Bio

A native of Osaka, Japan, pianist Toko Suzuki has performed in the U.S., Canada, Holland, and Japan. In her teen, she won the first prize at the PTNA (the National Piano Teachers’ Association of Japan) Piano Competition. After receiving her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and Music Education from Kobe College in Japan, Ms. Suzuki came to the U.S. in 1993 on scholarship from the University of Wyoming where she studied piano and composition with Dr. Gary Smart and received Performer’s Certificate. She moved to Rocheste to attend the Eastman School of Music, where she received the Master of Music and the Doctor of Musical Arts with Piano Major and Chamber Music and Accompanying Minor, studying with Prof. Barry Snyder to whom Ms. Suzuki served as a studio teaching assistant.

Toko Suzuki has been active as a soloist and collaborative performer. In 2000, she won a three-year concert grant “Osaka’s Upcoming Young Artist” from the Osaka Prefecture Cultural Organization and gave solo and chamber recitals, including one with the Kobe Chamber Orchestra. She is the founding member of the piano trio, Trio Atlantica, with violinist Laura Motchalov and cellist Luke Pomorski. In summer 2005, the trio gave two innovative concerts at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Brighton, Rochester, where Ms. Suzuki serves as an organist and accompanist since 2004.