Mari kodama
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Mari Kodama is an international pianist. She was born in Osaka, Japan and raised in Paris. She is known for her musicality and articulate virtuosity, playing a wide repertoire, powerfully yet elegantly.
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[edit] Education
She studied piano at the Conservatoire National in Paris, under Germaine Mounier, and chamber music under Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux.
[edit] Performances
Kodama has performed throughout Europe, the United States and Japan. She is especially known for playing Mozart and Beethoven.
In 2002 she gave her final performance of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle, which she presented over three consecutive seasons in Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Kodama is a founding member of chamber music festivals in San Francisco, Sapporo and Gmunden. She and her husband present one of the most unusual of these, Musical Days at Forest Hill, as this is one of the areas she is most passionate about.
[edit] Recordings
Kodama has recorded with Naxos, playing Beethoven Sonatas Nos. 21 (Waldstein), 23 (Appassionata) and 26 (Les Adieux). She has also recorded for Dutch label PentaTone classics, also playing music by Beethoven.
[edit] Personal Life
She played the Mozart Double Piano Concerto in Japan with her sister, Momo Kodama. She is married to conductor Kent Nagano, and lives in the Forest Hill section of San Francisco.
