東京シンフォニアにてサラ・ビュークナーのピアノ演奏 Mozart Serenade with Sara Davis Buechner

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国際的ピアニストでMtFトランスセクシュアルとしてカミングアウトしている、サラ・デイヴィス・ビュークナーが1月27日(水)、東京シンフォニアとコンサートを予定。アカデミックで保守的と言われている業界で才能を発揮した異色のピアニストの一夜限りのライブを是非チェック！

後日、TWにてビュークナーのスペシャル・インタビューを掲載予定。自身のトランスとしての経験やホモフォビア、トランスフォビア、現在結婚している日本人の妻などについてフランクに語ってもらった。お楽しみに！

●MOZART BIRTHDAY SERENADE
●1月27日(水)
●開場：18:30　開演：19:00
●東京メソニックセンター、ゴールデンホール
（港区芝公園4-1-3　日比谷線・神谷町駅）
●TICKET：　6000円（グループの場合は、１人5500円）
●お問い合わせ：　info@tokyosinfonia.com 　℡(03) 3588-0738
●オフィシャルサイト／www.tokyosinfonia.com
　
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Sara Davis Buechner, a world-renowned American transgendered pianist, will perform three of Mozart's Piano Concertos with Tokyo Sinfonia on January 27th, on the composer's 254th birthday.

●MOZART BIRTHDAY SERENADE
●Wednesday, January 27
●Open 18:30　Start 19:00　(Followed by reception to meet the artists)
●Golden Hall of the Tokyo Masonic Center
Minato-ku, Shibakoen 4-1-3 (Kamiya-cho Station, Hibiya Line)
●Tickets: single 6,000; group 5,500 each (Proceeds go to Freemason charities)
●info@tokyosinfonia.com 　℡ (03) 3588-0738
●www.tokyosinfonia.com

★Coming Soon: an exclusive interview with Sara Buechner on TW! She'll talk about the process of transitioning, homophobia and trans-phobia in America and Japan, her Japanese wife and rebuilding her career to become an inspiration for students and audiences around the world. Please come back and check later!

★On Buechner's background, please click MORE↓

Sara Davis Buechner has loved Mozart since childhood. As a boy named David in Baltimore, Buechner admired Mozart's velvet jackets and frilly blouses and was beaten at school for wearing similar clothes. Buechner spent the next twenty years in the closet, focused building a brilliant career. She graduated from the music program at New York's Julliard School. In 1986, a bronze medal at the Tchaikovsky International Competition--the Olympics of classical music--made her reputation. But hiding her true female identity was taking its toll on Buechner's happiness.

Now, Sara Buechner is out and proud! She underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1998. It was liberating, but the conservative world of classical music was not ready for it.

“I had an agent who no longer seemed to find work for me. Students weren't eager to study with me,” Buechner told Tokyo Wrestling in the interview.

Fortunately, times have changed, and Buechner is once again a sought-after pianist. Her schedule is booked solid this spring with performances in the Asia and the U.S. A professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) since 2003, Buechner is spending a sabbatical year in Japan. She has a second home in Osaka, hometown of her spouse, Kayoko, whom she married in Canada in 2005.

Tokyo Sinfonia's Maestro Robert Ryker says that Buechner's personal life is a non-issue:
“The only thing I'm interested in is her as an artist. She has played with some of the most famous orchestras in the world,” Ryker told TW.

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