The Japanese radio station NHK broadcasts Kotaro's playing (Albeniz, Balakirev) and interview in the program "Meikyoku Recital" today from 7:20p.m. to 9p.m.(in Japanese time).

Kotaro's solo recital at the Saitama Arts Theater was selected as one of the classical concerts top 10 in the year 2009 in the Japanese music magazine "ONGAKU NO TOMO".

On December 17th at 4p.m., the France Musique will broadcast the concert at the Radio France on November 29th in memory of the 100th death anniversary of Isaac Albeniz. "Iberia" will be performed by Aldo Ciccolini, Kotaro Fukuma, Hervé Billaut, Miguel Ituarte “ Live streaming here:
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Kotaro appeared in two of the Japanese monthly musical magazines "Chopin" and "Bravo".
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The French radio station France Musique broadcasts the concert of the Festival d’Auvers-Sur-Oise today from 4p.m. to 5:40p.m. (in French time), where Kotaro played the Bartok’s second piano concerto with the Orchestre national d’Ile de France and Mr.Dmitry Yablonsky. You can hear the broadcast through live-streaming at
http://players.tv-radio.com/radiofrance/playerfrancemusique.php

The South African radio station Fine Music Radio will broadcast some of the piano pieces from Kotaro’s Takemitsu recording today from 8p.m. to 10p.m.(in local time) in the program “Composer of the Week”, presented by Mr. Peter Klatzow. You can hear the broadcast through live-streaming at
• http://www.fmr.co.za

The Japanese monthly music magazine Ongakutomo has a special issue on the 300th anniversary of the piano instrument. This includes an interview with Kotaro along with 67 other pianists. Here is a link to the article in Japanese:
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The American radio station WKCR will feature Kotaro’s Takemitsu recording and his interview during the Morning Classical program on Monday 13th July from 9:30a.m. to 12p.m. (NY time). You can hear the broadcast through live-streaming at
• wkcr.org

Ulugbek Palvanov and Kotaro were highly acclaimed at the new Piano Salon Christophori with Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos No.1 and 2 in two pianos version. Now they're planning to play his rest of piano concertos in December!

Kotaro had a great success in Auvers-Sur-Oise, playing the Bartok’s 2nd Piano Concerto, and 2 encores!

Kotaro had a standing ovation in his recital in honor of the 100th birth anniversary of Isaac Albeniz at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, organized by Fundacion Albeniz!

Kotaro's website has been renewed!

Kotaro's live performance at the Chicago Cultural Center was broadcast by WFMT.