Kazuko Tanosaki, a first-prize winner of the La Jolla Young Artists Competition (CA), has performed as a guest artist at the Piano Panorama of Twentieth Century Music in Rotterdam, Holland, on French National TV, with I Musici de Montreal, and as a concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony, and Hamilton College Orchestra on their tour of Romania and Bulgaria. As a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo, active since 1982, she has performed recitals in Europe, Australia, Japan, and the United States, including concerts at the American Academy in Rome, the Camargo Foundation (France), Lincoln Center (NYC), the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), the Tokyo American Center (Japan), and at international new music festivals in Melbourne, Kobe, Kyoto, and Sendai. Ms. Tanosaki holds a B.A. from the Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo), M.A. from UC San Diego, and DMA from the Eastman School of Music.