Kei Itoh
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Kei Itoh is a Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese pianist.

Itoh graduated at the Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku
Toho Gakuen School of Music
is a private conservatoire located in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.-History:Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Kudan as a music school for children, and two years later opened the Toho High School of Music, to provide quality musical education to teenage girls. 1955 saw the establishment of the Junior...

 in 1977, finishing her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Musikhochschule Hannover. She won the 1979 Epinal and 1983 Munich Competitions.

She has been awarded the XIX Annual award of the Japan Chopin Association (1993) and the 1994 Cultural Arts Support Award of the City of Yokohama. An associate professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts, she remains active as a concert pianist.

She performed in Cairo with violinist Tomoko Kato on November 24, 2000 at the Small Hall of the Cairo Opera House
Cairo Opera House
The Cairo Opera House , part of Cairo's National Cultural Center, is the main performing arts venue in the Egyptian capital. Home to most of Egypt's finest musical groups, it is located on the southern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile River, in the Zamalek district west of and near downtown...

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