https://www.norikokawai.com/as-teacher daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/40f785f3-39bc-49af-bb34-5e88d08cce6e/_41A1353.jpg as teacher “I have known Noriko Kawai for about 15 years, from the time that she became my colleague at the University of Minnesota. Noriko is a superb artist and wonderful teacher: a combination that is exceedingly rare. Her range as a performer is simply stunning, spanning over 400 years of musical composition, solo, chamber and orchestral. And unlike so many accomplished pianists, Noriko’s expertise does not stop at music from the past. Noriko is internationally admired for her performances some of the most inventive composers of our own time. Noriko is a complete musician. As a teacher, Noriko is a patient, compassionate, and sensitive, and at the same time able to endow students with a sense of high musical excellence. She was beloved by her students at the university and for good reason: Noriko is that rare teacher who while developing a student’s musical technique and sensibility also allows the student to find their own voice, their own musical personality. I have been blessed by having had some extraordinary teachers through the years of my long musical apprenticeship. Later in my career as a music scholar, I was equally blessed to know some of the most accomplished scholars, performers, and composers of the past fifty years, I count Noriko Kawai among that constellation.” Dr. Michael Cherlin Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota https://www.norikokawai.com/as-pianist daily 0.75 2021-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610396496285-CDLU7W5X1MJ8V2PVCNDJ/_41A1226.jpg as pianist https://www.norikokawai.com/listen daily 0.75 2021-01-12 https://www.norikokawai.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610394284460-DGJFTYDSAP99LTGKX1XL/_41A1226-bw.jpg Noriko Kawai Homepage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610394621862-FT048RNCKRY9OOP843I8/Alicante+Fest+06+-+4.JPGThe+credit+Xavi+M.+Mir%C3%B3.jpeg Noriko Kawai Homepage - Performing… In demand as both a soloist and a chamber musician Noriko Kawai is a highly acclaimed pianist of international repute. She has appeared at major music festivals and concert halls throughout the world including the BBC Proms, Southbank centre, and Ars Musica Strasbourg, with some of world’s great orchestras and chamber groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610394684749-VU99REJEW51HIT7VRND2/_41A1405.jpg Noriko Kawai Homepage - Teaching… Through her own teachers she has inherited pedagogical methods and a legacy of performance practice descended from both Chopin and Liszt. Her precise, practical and highly detailed approach to the teaching of pianistic skills sees often instant results in the lessons. Noriko believes passionately in drawing from the student’s their own innate abilities, not only to extend their technical prowess but to develop their own unique voice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610395163772-2P7N98DTHICMH6I47J43/_41A1226.jpg Noriko Kawai Homepage https://www.norikokawai.com/press-quotes daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610397487267-UR8KGMZ6SG6RVYDW27V0/_41A1297.jpg press quotes - “This was a triumphant, superb performance of important, challenging, yet life-affirming music. Noriko Kawai is a magician of the piano.” — Colin Clarke, Seen and Heard International https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610367056834-35N5FZ3OGQK7XWM2FS79/Alicante+Fest+06+-+1-1.JPGThe+credit+Xavi+M.+Mir%C3%B3.jpeg press quotes - “… rich, strange and utterly riveting….. the performances from Kawai have just the right cat-like energy and delicate inwardness.” — Ivan Hewett, BBC Music Magazine https://www.norikokawai.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ffc280bfcd2563393943458/1610397842963-MLDYO6KM8MTWR357H1ZN/_41A1470.jpg Contact