樋口 舞
ピアニスト
桐朋学園大学音楽学部卒業、研究科修了。その後渡独し、Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy音楽大学ライプツィヒ修士課程を首席卒業。
ドイツPIANALE国際ピアノコンクール第3位。ローム奨学金及び特別賞受賞。副賞としてFulda(独)にて2夜連続ソロリサイタル。好評を博し、ドイツ地方紙に掲載。
2016年ソリストとして、ライプツィヒ音楽大学オーケストラとサンサーンス:ピアノ協奏曲第5番を共演。そして2022年、第11回バッハ国際ピアノコンクール(In Memoriam Walter Blankenheim)にて第3位。
留学中は、ライプツィヒをはじめ、バイロイトSteingräber&Söhneピアノ本社や、博物館など、ドイツ各地にて演奏活動を行う。また、オーストリア、ドイツ、イタリアなどヨーロッパ各地のセミナーにてディプロマ取得。
2017年9月日本に拠点を移し、帰国記念リサイタルを開催。地元紙に掲載される。
国内においては、幼少より、第23回厚木青少年音楽コンクール厚木市教育長賞、2003年カワイ音楽コンクール神奈川大会優勝、第27回ソレイユ音楽コンクール、第29回教育連盟ピアノオーディション地区優秀賞など数々のコンクールにて入賞を果たしている。
現在、ソロ、伴奏にわたる演奏活動、後進の指導、共に精力的に行なっている。フェリス女学院大学音楽学部副手、樋口ピアノ教室主宰。
これまでに、江崎光世、松元みなえ、上原興隆、Gerald Fauth, Jacques Ammon 、堀由紀子各氏に師事。また室内楽を、藤井和興、干野宜大、川村文雄の各氏に師事。
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Mai Higuchi
Pianist
Graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music with a degree in musicology and completed the graduate course. After that, she went to Germany and graduated at the top of her class from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Music University, Leipzig, Germany.
She won the third prize at the PIANALE International Piano Competition in Germany. He was awarded the Rohm Scholarship and a special prize. As a supplementary prize, she performed two consecutive nights of solo recitals in Fulda, Germany. The recital was well received and was published in a German regional newspaper.
In 2016, she performed Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Leipzig University of Music Orchestra as a soloist. And in 2022, she won the third prize at the 11th Bach International Piano Competition (In Memoriam Walter Blankenheim).
During her studies, she performed in Leipzig, at the Steingräber & Söhne Piano Headquarters in Bayreuth, at museums, and in other locations in Germany. She also received diplomas at seminars in Austria, Germany, Italy, and other European countries.
In September 2017, she moved her base to Japan and held a recital to commemorate her return to Japan. And she was featured in a local newspaper.
In Japan, she has won numerous prizes in competitions since her childhood, including the Atsugi City Superintendent of Education Prize at the 23rd Atsugi Music Competition for Youth, first prize at the 2003 Kawai Music Competition in Kanagawa, the 27th Soleil Music Competition, and the 29th Education Federation Piano Audition District Excellence Prize.
Currently, she is energetically engaged in both solo and accompanying performances, as well as teaching younger students. Also she works as an assistant professor of the Department of Music at Ferris University and the director of Higuchi Piano School.
She has studied with Mitsuyo Ezaki, Minae Matsumoto, Okitaka Uehara, Gerald Fauth, Jacques Ammon, and Yukiko Hori. And also studied chamber music under Kazuoki Fujii, Yoshihiro Hoshino, and Fumio Kawamura.
