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pianist

Sophie-Mayuko Vetter has been praised as an artist of extraordinary expressivity and versatility by press and colleagues alike. She has been performing since an early age in the world’s renowned concert halls, including the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmony Essen, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Mozarteum Salzburg, Felsenreitschule (Salzburg Festival), Muffathalle (Munic Biennale), Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London), Blackheath Halls (London), Opera City Hall (Tokyo), and many others.
Since her recording debut at age 14 with the 24 Chopin Preludes as a recipient of the Parke-Davis Prize, Ms. Vetter has released various CDs and been widely recorded by the major European and Asian broadcasters, including Bavarian Radio (BR), West German Radio (WDR), Southwest German Radio (SWR), Switzerland’s DRS, Austria’s ORF, and Tokyo FM as well as Radio Television Hong Kong in 2009.
Having performed at some of the most prestigious international festivals in recent years (including the Salzburg Festival, Munich Biennale, Albert Konzerte and Raderberg Concerts at Radio Germany), Ms. Vetter currently looks forward to performances, master classes for piano students and recordings in Asia and Europe.
Ms. Vetter’s repertoire ranges from early Baroque to Contemporary, and she infuses her interpretations of each epoch with their own unique stylistic requirements. She also performs much of the 18th and 19th century repertoire on the fortepiano, which lends her interpretations of the same repertoire on the modern piano a distinctly fresh and historic touch, including improvisation and ornamentation. She extends aspects of period performance practice to her long-time chamber music collaboration with Rainer Kussmaul, former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Sophie-Mayuko Vetter has long been a champion of Contemporary Music. Her close work with luminaries such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Peter Ruzicka and Henri Pousseur has included numerous performances of their compositions under their guidance. Ms. Vetter gave the premiere of Stockhausen’s seminal work “Spiral” (her own solo piano version) in 1999; Mr. Mahnkopf, an exponent of New Complexity, dedicated her among others his piano concerto “Prospero’s Epilogue”, which she premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2005 with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Vetter recently premiered and recorded Mr. Pousseur’s piano work “Paravent of an Old Monk,” of which she is the dedicatee, in Belgium and Japan. Numerous further CD recordings of the piano works by Toru Takemitsu, Peter Ruzicka and Olivier Messiaen are on her schedule 2009/10.
Sophie-Mayuko Vetter is also active in the area of musicology. She contributes articles regularly to Germany’s Music and Aesthetics, among other leading publications.
Sophie-Mayuko Vetter was born in Sapporo, Japan, and moved at age 6 with her family to Germany. Her father, Michael Vetter, a highly versatile artist in his own right, was a major influence in her early musical development. Besides his activities as a visual artist, he was her mentor in overtone singing. Their touring as a vocal duo until 1996 helped shape her musical aesthetics on the piano.
Sophie-Mayuko Vetter received her Masters of Music with distinction at the University of Music Freiburg, where she studied piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld and Vitaly Margulis, period performance practice with Robert Hill, and musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Her studies with Peter Feuchtwanger in London were another strong influence. Ms. Vetter has participated in master classes with Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Klaus Hellwig, Karl-Heinz Ka¨mmerling, John Perry, Bruno-Leonardo Gelber and Hans Leygraf.　日本における専属アーティスト。