Yoko Hirota



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Yoko Hirota

Associate Professor

Music
Humanities and Social Sciences



Hirota has been praised by the press as precise and keenly projective and demonstrating the highest level of proficiency. Japanese-Canadian pianist Yoko Hirota is considered one of the leading interpreters of contemporary piano repertory of her generation. After undergraduate and graduate studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo, Ms. Hirota obtained her doctoral degree.

Education
  • Doctor of Music in Piano Performance
  • Master of Music in Piano Performance
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music in Piano Performanc
Research Focus -Contemporary Classical Piano Music and Chamber Music with Piano
-Piano Music for Young Performers by Canadian Composers
Awards
  • Clara Lichetenstein Piano Comp
  • Ontario Arta Counsil & Canada
  • Herbert A. Morse Scholars

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