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Sachiko Inoue (Bass Clarinet)

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A gem of a bass clarinet album, radiant, mellow, delicate, warm, beautiful, robust and thoroughly persuasive. Sachiko Inoue’s expressive range and artistry shine in these nine works by composers of her own generation, whose dramatic writing reveals new possibilities in the bass clarinet.Bass clarinet: Sachiko InoueBorn in Obihiro, Hokkaido. She graduated from the music course of the Arts and Culture Programme, Faculty of Education, Sapporo Campus, Hokkaido University of Education, and completed her studies with highest honours at the Sibelius Academy (clarinet) and at the Rotterdam Conservatory (bass clarinet).1997: second prize at the 9th HIMES Competition.1999: appeared in the Sapporo New Artists Concert. 2000: performed with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra at the 100th New Artists Concert of the Japan Federation of Professional Musicians.Second prize at the 2nd Lahti Woodwind