Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting was born in Yokohama, Japan, and completed her piano studies at the Tokyo Conservatory.Further studies took her to Germany at the Detmold University of Music and the Robert Schumann University inDsseldorf. Her teachers include Roberto Szidon, Detlev Kraus, Naoyuki Taneda and Willem Brons. Her concertactivities have taken her to Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan.With this third recital album, Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting takes up selected works by Frdric Chopin. With the famousetudes, the nocturnes and waltzes, different moods are singled out and compare so that an independent Chopin portraitis drawn.