It is with great pleasure that we announce the return of Sachiko Kato to the One-Coin Concert for ALL for the first time in four years. The recital, which was planned in the meantime, had to be postponed several times due to the Corona disaster.

Sachiko Kato moved to the United States with her parents when she was a teenager. She studied piano first at Southern California University and then at the Juilliard School and now resides in Washington Heights, a hilly neighborhood on the northern edge of Manhattan, near the Cloisters, an art museum modeled after a medieval European monastery. This is a quiet neighborhood in Manhattan where many intelligent and artistic people live. He has a vintage Steinway piano in his room and has been active in performing and teaching for many years.

She has performed at the One-Coin Concert for ALL three times, and will have performed six times if you include this salon concert at B-tech Japan and the online recording at Klavierhaus in New York. The first concert featured Brahms' last works and Bach's Goldberg Variations. The next concert was an all-Chopin program. It is also very rich. The third one is a very profound Debussy and Ravel. From her program building, we can see that Sachiko Kato is, whether fortunately or unfortunately, a pianist who can throw only fast and direct pitches, and always has a world without compromise or deception. To catch her direct pitches, listeners need to have thick mittens. To listen to Sachiko Kato's performance is to feel her tremendous zest for life and her way of life, which she squeezes out with all her might, and to be confronted by Sachiko Kato, who continues to look inside herself.

Sachiko Kato, who returned to the U.S. after performing Chopin at the One-Coin Concert for ALL on February 19, 2017, became seriously ill. What was it that sustained her to the end as she peered into the abyss of death?

Sachiko Kato was sustained by her piano until the very end to recover. She pushed herself to plan small concerts and uploaded concert scenes to Youtube. At the same time, she continued to write a piano methodology book. Sachiko Kato. But it was not only the piano that supported Sachiko Kato. People she met through music, friends from the conservatory, people she met while walking her dog, the residents of her apartment, and so on all supported her. For the first time, Sachiko Kato realizes that she is loved by all of these people. At a very young age, she realized that the piano was the only thing that could save her in the difficult times that she might face in the future. Through the piano, she has cultivated an attitude of confronting herself. For Sachiko Kato, who has led such an introspective life, becoming aware of the love of others is nothing more than turning the gaze she has always kept on herself to others and, in that moment, the meaning of love seeped into her body quite naturally.

Sachiko Kato returns to us for this time. What a joyous occasion. Let us celebrate with her. The program was "100% Scriabin". Be ready to catch her fast and direct pithes!

Sachiko Kato recitals by the OCCA production

• 2014 Brahms and Bach: A Swan Song at Osaka University Hall

• 2017 Chopin Retrospective at Osaka University Hall

• 2018 Debussy and Ravel: Life and Rebirth at Osaka University Hall

• 2019 Johannes Brahms in his late years at B-tech Japan Salon

• 2021 Hope at Klavierhaus in New York

Sachiko Kato discography by the OCCA production

• CD Sachiko Kato plays Debussy & Ravel 

• CD Sachiko Kato plays Brahms

Sachiko Kato, known for her expressive tone and wide repertoire, has performed extensively as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician throughout North and South America as well as Japan since her debut recital at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 1994.  Her pianism has been featured on premier classical music radio stations such as WQXR, WNYC, KMZT, and WKCR FM.  Her recording of Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations released by Centaur Records received a critical acclaim. She has recorded selections of etudes and preludes by Debussy and Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel and late piano works by Brahms for a new independent label, OCCA, both of which were released in 2019.  In addition, Ms. Kato has published a book on piano practicing called “The Sachiko Method: How to Find the Music Within You” in the same year.

Ms. Kato was born in Osaka, Japan and immigrated to Los Angeles with her family at the age of 14. She graduated from California State University Northridge and then, on scholarship, completed her master’s degree at the Juilliard School. She did further studies in Boston with the famed pianist/teacher Russell Sherman. Ms. Kato lives in New York City and teaches piano widely both privately and at various institutions. Learn more at www.sachikokato.com.