Tamami Honma
Piano
Since an
auspicious
Tamami Honma’s appearances in many of the world’s great musical institutions have attracted notable acclaim, from the Bolshoi Hall in Moscow (as soloist with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) to the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (‘An eloquent, powerful performance’ NEW YORK TIMES, 2002); from the Wigmore Hall (‘an interpretation [of the Goldberg Variations] that was probably as transparent and faithful to Bach as it's possible to be on a modern piano’ MUSIC AND VISION, 2003) to St John’s Smith Square (‘Honma played with both flair and immediate understanding’ THE INDEPENDENT, 2003), establishing her position as a leading pianist of the younger generation and one with a voice of her own.
Tamami Honma’s commercial CD recordings have won high accolades. Here is a recent selection from Gramophone:
· Gramophone Award Nomination 2002
· Editor’s Choice - GRAMOPHONE, March 2004
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Critics’ Choice – ‘How can one resist?’ - GRAMOPHONE, December 2004
· ‘Tamami Honma plays brilliantly… very strongly recommended’ - GRAMOPHONE, March 2004
· ‘Make no mistake Honma is a superb player… a remarkably eloquent achievement… Hearing her performances one appreciates immediately how technically able and interpretatively alert she is… she catches its febrile intensity to perfection…very strongly recommended’’ - GRAMOPHONE, May 2004
· ‘An adventurous programme, brought off with aplomb…given with skill and affection…John McCabe and Tamami Honma (a pianist with a wide-ranging repertoire who has made herself a secure corner in McCabe’s music) offer everything with a spirit of adventure and enquiry’ – Bryce Morrison, GRAMOPHONE, August 2005
Ms Honma’s recordings referred to above are: McCabe’s Second Piano Concerto with the St Christopher’s Chamber Orchestra conducted by Donatus Katkus (Dutton Epoch); a major new disc of McCabe’s solo piano music centred around the première recording of his monumental Tenebrae (Metier); chamber music by Rawsthorne and McCabe (Metier); and two-piano repertoire (with John McCabe also playing piano) by Stravinsky, Copland, Britten, McCabe, McPhee and Athanasiadas (Dutton Epoch). Further recordings by Ms Honma encompass music from Mozart (with violinist Howard Davis, leader of the Alberni Quartet) and Chopin to works by composers such as Nigel Clarke and Constant Lambert. Consistently favourable reviews in BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, International Record Review and throughout the press as well as a broadcast of music from her solo CD Tenebrae on BBC Radio 3 bear witness to Ms Honma’s innovative and significant contribution to this field.
Recent personal interviews with Tamami Honma in the world’s press can be found, fittingly, in the four countries with which she is most closely associated, namely in the UK’s Gramophone (March 2004), Tokyo’s Yomiuri Shimbun (February 2004), Lithuania’s leading broadsheet Lietuvos Zinios (March 2005) and Salt Lake City’s Deseret Morning News (July 2005).
In her formative years in the US, Tamami Honma had already received first prizes in the Stravinsky Awards International Competition, Isabel Scionti International Competition, tri-annual Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition, Young Keyboard Artists’ Association National Competition and MTNA-Yamaha National Competition before she moved on to New York City to become a protégé of legendary pianist Byron Janis – himself a student of Vladimir Horowitz and the Lhevinnes – who sealed her ties to the romantic tradition over a four year period of intense study.
A participant
in major festivals such as the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival,
the Gaida Festival and Newbury Spring Festival, Tamami Honma has made numerous
radio and television broadcasts in
A glance at representative highlights in Ms Honma’s ever varied and enterprising 2004 / 2005 schedule reveals: an Emperor concerto with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra; an engagement to play with the Alberni Quartet; a radio broadcast of solo and chamber music with the Vilnius Quartet; a Haydn concerto coupled with a masterclass and a concert-symposium in Klaipeda; a masterclass at the Lithuanian Academy in Vilnius under the Erasmus Visiting Professor programme followed by participation in a gala concert featuring Japanese music with a televised press conference; membership of the jury at the 2005 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition in Salt Lake City and the 2004 Dvarionas International Piano Competition in Vilnius; and specially choreographed performances of two piano music in London and Canterbury’s Sounds New music festival amid several CD recordings and other concerts in the USA, UK and Lithuania.
Equally at home in traditional and contemporary repertoire, Tamami Honma often includes in her concert programmes the world premières of solo and chamber works written for her by distinguished composers, such as John McCabe’s eighth and ninth piano studies, premiered in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (2002) and St John’s Smith Square (2003) respectively.
Tamami Honma
has strong links with Lithuanian music, which she has been pioneering for some
years in the
Ms Honma has
been teaching at the Royal Academy of Music in
Tamami Honma was decorated by the President of
Lithuania with the Medal of the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of
Tamami Honma
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