is a Swedish

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musician.

Biography

Born on December 5, 1932, in

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, Germany to a Japanese mother, Toako Ohtsuki, a piano teacher and a Swedish father, Fritz Gösta Georgii-Hemming (1910–1986), an architect and cartoonist educated at the

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. His father, Fritz Georgii-Hemming (1886–1959), was a lawyer (including at the

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) and civil servant, appointed a knight of the

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i Vem är Vem? / Stockholmsdelen 1945 / s 244. The family name derives from the marriage of Hans Hemming (1853–1927), a provincial doctor and Anna Sofia Georgii (1850–1888). The family settled at Shibuya, shortly following which Hemming's parents divorced following the deterioration of their relationship in domestic violence. Hemming was educated in Japan and began learning to play the piano at a young age from her mother. She was identified as a child prodigy and performed her first concert at seventeen. She went to Aoyama Gakuin Senior High School, Aoyama Gakuin Junior High School, Aoyama Gakuin Elementary School. She graduated from the

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music or is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, scul ...

and began her professional career immediately. Hemming received many prestigious honors during this time, including the NHK-Mainichi Music Concour and the Bunka Radio Broadcasting Company Music Prize. She relocated to Germany at the age of 28 to study at the Berlin Institute of Music. During a concert in

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in 1971, Hemming lost her hearing from a bout of high fever. She relocated again to

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to take advantage of its medical facilities. She performed many more concerts throughout continental Europe before returning to Japan in 1995. A documentary that aired in 1999 raised public interest in her music. Her subsequent debut CD, ''La Campanella'', sold over two million copies.http://www.fujiko-hemming.com/global/profile/index.html Hemming performed at

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in New York in June 2001. By 2002, Hemming had performed at every major population center in the world.

Recordings

In 2008, Hemming was signed by Domo Records for the world. In June 2009, Domo Records released five titles from her catalogue in the United States, including "Echoes Of Eternity"; "La Campanella"; "Nocturnes Of Melancholy", Live At Carnegie Hall and Liszt's "Piano Concerto No.1". Four of her CDs have received the Classical Album of the Year award at the Japan Gold Disc Awards. *''Ingrid Fujiko Hemming - The Piano Works'' Decca 2009
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