The Japanese pianist Yumiko Matsuda is devoting her debut CD at Gramola to the main representatives of Viennese Classicism: Joseph Haydn’s Sonata in E flat major Hob.XVI: 49, the Sonata in F major KV 332 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor op 27/2 ‘Moonlight’ by Ludwig van Beethoven. Franz Schubert, who together with the late Beethoven is considered a trailblazer to Romanticism and its first representative, is here represented with his Sonata in A major D 664, which closes this recording.

Yumiko Matsuda was born in Tokyo and after 2002 studied piano with Prof. Elisa- beth Dvorak-Weisshaar, Prof. Alexander Jenner, Prof. Jörg Demus and Prof. Paul Badura-Skoda, Modern Music with Prof. Wolfgang Gabriel and chamber music with Prof. Werner Hink. After 2006, she has regularly performed in the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, in the Vienna Musikverein, in the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, in Gasteig in Mu- nich, at the Salzburg Festival, in Germany and Japan. In 2009 and 2010, she was acclaimed for duo concerts with Prof. Werner Hink and sonatas for violin and piano of Viennese Classicism and with Prof. Jörg Demus with the Sonata for 2 Pianos KV 448 by W. A. Mozart. These concerts were also recorded on CD and DVD.