Naoko Christ-Kato
Piano
Naoko Christ-Kato was born in Yokohama, Japan, and studied piano at the Tokyo College of Music. She continued her studies with Konrad Meister in Hanover, and later at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Manfred Fock, where she completed her postgraduate studies with the Artistic Concert Examination.
She is a prizewinner of the Young Artist Piano Concours Tokyo and the Best Players Contest in Japan. In 2015, she founded the Gernsheim Duo with the soprano Anna Gann. Since then, she has been committed to the discovery and performance of works by forgotten and persecuted Jewish composers. In 2019, the duo’s first CD, Verborgene Schätze (Hidden Treasures), was released by Genuin, featuring 22 piano songs by Friedrich Gernsheim as world premiere recordings.
Concerts have taken the duo as far as Japan. In 2023, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK and NHK World featured the duo’s work on forgotten Jewish composers. Naoko Christ-Kato maintains a busy concert schedule as a soloist, a partner in song recitals, a chamber music partner in various formations, and a participant in collaborative projects with artists from diverse disciplines. In 2024, she premiered the suite Waldminiaturen (Forest Miniatures) by the American composer Stanley Grill (*1953), which was composed for her. Her CD In the Forest was released in November 2024. Naoko Christ-Kato has received scholarships from the German Music Council (2022) and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia (2025).
Picture: Maria Liebig
The artist's homepage: 
https://www.christ-kato.com/
Naoko Christ-Kato was born in Yokohama, Japan, and studied piano at the Tokyo College of Music. She continued her studies with Konrad Meister in Hanover, and later at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Manfred Fock, where she completed her postgraduate studies with the Artistic Concert Examination.
She is a prizewinner of the Young Artist Piano Concours Tokyo and the Best Players Contest in Japan. In 2015, she founded the Gernsheim Duo with the soprano Anna Gann. Since then, she has been committed to the discovery and performance of works by forgotten and persecuted Jewish composers. In 2019, the duo’s first CD, Verborgene Schätze (Hidden Treasures), was released by Genuin, featuring 22 piano songs by Friedrich Gernsheim as world premiere recordings.
Concerts have taken the duo as far as Japan. In 2023, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK and NHK World featured the duo’s work on forgotten Jewish composers. Naoko Christ-Kato maintains a busy concert schedule as a soloist, a partner in song recitals, a chamber music partner in various formations, and a participant in collaborative projects with artists from diverse disciplines. In 2024, she premiered the suite Waldminiaturen (Forest Miniatures) by the American composer Stanley Grill (*1953), which was composed for her. Her CD In the Forest was released in November 2024. Naoko Christ-Kato has received scholarships from the German Music Council (2022) and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia (2025).
Picture: Maria Liebig
The artist's homepage: https://www.christ-kato.com/
The artist's homepage: https://www.christ-kato.com/
2 albums released by GENUIN classics
with Naoko Christ-Kato
Verborgene Schätze
Lieder von Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916)
Gernsheim-Duo
Naoko Christ-Kato Piano
Anna Gann Soprano
GEN 19662 – 4.10.2019