Piano
Biography:
SOPHIE-MAYUKO COUSIN has performed regularly in renowned concert halls around the world since early childhood. Since the WDR dedicated a program to her composition cycle Tonbilder at the age of eight, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter has been making recordings for leading radio and television stations in Europe and Asia.
At the age of 14, as a winner of the Parke Davis Prize, her first CD recording appeared with the 24 Préludes by Frédéric Chopin. She has appeared at well-known festivals and concert series such as: Salzburg Festival, Tokyo City Opera Hall Series, Albert Concerts Freiburg, Piano Festival Ruhr, Bad Kissinger Music Summer, Raderberg Concerts Cologne (DLF) and Munich Biennale.
Further concert appearances and CD recordings in Asia and Europe are currently on the agenda. Sophie-Mayuko Vetter is now regarded as an exceptionally versatile pianist with a repertoire ranging from early baroque to contemporary music. In addition, she plays the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries on the fortepiano, which gives her renditions of this repertoire on a modern concert grand piano, including the improvisation and the ornamentation, a special historical authenticity.
In close collaboration with the composers, she has premiered numerous works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Peter Ruzicka and Henri Pousseur. Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf gave her his piano concerto Prospero's Epilogue dedicated to which she premiered in 2005 at the Salzburg Festival with the RSO Vienna.
She is also involved as a lecturer in master classes and writes i.a. as a founding member of the renowned magazine »Musik & Aesthetics« (Klett-Cotta-Verlag) regularly publishes interpretation-analytical contributions.
Sophie-Mayuko Vetter was born in Sapporo (Japan) and began taking piano, violin and composition lessons at the age of four. In the years that followed, she composed a series of overtone duets comprising more than 150 manuscript pages, which later also appeared in print. Her father, Michael Vetter, was her mentor in overtone singing and was an important influence on her early musical development. Sophie-Mayuko Vetter studied piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Vitaly Margulis and Peter Feuchtwanger, historical performance practice with Robert Hill and musicology with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf.
Albums:
A Shadow Play / String Quartet No. 4 & no. 7:
