Kayo Iwama, pianist

American pianist Kayo Iwama has concertized extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan. She has performed to critical acclaim with some of today's most talented young singers in Boston's Jordan Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center, the Théâtre du Châlet in Paris, and Tokyo's Yamaha Hall. Also in demand as a teacher, she is on the faculties of New England Conservatory and the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center. In addition, her teaching has taken her to some of the major universities of the United States to give master classes and performance lectures/demonstrations. A resident of the Boston area, she has been heard numerous times on WGBH radio. Ms. Iwama earned music degrees at Oberlin College and SUNY Stony Brook where she studied with Gilbert Kalish. She has attended the Salzburg Music Festival, the Banff Music Center, the Music Academy of the West, and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she worked with such artists as Margo Garrett, Martin Isepp, Graham Johnson and Martin Katz. She has also been on the music staffs of the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was formerly on the faculty of the Hartt School of Music. Ms. Iwama's debut recording is on the Well-Tempered label, with baritone Christópheren Nomura in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin.