Yoko Nishii meeting her numerous colleagues and friends in Croatia
Oraj is a nice village above the town of Lovran with spectacular view to the sea.

Yoko Nishii preparing her piano program for her friends in Villa Astra in the town of Lovran.

graduate piano studies at the Ino Mirkoviæ High Music School in 2000.
In the first row, Natasha and Volodimir Balyk, distinguished musicians living in the town of Lovran.
Her host was Vjeko Martinko, director of Villa Astra (standing behind the table).

who was the first person that she met in Croatia.
| Yoko Nishii’s piano concerts in Croatia in September 2016
Rovinj – èetvrtak 8. rujna u 20.30 sati Sisak – srijeda 14. rujna u 19:30 sati Vinkovci – subota 17. rujna u 20 sati Cavtat – utorak 20. rujna u 20:30 sati Kotor (Crna Gora) – èetvrtak 22. rujna u 20 sati Ludbreg – èetvrtak, 29. rujna u 19 sati Zapre¹iæ – subota 1. listopada Program A €‘Rovinj Robert Schumann (1810-56): Kreisleriana Op.16 Program B Dora Pejaèeviæ (1885-1923): Rose  YOKO NISHII, glasovir U samo dvije godine zavr¹ava èetverogodi¹nji studij (2000.), potom posti¾e stupanj magistra glazbene umjetnosti (srpanj 2001.), te nastavlja usavr¹avanje na poslijediplomskom studiju na Muzièkoj akademiji u Zagrebu kao stipendistica japanske Vlade (2005. – 2007.) – sve u klasi Jevgenija Zarafiantsa, kojemu je bila i asistentica na Visokoj ¹koli “€œIno Mirkoviæ” (2001. – 2003.). Sada predaje na Umjetnièkoj akademiji u Aichiju u Japanu. Pobjednica je i finalistica brojnih meðunarodnih natjecanja. U Hrvatskoj je odr¾ala brojne zapa¾ene solistièke recitale, a nastupala je i u Italiji, Sloveniji te u Japanu. Ustrajno radi na istra¾ivanju i promociji skladatelja i glazbe iz Hrvatske. U veljaèi 2015. objavila je prvi CD u svijetu s cjelovitim glasovirskim opusom Dore Pejaèeviæ u izdanju japanskih diskografskih kuæa “Herb Classics”€ i u rujnu 2015. je odr¾ala 11 koncertnih turneja u Hrvatskoj u povodu 130. godi¹njice roðenja Dore Pejaèeviæ. YOKO NISHII, piano |
Yoko Nishii playing Rose in the Dora Pejaèeviæ memorial room of the Pejaèeviæ Palace in the town of Na¹ice, on Dora’s piano.

Photo by Elizabeta Dra¹koviæ, 1912. Source www.mgz.hr
Dora Pejaèeviæ (10 September 1885 — 5 March 1923): Walzer-Capricen, Suite for Piano, Op. 28, written in 1910. Performed by Yoko Nishii in 2013 (live)
These excellent inventive little piano pieces, in the form of a piano suite, are a high-point in the solo-piano oeuvre of Pejaèeviæ.
They are full of imagination; a listener will be surprised by how different of character they are,
even though most of them don’t exceed 1-2 minutes in length.


Delicate origami work for Lidija and Nata¹a under the guidance of Yoko Nishii


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Announcement of Yoko Nishii’s concert in Rovinj.

Rovinj, Croatia. Photo by Yoko Nishii, Japan.


Rovinj

Announcement of Yoko Nishii’s concert in the town of Sisak near Zagreb

Yoko Nishii in the town of Sisak near Zagreb, in the local synagogue.

Yoko-san near the Kupa river in Sisak

Yoko-san in a restaurant in Sisak: smuð (perch fish) for four people. Behind her Mr. Milan Lavrnja and his wife Marina.

Announcement of Yoko Nishii’s concert in Vinkovci


Immediately after the concert in Vinkovci

Yoko Nishii in Vinkovci, among swans.

Yoko Nishii in the town of Cavtat near Dubrovnik, participating at the Epidaurus Festival. Paintings by Luce Ðura¹.

Cavtat and its breathtaking surroundings

Ivana Marija Vidoviæ, the founder and director of the Epidaurus Festival in Cavtat, Croatia, with Yoko Nishii of Japan,
both wonderful pianists and great interpretors of pianistic oeuvre of Dora Pejaèeviæ, the first significant Croatian woman composer.

From right to left: Yoko, Ivana Marija, her mother Franica Vidoviæ-Kramups and Luce Ðura¹ (painter) in good spirits, immediately after Yoko’s concert in Cavtat.

The City of Dubrovnik, one of the most beautiful cities on the Mediterranean. Photo by Yoko Nishii.

Two islets, Sv. Juraj and Gospa od ©krpjela, in front of the town of Perast, in the Kotor bay, Boka kotorska. Photo by Yoko Nishii.
Gospa od ©krpjela (Lady of the Rock) is an artificial islet with a Catholic church on it, containing valuable works of art of
distinguished Croatian painter Tripo Kokolja (1661-1713).


