Piano
Biography
Kana Okada played the complete Chopin études as a child; accounts place the performance at twelve or thirteen. Born in Hakodate in 1991, at the keyboard from three and giving recitals from childhood, she moved to France at fifteen and was admitted unanimously to the Paris Conservatoire, where she worked with Frank Braley, Haruko Ueda, Georges Pludermacher, Claire Désert, Itamar Golan and François-Frédéric Guy and took four diplomas between 2010 and 2016. She won first prize at Piano Campus in 2013 and reached the semi-finals of the Queen Elisabeth in the same year, and won first prize at the Francis Poulenc Competition in 2013. Beethoven's Emperor Concerto brought her to Chengdu in 2018. She has appeared with the Belgian National Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony, played chamber music with Frank Braley and taken part in La Folle Journée in Tokyo. Souvenirs, a first album given over to French repertoire, appeared on the Triton label in 2018. In 2016 she reached the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.