Two reviewers recommended Mari Kodama's New Paths as special choice of the month. "Kodama’s mature performance shows her sensitive touch and phrasing. Her refined phrasing and colourful sound are very pleasant. For Brahms’ Theme and Variations, Op.18b, Kodama’s interpretation of the theme makes listeners feel a tingle of anticipation and it is very touching." - [...]
“Mari Kodama seems to have achieved the almost impossible […] Her interpretation shows an extensive wealth of tonal colors. How Mari Kodama looks at all of this musically and pianistically is impressive.” Piano News Magazine, Anja Renczikowski, 2023. Released in 2020, Kaleidoscope – Beethoven Transcriptions is a recording where Mari Kodama interprets individual movements of [...]
"Mari Kodama has long been fascinated by the love, friendship and music of this creative trio, and explores it here from Brahms’s point of view, opening with an energetic account of the Piano Sonata No. 1, which he played for the Schumanns in those early meetings. Robert wrote that the younger composer’s playing made his [...]
Mari Kodama's album New Paths releases on November 18, 2022. "Anyone even remotely familiar with Western music history knows the relationship between Johannes Brahms and the two Schumanns: Robert and Clara. Moreover, it always proves to be an almost ideal starting point for recitals and recordings. Such is the case for Japanese pianist Mari [...]
To be a part of John Neumeier’s new creations is a great inspiration and privilege. He places Beethoven's Sonatas and Symphonies in a new perspective to make us think and rediscover the genius of Beethoven. John's Beethoven Projekt II has been created in 2020, but the Premiere has been postponed several times. After successful [...]
Mari Kodama is now represented by Harrison Parrott for genreal management. The international artist management agency published that they "are thrilled to welcome pianist Mari Kodama to our roster for general management. She is consistently praised for her virtuosity in a wide range of repertoire, including orchestral, chamber and solo works by composers of all periods. She [...]
In August 2022, Mari Kodama visited the Taipei Music Academy & Festival to perform chamber music and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Cho Liang Lin, Carter Brey and TMAF Festival Orchestra lead by Kent Nagano. Cho Liang Lin has created TMAF in 2019 in Taiwan, more information about the academy and the festival can be found [...]
“To record Brahms’s piano music from his youth was an idea I was having since several years. Finally this project around the friendship of Brahms and the Schumanns came to live in Neumarkt/Germany with the great recording team of producer, Erdo Groot and Ientje Mooij and Shunske Yokoyama for the new model of Yamaha concert [...]
Markus Hinterhaeuser and Mari Kodama share a long friendship and often and often exchange musical ideas and projects. On 9 April, this friendship culminated in a concert at Schloss Elmau in the South of Germany where the two artists we were able to share the thoughts and ideas they had about the program together. The [...]
In April 2022 Mari Kodama has played Hans Werner Henze’s Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra under the musical direction of Ryusuke Numajiri in Yokohama’s concert hall in Japan. This was Numajiri’s first concert a the new Music Director of the Orchestra and Henze’s work “was a wonderful discovery [...]