1. biografia

[amministratore_1]

Kaori OKATANI
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cap, luogo (Provincia), Francia
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mail: parispariefrjp@yahoo.co.jp
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luogo e data di nascita: Wakayama (Giappone), 1971


Kaori Okatani begins to learn music at the age of 4. When 6 years old, she begins to play the piano. At the age of 13, she plays J.HAYDN's Piano Concerto with Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (Dir. Kazuhiko Komatsu).
She obtains a Bachelor of Music (Composition major) at Kobe Jogakuin University in Japan.
Kaori Okatani obtains the "Diplome Superieur de Composition" (in a graduate Master's course) in Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. After graduating, she studies the composition in the class of Perfectionnement (correspond to Doctral course in Japan) of the same Ecole. She is one student of Yoshihisa Taira and Allain Gaussin.
She obtains the 1st medal of the piano with one assent of judges in Conservatoire International de Paris.
In addition to composition, she also studies orchestration, solfege, analysis,
accompaniment, composition of movie music and direction in Paris.
Her piece of movie music is recorded by Octuor de France in Paris.
Kaori Okatani 's pieces (include commissioned pieces) are first performed by Orchestre de Flutes Francais, Ensemble Octandre, Ensemble EAR, Marcel Worms, Shinobu Agnes Fukumoto, Jean Geoffroy, Eleonore Pameijer etc. in Paris, Belgrade, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Barcelona, Bologna, Dublin, the United States of America(Ohio, Connecticut, New York, Wisconsin) and so on.
Her pieces are used for texts at Conservatoire in France.
Selected as a Postmistress during a day of Wakayama Central Post Office in 2003.
Appointed as an administrator of the Association franco-japonaise de Wakayama.