Japanese pianist returns home for concert tour

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PARIS (AFP) — Not content with wowing audiences across Europe, Spanish-based pianist Azumi Nishizawa returns to her native Japan this week for a concert tour, including an unprecedented performance at Kyoto's famed Kiyomizu Temple.

The 30-year-old musician will be accompanied by Geneva's Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the orchestra of French-speaking Switzerland with which she regularly tours as soloist.

Nishizawa, who is based in Madrid but also shuttles between Paris and Geneva, will wind up the tour de force Saturday at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan hall, after first performing in Nagoya's Denki Bunka Kaikan and the Kyoto concert hall as well as the Kiyomizu Temple.

Nishizawa, the 2002 winner of the distinction of virtuosity at the Geneva Conservatory, sees the...