❧ Pianist Shoko Inoue ~ In Recital
- Jan 9
- 3 min read
Sunday, March 21, 2027 at 2:00 pm
$30 per ticket
The 65th concert in the York Place Musical Salon.
❧ About the Concert
Join us for a captivating piano recital by renowned concert pianist Shoko Inoue who comes to the Salon with a program devoted to some of the great Romantic voices of the piano repertoire, including Chopin, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff.
Now a resident of Victoria, BC, Shoko is a prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and first-prize winner of the New York Chopin Competition. She has built an international career marked by performances at Carnegie Hall, Cambridge University, and the Glenn Gould Studio.
For Shoko, performance is never simply a display of technique. Shoko seeks to uncover each composer's deep, inner prayers, where she finds philosophical meditations, confessions, celebrations, and mystical transformations to share with the audience. Audiences can expect a performance that moves well beyond the notes on the page to an intimate encounter with the emotional and spiritual worlds these composers left behind.
“...Shoko is a pianist who immerses heart, soul and everything into her generous artistry, with supremely sensitive and evocative playing. Her technique is dazzling, her grasp of sonority and dynamics, exceptional.”
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The complete concert program will be announced before ticket sales commence.
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Tickets will be available on Thursday, January 21, 2027, at 9:00 am on this page.
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We gratefully acknowledge a generous donation from an anonymous patron who has sponsored the York Place Musical Salon since 2024. This support helps further our goal of presenting performances of the highest caliber. Thank you.
❧ About Shoko Inoue
Shoko Inoue has lived in Victoria, BC since 2010 when she took a temporary posting as Head of the Piano Department at the University of Victoria. She was a prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, first prize winner of the New York Chopin Competition, and Contemporary Music prize recipient of the Frinna Awerbuch Piano Competition in New York, where she made her Carnegie Hall debut.
Notable engagements include the Shostakovich Festival directed by Valery Gergiev at St. Cecilia’s Hall in Rome, a solo piano concert presented by the Embassy of Japan at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, and broadcast concerts from the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Ms. Inoue has performed Prokofiev Concerto #2 with Oshawa Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marco Parisotti, Schnittke Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, Schumann Piano Concerto with Oakville Symphony Orchestra, Bartok 3rd Piano Concerto with Scarborough Symphony, Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto with the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, Mozart Piano Concerto with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, and Bach Piano Concerto in F Minor conducted by Mark Skazinestsky. She also performed a trio concert in Florida with Pinchas Zuckerman and Amanda Forsyth.
Ms. Inoue has held solo recitals at Cambridge University in England and has performed as a soloist at the Royal Theatre with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra performing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto #2. She has also sought innovative ways to share her music through performances at shelters, jails, and hospitals, as well as through experimental film and other creative projects and tours. Shoko Inoue holds an Artist Diploma and Certification from Cleveland Institute of Music, as well as an MMus in Performance from the University of Montreal. Her primary teachers were Sergei Babayan, John Perry, and Marc Durand.
Shoko loves communicating with the animal and natural world.