Yoko Nishii in Budapest, with a gift from Dr. Gordan Grliæ Radman, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to Hungary: Croatian – Hungarian Dictionary.
The concert hall was stuffed with attendants including many Croatians living in Hungary.
| Japanska pijanistica Yoko Nishii izvela djela Dore Pejaèeviæ u Budimpe¹ti Na inicijativu Veleposlanstva RH u Budimpe¹ti, a u suradnji s Veleposlanstvom Japana u Budimpe¹ti, u dvorani maðarskog Muzeja glazbene povijesti, odr¾an je 27. rujna 2016. solistièki koncert japanske pijanistice Yoko Nishii. Kuriozitet ovog kulturnog projekta, kako su to istaknuli i domaæini, vlp. Gordan Grliæ Radman i njegov japanski kolega Junichi Kosuge u svom obraæanju nazoènima, jest èinjenica da on predstavlja svojevrsnu poveznicu triju dr¾ava: hrvatske, japanske i maðarske. Pijanistièki koncert Yoko Nishii, ovom prigodom, obuhvatio je kompozicije hrvatske skladateljice Dore Pejaèeviæ, japanskog Hisatada Otaka, nezaobilaznog Ferenca LisztaÂÂÂÂÂ te èuvene preludije Sergeija Rachmaninoffa. ![]() Inscription on the building of Croatian kindergarten, primary school,
gymnasium and Collegium in Budapest, Hungary, where Yoko Nishii was lodged. Yoko Nishii roðena je u Iseu, u Japanu, a nakon ¹to je diplomirala na sveuèili¹tu u Tokiju francusku knji¾evnost, 1998. upisala je Muzièku akademiju Ino Mirkoviæ u Lovranu. Od 2005.-2007. polaznica je naprednog studija na Muzièkoj akademiji u Zagrebu. Trenutaèno poduèava na umjetnièkoj akademiji u Japanu. Odr¾ala je brojne solo recitale i dobitnica je vi¹e nagrada, i to u Hrvatskoj, Sloveniji, Italiji te dakako Japanu. Aktivno radi na istra¾ivanju i upoznavanju hrvatskih skladatelja i njihove glazbe. U veljaèi 2015. objavila je prvi japanski CD u svijetu pod naslovom “Herb Classics”, a koji ukljuèuje kompletna solo klavirska djela Dore Pejaèeviæ. U rujnu 2015. odr¾ala je turneju od 11 koncerata diljem Hrvatske, u povodu 130. roðendana Dore Pejaèeviæ. ![]() Nakon koncerta, dva su veleposlanstva, hrvatsko i japansko, priredili domjenak na kojemu se slu¾ilo japanski sake i hrvatsko vino te pr¹ut, sir i masline. Svoju potporu dalo je i predstavni¹tvo „Mlinar“ u Maðarskoj ponudom asortimana svojih pekarskih proizvoda. Na taj je naèin kulturni dogaðaj dobio i zamjetnu dimenziju gastronomske promocije Republike Hrvatske. ![]() Yoko Nishii with Marin Skenderoviæ, the head of the
Croatian National Tourist Board in Hungary Izvor hu.mvep.hr |

Yoko Nishii with Marina ©ikora, the first secretary of Croatian ambassador,
by an Easter egg in front of Croatian Embassy in Budapest.
Yoko Nishii with (left to right) H.E. Mr. Junichi Kosuge, Japanese Ambassador to Hungary, H.E.ÂÂÂÂÂ Dr. Ralph Scheide, AustrianÂÂÂÂÂ Ambassador to Hungary,

In front of the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Budapest.
Photo by the courtesy of Yoko Nishii.
Announcement of Yoko Nishii’s concert in Ludbreg.
Drawing of Ludbreg from 1895
Announcement of Yoko Nishii’s concert in Zapre¹iæ near Zagreb.
Yoko Nishii in Zapre¹iæ
Dr. Zvonimir Mariæ (former Croatian diplomat in Hungary and Slovakia; [PDF]), a Catholic priest, Yoko Nishii, Dr. Andjelko Mijatoviæ (Croatian historian),
at the Chapel of the Queen of Croatians on the mount Medvednica near Zagreb

The ceiling of the chapel is decorated with Coats of Arms of various Croatian regions, cities and towns
Yoko Nishii with Alemka Hazler, organist at the chapel (and literary translator), in a friendly chat in Japanese!
The chapel, very popular among montaineers, has been completed in 1933.
On the upper left corner, a shield representing Croatian Coat of Arms.


Beautiful decorations inspired by Croatian pre-Romanesque art from the end of 8th to 11th centuries.
Yoko Nishii, Japanese pianist, Dr. Zvonimir Mariæ (former Croatian diplomat) and Dr. Anðelko Mijatoviæ (Croatian historian),
in the parish hall of the Chapel of the Queen of Croatians.
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