Hideo Saito, who was the professor teaching a great conductor Seiji Ozawa, when had heard Rinko Kobayashi playing A-dur piano concert by Liszt, said: 'She is one of the very rare solo artists who can conduct the orchestra only with their charisma'.
Among Rinko Kobayashi's first professors were Motonari Iguchi, Mieczysław Munza and Edward Auera i Andrzej Jasiński.
Her first piano successes came in early 70's when she was awarded at NHK-Mainichi Music Competitions in 1973 and the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition what was also a starting point for her international career.
She has been giving recitals and playing with orchestras virtually in all European countries, at Wigmore Hall in London, the special concert for the 50th Anniversary of the Chopin Society in Warsaw, the solemn concert on the occasion of the official visit of the Queen of Denmark Margerete II to Poland, and she has also participated in the International Meisterkonzerte series in Vienna, to name only a few. She has also played at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall where she got standing ovation from the full house.
From 1987 until its dissolution, she had been the soloist for the Warsaw Radio and TV Chamber Orchestra. Regular annual tours throughout Poland and frequent visits to her native Japan add up to her schedule of over 50 concerts a year.
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