Junko Kobayashi was born in Japan, and has given concerts in four continents, as well as all over Great Britain. She has played chamber music with Nigel Kennedy, has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and has appeared on both German and American television.

 

Her repertoire extends from Bach to the twenty-first century and includes music by the multi-talented Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. She is chair of the Takemitsu Society, which she founded. In 2007- 8 she played a series of sonatas entitled Later Mozart - Early Beethoven at the Royal Academy of Music, and in Autumn 2008 she played a highly successful concert at the Wigmore Hall, principally devoted to Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt. In her CD - “Nocturnes” (quartz QTZ2004), she plays nocturnes by Chopin, Debussy, Fauré and Satie. She is embarking on a new series principally devoted to Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy.