Kanade Joho
began her studies at the Toho School of Music in Tokyo, and in 2004 she graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne with the “Konzertexamen”. In 2002 she was awarded 2nd prize at the Viotti-Valsesia International Piano Competition, in 2004 she won 3rd prize at the Chopin Piano Competition in Cologne, and in 2011 the “Barocksaal” Prize of the Aoyama Foundation in Kyoto for her solo recital. Between 2001 and 2003, she performed as a soloist with the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Riga Philharmonic Orchestra. She gave guest performances, amongst others at the Young Prague International Music Festival and the Hagnauer Klassik Easter Festival. In 2013 Kanade Joho made her debut at the Wiener Musikverein, where she played a solo recital as part of the “Tasten.Lauf” concert series. In 2016 she performed as a duo with her husband, Michael Weingartmann, at the inauguration of the Salzburg Festival. As a chamber musician, she has performed with musicians such as Paul Gulda, Alexander Arenkow and Andreas Röhn and with members of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. She has held teaching appointments as a lecturer at the Universities of Music in Detmold and Cologne as well as instructor and accompanist at numerous master classes.

In addition to her musical career, Kanade Joho devotes herself to poetry and literature. In 2010 and 2013, two volumes of poems entitled “Schrift” (writing) and “Begegnung” (encounter) (KernVerlag) were published in German. (Walter Höferl)