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Umi Garrett (born August 15, 2000) is an American pianist. ==Career== Garrett began serious study of the piano under the instruction of Mrs. Itoe Akimoto and Mrs. Yoshie Akimoto. Currently, Garrett studies with Mr. John Perry. In May 2009, Garrett appeared on Nbc's The Ellen DeGeneres Show.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Umi with Ellen )〕 and has been invited to perform at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont as the youngest performer in the 26-year history of the festival. Garrett attended the Sydney International Piano Masterclass Festival in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australia International Piano Master Classes )〕 She also plays the violin and has taken ballet since she was two and a half. Garrett captivated European audiences in August 2009 as a performer in several concerts at the Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VIANDEN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL )〕 and Germany in selected solo and chamber music works.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Umi "Wunderkind" )〕 In 2010, Umi won the Second International Chopin Competition in Hartford, Connecticut with a perfect score from all three judges, and was subsequently invited to perform at Carnegie Hall. Also in 2010, Garrett had an appearance with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Umi Garrett with the Boston POPS )〕 sponsored by NPR's From the top, and her orchestral debut with the Desert Symphony in Palm Desert, California in December 2009, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Umi Garrett Shows How Classical Performance Can be for All Ages )〕 Garrett made her China debut with the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra in 2010 at the age of nine at Wuhan. In 2011 Garrett performed at the Assisi nel Mondo Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Assisi nel Mondo Festival )〕 Garrett has performed with the Charlotte Symphony in Florida, Thayer Symphony in Massachusetts, Saddleback Symphony in California, Indiana Chamber Orchestra in Indianapolis, and the Missouri Symphony in Columbia. On March 2012 Umi Garrett performed at The International Piano Stars Festival in Latvia being the youngest performer in the festival's history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Piano Stars Festival in Latvia )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Piano Stars Festival in Latvia, News on TV )〕 This year she performed again at the Assisi nel Mondo Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Assisi nel Mondo Festival )〕 Umi Garrett created a special concert series called "Kizuna Concert Series" to visit people in Tohoku, Japan, where the Tsunami happened in 2011. She had 4 concerts in Tohoku in March 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kizuna Concert Series AJL )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kizuna Concert Series )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Umi Garrett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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