artistic director

Ms Director Keiko Hattori, M.A.

Pianist

We are very pleased to be able to introduce the in 2014 founded further education establishment “The Private Mozart Academy Austria” to the young gifted musicians in the world.

Our academy has invited 16 internationally renowned pianists, strings and woodwinds who give recitals and chamber concerts as the winner of the most important international music competitions at the international level for many years successfully, to conduct a master class and offers the young talents the one-week master classes with 6 different appointments, which put emphasis on better instrumental playing.

As Artistic Director, I wish all participants of the master classes a successful and fruitful week and an intensive study of music in the most elegant castle Kogl and in the quiet surroundings with the beautiful nature of the Salzkammergut.

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The Japanese pianist Keiko HATTORI took the first piano lesson at the age of three and gave two years later the first concert. After her graduation at the Tokyo University of the Arts she studied 2001- 2008 with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the University Mozarteum Salzburg as a scholarship student of the Japanese Rohm Music Foundation, where she graduated with highest honors in 2008.

She is the prize-winner of many international music competitions such as the International Pianoforte Competition Cologne “Foundation Tomassoni” in Germany, the Geneva International Music Competition in Switzerland and the International Telekom Beethoven Competition for Piano in Bonn, Germany.

She gives numerous recitals, chamber concerts, concerts with orchestra in major concert halls such as Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthaus Berlin, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Philharmonie Cologne, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Herkulessaal Munich and Suntory Hall Tokyo. In addition, she regularly performs at leading music festivals such as the Ruhr Piano Festival, the International Beethovenfest Bonn, the International Bodensee Festival, the Pianoforte-Fest Meissen, the Mozartweek Eifel (Germany), Euriade Festival (Holland), International Chamber Music Festival in Santa Cristina d’ Aro, Setmana Internacional de Musica de Cambra in Montserrat (Spain), Festival Musicale “Musica in Castello” in Racconigi (Italy), March Music Days International Music Festival in Ruse (Bulgaria) and the Hokuto International Music Festival in Yamanashi (Japan).　The recordings of her performances have been broadcast on various radio programs at home and abroad.

As Soloist she has performed with orchestras like the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, the Polish National Orchestra Czestochowa, the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Gülke, Heribert Beissel, Roman Kofman and Jerzi Salwalowski. In the field of chamber music, she has performed with renowned musicians such as Mischa Maisky, Stephan Picard, Christine-Maria Höller, Alex Ladstätter, Friedemann Wuttke and the Asasello Quartett.

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