Ayano Kataoka
Rebonds
Focus Day Performance
Thursday, 3:00 p.m.

A native of Japan, Ms. Kataoka began her marimba studies at age five, and percussion at fifteen. She started her performing career as a marimbist with a tour of China at the age of nine. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts Music, a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory, and an Artist Diploma from Yale University School of Music where she studied with Robert van Sice. She appeared at PASIC in 2005 to give the U.S. premiere of “… As If Time Would Heal by Its Passing” for solo marimba by Stuart Saunders Smith. She was the first percussionist to be chosen for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, a three-season residency program for emerging artists offering high-profile performance opportunities in collaboration with The Chamber Music Society. Ms. Kataoka joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008.

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