Atsuko Koga & Fuminori Tanada
Biography Atsuko Koga & Fuminori Tanada
Atsuko Koga
Concert flutist Atsuko Koga was born in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating in Tokyo, she transferred to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danses de Paris, where she completed her flute studies with distinction.
She has won awards at many international competitions, including First Prize at the Grand Concours International de l’Academie de Lutèce, the Grand Concours Gaston Crunelle et Lucien Wurmser and the Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest. She has also earned a Second Prize at the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona, the Music Competition “Le splendere” by the Tokyo International Association of Art and the International Music Competition Caltanisetta in Italy.
She has been a soloist for, among others, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Kyūshū Philharmonic in Fukuoka, the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, the Philharmonie Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest and in Germany with the Magdeburgische Philharmonie, the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Ensemble Villa Musica, the Kammerphilharmonie Ascania, the Sofia Solisten and Gabrovo Chamber Orchestra, and performs each year with the Rossini-Quartett.
Atsuko Koga has received invitations to numerous music festivals. She is featured in many recordings for radio and television in Japan and Europe.
Fuminori Tanada
was born in 1961 in Okayama, Japan and studied at the National University of Art and Music in Tokyo as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. He resides in Paris and divides his time between performing as a pianist and composing.
Since 1990 he has been the pianist of the Itinéraire ensemble for new music, for which he also composes. He has also been the official pianist of the flute class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris since 1991, where he has served as professor of chamber music since 2014.
Most of Tanada’s compositions have been published by Éditions Henry Lemoine, Éditions IMD, and Éditions Gérard Billaudot. His works are performed all over the world. In 2015, for example, his F for flute solo, released by GENUIN classics, was a compulsory piece at the ARD International Music Competition.
