青柳いづみこ(あおやぎ・いづみこ ピアニスト・文筆家)

安川加壽子、ピエール・バルビゼの各氏に師事。フランス国立マルセイユ音楽院首席卒業、東京藝術大学大学院博士課程修了。平成元年度文化庁芸術祭賞。演奏と文筆を兼ねる稀有な存在として注目を集め、これまでリリースした17枚のCDのうち15枚が「レコード藝術」特選盤。「翼の生えた指」で吉田秀和賞、「青柳瑞穂の生涯」で日本エッセイストクラブ賞、「6本指のゴルトベルク」で講談社エッセイ賞、CD「ロマンティック・ドビュッシー」でミュージックペンクラブ賞受賞。近著に「音楽で生きて行く！」(アルテスパブリッシング)、CDに「6人組誕生！」(コジマ録音)。日本演奏連盟、日本ショパン協会理事、大阪音楽大学名誉教授。

Izumiko Aoyagi, pianist and writer

She studied with Kazuko Yasukawa and Pierre Barbizet. After her musical studies at the Marseille Conservatoire, she received a doctorate in Science and the Arts from the National Univeristy of Fine Arts in Tokyo. She also won the Festival of Arts prize from the Japanese Ministry of Culture in 1990.

As a concert pianist and a writer, she has attracted the attention of the public through excellent multi-faceted performances in her parallel careers. She has to date recorded 17 CDs, of which 15 have been nominated ‘Special Choice of the Month’ by the classical music review magazine, Rekodo Geijutsu.

In her capacity as a writer, she received the 9th Hidekazu Yoshida prize in 1999 with her biography of her Professor of Piano, Kazuko Yasukawa: Winged Fingers. She also received the 49th Essayists’ Prize for the biography of her grandfather, the writer Mizuho Aoyagi. The 25th Kodansha Essayist Prize was given to her for her book: The Goldberg Variations with Six Fingers. She also received the 23rd Music Pen Club prize for her album, Romantic Debussy.

She is a member of the administrative committee of Japan Federation of Music and Frederic Chopin Society in Japan and Professor emeritus at the Osaka University of Fine Arts. Her official website is https://ondine-i.net

谷川賢作（たにかわ・けんさく 作曲家・ピアニスト）

1960年東京生まれ。ジャズピアノを佐藤允彦に師事。演奏家として、現代詩をうたうバンド「DiVa」ハーモニカ奏者続木力とのユニット「パリャーソ」、また父である詩人の谷川俊太郎と朗読と音楽のコンサートを全国各地で開催。80年代半ばより作・編曲の仕事をはじめ、映画「四十七人の刺客」「竜馬の妻とその夫と愛人」NHK「その時歴史が動いた」テーマ曲等。88、95、97年に日本アカデミー賞優秀音楽賞受賞。音楽を担当した最新映画「のさりの島」（監督・山本起也）「僕は猟師になった」（監督・川原愛子）「おかあさんの被爆ピアノ」（監督・五藤利弘）全国公開予定。

谷川賢作オフィシャルサイト http://tanikawakensaku.com/

Kensaku Tanikawa, Composer and Pianist

Born in 1960, and studied jazz piano under Masahiko Satoh. As a performer, he organizes concerts throughout Japan; “DiVa”, the trio band that sing contemporary poems, “Palhaco”, the unit with the harmonica player Chikara Tsuzuki, and he works with his father Shuntaro Tanikawa to bring the collaboration of reading and music.