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A native of Asahikawa Hokkaido, Ms. Agehara graduated the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music high school, and also got her Bachelors and Masters degree of music from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She received the Yasuda Seimei Quality of Live Cultural Foundation scholarship, and went abroad to Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary.
In 1981, she was the gold prize winner for the fifth PTNA piano competition level E. In 1989, she won first prize in the 58th Japan Music Competition, also receiving the Nomura Prize and Iguchi Prize. She made her debut at 1991 Japan Chopin Association 147th meeting. She performed concerts in Germany and Hungary. Recently she performed solo recitals in Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Casals hall, participation in the "Salon Concert Series", "Mother's Day Concert" sponsored by Asahi Shimbun at Osaka Festival Hall, chamber music participation at Daiichi Seimei Hall Opening Special Concert, and the Red Brick Music Festival in Hokkaido. She mainly performs in Tokyo and Hokkaido, and she takes an active part in outreach concerts such as teaching and performing in elementary schools.
Ms. Agehara has recorded the "FM Recital" and "Meikyoku Recital" in NHK, and she has performed with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor Kenichiro Kobayashi), Sapporo Symphony Orchestra (conductors Ken Takaseki and Tomomi Nishimoto), and Osaka Symphonica (conductor Thomas Sanderling), and several others.
Three CDs have been released so far from Ongaku no Tomo, one named "Christmas Tree/Liszt", and "Mozart piano concerto no.21 C major, Osaka Festival Live", which was praised as "A natural musical flow, a naive and fresh Mozart", and her most recent album is "Schubert Impromptus".
Sachiko Agehara's fan club (http://soloist.press.ne.jp/agehara/) was erected, and the increasing fans support her powerful musical activities.
Her teachers include Hiroyasu Kawahara, Noriko Ohara, Etsuko Kondo, Noriyuki Miyazawa, Yasuko Nakayama, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Lantosh Ishtvan, and Klaus Schilde.