青柳いづみこ(あおやぎ・いづみこ ピアノ・トーク)

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19枚のCDのうち17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)、「阿佐ヶ谷アタリデ大ザケノンダ」（平凡社）、CDに「海」(ottava)、「物語」(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, piano and talk

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 19 CDs, of which 17 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

工藤あかね（くどう・あかね ソプラノ）

東京藝術大学卒業。サントリー芸術財団サマーフェスティバル、Tokyo experimental Festival、Tête à Tête The Opera Festival（ロンドン）、ダ・ヴィンチ音楽祭in川口、テッセラ音楽祭などに出演。数多くの初演を行う一方、ヴィエルヌ、シュルホフ、ウルマンらの演奏機会の希少な佳曲や、サティ「ソクラテス」、シェーンベルク「架空庭園の書」、「グレの歌」（第一部全曲）、「月に憑かれたピエロ」、メシアン「ハラウィ」などの大規模声楽作品も手がける。第１回一柳慧コンテンポラリー賞受賞。妻役で出演したフランチェスカ・レロイ「THE 鍵 KEY」が第19回佐治敬三賞。

Akane Kudo, Soprano

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts . Won the highest award at "Fresh Concert" by Japan-Austria Cultural Society .At the same year, delegated to International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition for Singing (Athens, 2003). Won the Toshi Ichiyanagi contemporary Prize in 2016 .She has performed as Wife in Francesca le Lohé 's Site- specific Opera "THE KEY" which won the Keizo Saji award (2020). Performed at Suntory Foundation for Arts' Summer Festival ,Tokyo Experimental Festival, Da Vinci Music Festival in Kawaguchi and so on. Sung Pierrot Lunaire by A.Schönberg at Tessera Music Festival "Atarashii Mimi" this spring. Besides the traditional repertoires including E. Satie, L. Vierne, O.Messiaen, E.Schulhoff,Viktor Ullmann,she gives numerous performances of World/Japan premier works.