Atsuko Seta
| Atsuko Seta | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 瀬田 敦子 |
| Pronunciation | Atsuko Seta |
| Born | March 4, 1955 |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Occupation | concert pianist, visiting professor at Music Department, Payap University |
Atsuko Seta (瀬田 敦子 Seta Atsuko) (born March 4, 1955 in Osaka) is a Japanese classical pianist. She is particularly successful in Poland, especially in the southwest of the country, regularly performing with the Sudeten Philharmonic Orchestra in Walbrzych and in her native Japan and in Bulgaria. Seta is a visiting professor at Payap Univertity Division of Music in Thailand.
In 1977 she graduated from the Department of Music, Piano Course, Osaka Kyoiku University. In 1978, she completed a Postgraduate Course, starting her career as a pianist, mentored by Argentine pianist Eduardo Delgado. She also studied at the International Academy Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurre in Sion, Switzerland in 1991 and has performed concertos in the country.
In 1996, Seta won the top prize of the Masterplayers International Music Competition in Italy and completed a master course in Flaine International Music Academy in France, also studying at the Kyoto France Music Academy. Since 1997, she has performed in Europe every year, especially piano concertos, with the Sudeten Philharmonic in Poland.
Soon after she was awarded the Masterplayers Prize in 1996, on March 20, 1997 Seta performed with her home orchestra Senri Civic Symphony Orchestra, which is called Senri Phylharmonia Osaka presently. Among the trio, the volcalist was Ai Fujiki, Seta and Fusako Tamura was on piano, Akiko Yui on clarinet, and Shungo Moriyama conducted Morzart, San Sans, and Greeg. Their 91st concerto, titled Mytown Concerto no.9 was at a hall in Seta's home town in northern Osaka.
It was in 2003 and Atsuko Seta received the Music Critic Club Prize, which has been given to the most active musician in West Japan. In 2004, she received the IBLA Grand Prize Ginastera Special Award in Italy. Seta respected Alberto Ginastera, so that during her visit to the United States in April 2005, she gave Ginastera recitals at the Yamaha Center on April 10, then at Carnegie Hall and New York University on April 11 during which she performed Ginastera Sonata No.1 amongst others. She performed that repertoire with the Sudeten Philharmonic in Walbrzych on September 29, 2006. A music festival with contest in Thailand is named the Chiang Mai Ginastera International Music Festival which Seta started in 2016.
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