Fuko Ishii

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Nationality Japan

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She is the first prize winner of the 17th Grieg International Piano Competition in Norway in 2022. After graduating from Toho Gakuen School of Music, she received the first prize in the piano section of the 82nd Japan Music Competition in 2013, and was also awarded the Nomura, Iguchi, Kawai, and Miyake Prizes. In 2013, she won the first prize in the piano section of the 82nd Japan Music Competition and was also awarded the Nomura Prize, the Iguchi Prize, the Kawai Prize, and the Miyake Prize. She also won the first prize at the 2nd German Brahms Competition, where he performed Brahms' 2nd concerto with the Landestheater Detmold Orchester. She won the prize in the soloist competition of the Jemanuel and Eva Maria Schenck Foundation in Switzerland.

She performed Beethoven's Concerto No. 1 with the Argofia Philharmonic Orchestra.
Major awards include the first prize in the elementary school division of the 56th All Japan Student Music Competition in 2002. In 2004, she won the 3rd prize in the A category at the 9th Ettlingen International Piano Competition for Youth (Germany). In 2008, she won second prize in the piano section of the 6th Tokyo Music Competition, and in 2010, second prize in the Chopin Competition of Japan 2010. In 2013, she won the first prize at the 1st Toho Concerto Competition.

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