Maki Namekawa

Pianist Maki Namekawa has an international career, sometimes performing with her husband, conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies. She is especially noted as an exponent of music by Philip Glass and has premiered several important works by that composer. Namekawa was born in Tokyo, and the first part of her training came at the Kunitachi University of Music there. Her principal teacher was Mikio Ikezawa. Namekawa went on to the Conservatoire de Paris, where she studied with Henriette Puig-Roget. The 1994 Leonid Kreutzer Prize helped her win admission the following year to...