Pianist Satoko Inoue is renowned throughout Japan, Europe and in United Stats as a leading interpreter of contemporary solo piano music. She has premiered works by some of Japan's foremost composers including Jo Kondo, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Satoshi Tanaka, Yuji Itoh. She is also known for performing works of other contemporary composers such as Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Henry Cowell, Giancinto Scelsi, Luciano Berio, and others.
Since 1991 Ms. Inoue has been presenting the solo piano series "Satoko Plays Japan" at major venues in that country. She has performed over a hundred contemporary pieces in sixteen concerts in this well-respected series. Before this she was pianist with Musica Practica Ensemble Tokyo, a leading Japanese ensemble which introduced many important pieces of new music to Japan. She is a post-graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University.
Besides performing in Japan, Satoko Inoue has appeared at major European festivals including Darmstadt, the International Experimental Music Festival in Bourges, and at Japan Year (Germany) in 1999. She has recorded two solo CDs on HatHut Records -- "JAPAN PIANO 1996" and "Jo Kondo Works for Piano". She has recorded works of Luc Ferrari on HatHut, and also the CD "Satoko Plays Mieko Shiomi" on the German label Edition Hundertmark.
Currently, besides concertizing, Ms. Inoue teaches piano and music theory at Kunitachi College of Music and at Ueno Gakuen University in Tokyo.