Aimi Kobayashi the Happiest Little Pianist

A video just before her debut recital
I love the announcer's voice. She sounds so cute!
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Aimi Kobayashi
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Aimi Kobayashi (小林愛実, Kobayashi Aimi?) is a classical pianist born on September 23, 1995. She lived in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan until February 2007 and now in Tokyo, started studying piano at the age of 3, played with an orchestra at age 7, and has been receiving tutelage from Yuko Ninomiya since 8 years old, and has won the Yamaguchi Prefecture "Glory Culture Prize" three times. Aimi is supported by The American Association for Development of the Gifted and Talented Inc.- a non-profit organization dedicated to helping young classical musicians around the world. You can
* In 2004, she won the Gold prize at 1st and 2nd grade Elementary School level in the 5th International Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA.
* In 2005, she won the first prize in the elementary school division of the Student Music concours of Japan when she was in the fourth grade.
* In 2005, she was invited to play at Salle Cortot and Carnegie Hall.
* In January 2006, she performed at Tokyo Opera City Hall with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.
* On October 29,2006, she performed at Carnegie Hall again.
* On December 24, 2006, she performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 ("Coronation") with Vladimir Spivakov conducting the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and as an encore she played Chopin's 1st Impromptu at Svetlanov Hall(Moscow International House of Music) in Moscow.
* On March 31, 2007, she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at Suntory Hall.
* On April 2,2007, she gave a Debut Recital at the Symphony Hall of Acros Fukuoka.