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Name
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Kaori Okatani
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Bio
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Kaori Okatani began to learn music at the age of 4. When 6 years old, she began to play the piano. At the age of 13, she played F.J.Haydn's Piano Concerto with Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (Dir. Kazuhiko Komatsu). She is one student of Pianist Yoriko Takahashi in Tokyo.
She obtained a Bachelor of Music (Composition major) at Kobe Jogakuin University in Japan.
Kaori Okatani obtained the "Diplome Superieur de Composition"
(in a graduate Master's course) in Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. After graduating, she had studied the composition in the class of Perfectionnement (correspond to Doctoral course in Japan) of the same Ecole. She is one student of Composers Yoshihisa Taira and Allain Gaussin in Paris.
She obtained the 1st medal of the piano with one assent of judges in Conservatoire International de Paris. She is one student of Pianist Laurence Allix in Paris and Pianist Michael Krist in Wien.
In addition to composition, she also studied orchestration, solfege, analysis, accompaniment, composition of movie music and direction in Paris.
The great composers in France commented that her piece was raffine(refined). Its refined elegant style is appreciated worldwide.
Her piece of movie music was performed by Octuor de France at the special class in Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. She is one student of Composer Bruno Coulais at the special class in Paris.
Kaori Okatani 's works (including commissioned ones) were first performed by Orchestre de Flutes Francais, Ensemble Octandre, Ensemble EAR, Marcel Worms, Shinobu Fukumoto, Jean Geoffroy, Eleonore Pameijer, etc. in Paris, Belgrade, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Barcelona, Bologna, Dublin, the United States of America(Ohio, Connecticut, New York, Wisconsin) and so on.
Her piece "Three Colors for Marimba solo" has been being published by C.F.Peters and its CD released by Bridge Records in New York, the United States.
As a pianist, she has developed concerts of classic music and her own compositions in Paris and Kyoto so far.
2003, Selected as Postmistress of a Day, Wakayama Central Post Office
Kaori Okatani