Kent Nagano, Mari Kodama, Jan Vogler and Veronika Eberle together at the Würth Forum (November 2024)

Next Sunday, under the direction of Kent Nagano, a special program featuring Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and his Symphony No. 7 will be presented in the Rheinhold Würth Saal of the Carmen Würth Forum. Three renowned soloists will also be on stage for the Triple Concerto – pianist Mari Kodama, cellist Jan Vogler and violinist Veronika Eberle.

Further information under Kultur bei Würth.

Sun, 17.11.2024 17:00    CARMEN WÜRTH FORUM
Reinhold Würth Hall
Würth Philharmonic Orchestra
Veronika Eberle Violin
Jan Vogler violoncello
Mari Kodama Piano
Kent Nagano Conductor

Beethoven:
Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra in C major, op. 56 “Triple Concerto”
Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92

Mari Kodama makes her concert debut with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie (October 2024)

Pianist Mari Kodama makes her concert debut with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie under the baton of their Music Director, Jeremie Rhorer, on 10th October at Les Invalides in Paris. She plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1.
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New CD by Mari Kodama: Bruckner piano works (September 2024)

Pianist Mari Kodama is releasing a new CD on PENTATONE with a collection of Bruckner’s rarely heard piano works for the Bruckner bicentenary. With this recording, Mari Kodama succeeds in drawing a nuanced portrait of Bruckner, which gains depth through the original selection and perspective of the pieces.

The pre-order link or link to the release on Apple Music can be found here.

Mari Kodama is one of the most extraordinary pianists of our time and has an impressive PENTATONE discography to her name: Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas (2003-2014), piano concertos by Loewe and Chopin (2003), Tchaikovsky’s ballet suites for piano duet (2016), De Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain (2017), Martinů’s Concerto for Two Pianos (2018), Kaleidoscope: Beethoven Transcriptions and MON AMI Mon amour (both 2020), New Paths (2022) and piano concertos by Mozart and Poulenc (2024).

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Mari Kodama and “Living the Classical Life” interview (February 2024)

“A zone of ease by being yourself”: pianist Mari Kodama was interviewed by “Living the Classical Life”. In the interview she describes her life on stage and her studies with her legendary mentors Alfred Brendel and Tatyana Nikolayeva, as well as finding balance in life and on stage.

Mari Kodama’s new CD “Mozart & Poulenc: Double and Triple Concertos” (February 2024)

Mari Kodama’s successful start to the 23/24 season began at the Hamburg City Hall Open Air concert with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano performing Beethoven’s Concerto No.2. This year begins with Mari Kodama performing two piano concertos (Colin Mcphee’s Tabuh – Tabuhan for two pianos and orchestra and Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos) with her sister Momo Kodama and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo.

Her collaboration with the CD label Pentatone will see her recording piano pieces by Bruckner in April and the release of her newest CD “Mozart & Poulenc: Double and Triple Concertos” together with Momo Kodama, Karin Kei Nagano and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Kent Nagano. One focus of Mari Kodama’s discography is the complete recording of piano works including the sonatas and concerti of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Her complete discography can be seen here.

Here you can listen to Mari Kodama at the Chopin Festival Hamburg in 2021 with Ravel’s Sonatine on Erard:

Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama with the Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano (December 2023)

On December 5 and 6, Kent Nagano conducts the Haydn Orchestra with Mari Kodama at the piano in the Bolzano Concert Hall. The program includes works by Haydn and Ligeti, two very different composers who both use humor, irony and the fun of surprise in their music. 2023 would have been Ligeti’s 100^th anniversary.

György Ligeti: Poème symphonique / Musical Ceremonial for 100 Metronomes
György Ligeti: Musica Ricercata n. 11 “Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi”
Haydn: Sonata in C major Hob. XVI/48
György Ligeti: Concerto for piano and orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B flat major, Hob. I: 102

Mari Kodama with Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto in Hamburg (September 2023)

This Saturday, on 2 September, pianist Mari Kodama will present Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Philharmonic State Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano at the annual Rathausmarkt Open Air.

Mari Kodama is one of the benchmark Beethoven interpreters of our time and has recorded all of the composer’s piano sonatas, among others. The 2nd Piano Concerto has also been released on CD, together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano on Berlin Classics. More information about Mari Kodama and her recordings can be found here.