Description
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 7PM
Venue: MUSE Sturgeon Bay
Directions: 330 Jefferson Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235. On the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Street in downtown Sturgeon Bay.
Phone: 920-333-2859
Email: tickets@musesturgeonbay.com
Program:
“The Kingdom Walled in White”
Edison Denisov—Signes en blanc
Béla Bartók—Etude Sz. 72 No. 2
Pierre Boulez—Incises
Pierre Jodlowski—Séries Blanche
Maurice Ravel—La Valse
Claude Debussy—Prelude, Book I No. 6, “Des pas sur la neige”
About the Artist:
Versatile in repertoire across different periods and styles, Koki Sato is a classical pianist with
interdisciplinary interests. As an advocate of new music and its potential to expand the
boundaries of classical music, Koki is a founder of the University of Minnesota New Music
Ensemble and was featured by Minnesota Public Radio. His credits include the world premiere
of the new arrangement for Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, the world premiere of Leonardo
Marino’s Memories of Things Unheard, the US premiere of Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber’s Sept
exceptions, and the US premiere of Atsuhiko Gondai’s Cendres Lumineuses, among others. His
passion for community engagement through music, furthermore, led him to such collaborative
projects as the Out and About Outreach Program at the Saint Paul Conservatory of Music, the
Music under the Dome Concert Series at Coca-Cola Space Science Center, and the opening
performance at the Japanese Society of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
A first-prize winner of competitions including the Schubert Club Competition, Atlanta Music
Club Scholarship Audition, Schwob School of Music Concerto Competition, and Student Music
Competition of Japan, Koki appeared as a soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic, Sendai
Philharmonic, and Schwob Philharmonic. He also performed with the Toho Gakuen Orchestra
conducted by Leon Fleischer at the conclusion of the workshop produced by Suntory Hall and
Carnegie Hall. His participation in music festivals includes Klangspuren Schwaz as a member of
the Klangspuren International Ensemble Modern Academy, the Oxford Piano Festival, the
International Keyboard Institute and Festival, the Kirishima International Music Festival, and the
Oh My Ears New Music Festival.
Born in Tokyo, Koki received the prestigious Woodruff Award for his undergraduate studies with
Alexander Kobrin and Tatiana Muzanova at Columbus State University. He is currently an ABD
doctoral candidate studying with Alexander Braginsky at the University of Minnesota, where he
also completed his master’s.
