Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Benefit Concert

Sunday, Apr 10, 2011
2pm Koerner Recital Hall,
Vancouver Academy of Music
(1270 Chestnut Street)

Keiko Alexander, pianist, is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York where she studied piano with Sascha Gorodnitzki and Janina Fialkowska, She also studied privately with Bela Siki in Cincinnati and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris until she moved to Vancouver, Canada. In Cincinnati, she taught at the Piano Preparatory Department of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and served as Chair of the Department from 1996 to 2000. While in Cincinnati she formed the Alexis Piano Trio with members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. As a member of trio, she performed throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee. In 2000, she was invited to perform for Hillary Clinton at a Campaign Event in Cincinnati.

Since moving to Vancouver, Keiko Alexander has been active in chamber music, and performs as a member of the Pacific North Trio with violinists Akira Nagai, VSO Associate Concertmaster Emeritus and Seri Nagai in Vancouver and Japan. And as a member of the Vancouver Trio, she has performed at Douglas College, Capilano University, the Vancouver Art Gallery, etc. Keiko Alexander is an accompanist for NAV Chorus and Winds Choir. As a teacher, she held master classes at the BC Conservatory of Music, Tokyo College of Music, and she will start teaching at the VSO School of Music in 2011.

Keiko Alexander has served as an adjudicator for the UBC Concerto Competitions, Burnaby Clef Club, BCRMTA Student Performers Guild Festival, National Music Teachers Association, and BC Conservatory of Music Festival in BC, and for the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, MTNA (University of Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky) and American College of Musicians Piano Guild. She has also adjudicated in Germany for the International Piano Competition for 6 Hands and 8 Hands in Marktoberdorf, and in Tokyo for Japan's Piano Teachers' National Association (PTNA).