [...]
Together with pianist Momo Kodama, Mari Kodama has recently performed two piano recital at La Scala in Paris. The program around John Adams, Samuel Adams, Samuel Barber and Steve Reich was titled “An American Evening” and reflected the musical engagement of the two pianists with the works of the composers. “As the concert has been [...]
In January 2022, Mari Kodama will perform three Beethoven Concerti in one very special concert evening together with Josep Caballé-Domenech and the Colorado Springs Symphony. Playing three Beethoven Concerti in a row is always a challenge for the pianist, but she is “very grateful for having wonderful partners for this adventure with Colorado Springs Symphony [...]
David Frost is nominated for a Grammy Award as Producer of The Year for the production of Mon Ami, Mon Amour, and others. The album Mon Ami, Mon Amour - French Repertoire for Cello and Piano by Mari Kodama and Matt Haimovitz was released by Pentatone in November 2020.
After an out-of-the-ordinary year 2020, we were all excited for 2021 and fulfilled with the hope to finally complete our plans we had for the big Beethoven celebration. Even though we had to make some change of plans due to restrictions, the experience of the two day celebration over 32 piano Sonatas exceeded everyone's expectation. It was a memorable way [...]
On Novemeber 6th Mari Kodama will play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 B-flat major op. 19 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Krzysztof Urbański at the MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall. 6 November 2021, 2 p.m., MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański Mozart: Magic flute overture Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 [...]
Mari Kodama, Kent Nagano, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin premiered Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier’s piano concerto Terra Nostra at the Philharmonie Berlin on 17 October 2021. The whole program also includes works by Hector Berlioz as well as Richard Strauss. The concert was broadcasted on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and can be listened to here. More about the program [...]
On 9 and 10 October Musical Days Production presents the Beethoven Marathon "A Portrait of BEETHOVEN: 32 Sonatas for piano". Led by pianist Mari Kodama and conductor Kent Nagano, the four-concert festival features world class performers in a celebration of Beethoven's 250th birthday. The festival presents Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas chronologically, inviting attendees to experience [...]