We Are Tomodachi Japan and Russia Edition 2016

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11Kyohei SoritaBorn in 1994. In elementary school he was just a typical young boy eager to become a soccer player, but later he took to the piano out of a desire to “give people dreams.” After studying in Russia, he won the Città di Cantù International Piano and Orchestra Competition (Classical Section) in 2015. Sorita rehearses with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra at the Russian International Music Festival in 2015. 1. Chatting over tea with the maestro Mikhail Voskresensky. “I was drawn not only by his piano playing but also by his charming personality,” says Sorita. 2. At the grave of Mstislav Rostropovich, the master cellist and conductor, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, who died in 2007. For Sorita, visiting the graves where Russia’s great musicians rest is one means of getting closer to the Russian musical tradition. 3. In Moscow’s Red Square. 132

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