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About Ingrid Fuzjko Hemming
- Ingrid Fujiko (also Fuzjko) von Georgii-Hemming (aka Fujiko Hemming) (??????·???·????), (Japanese name: Otsuki Fujiko (?????)) is a Swedish classical music pianist. Born on December 5, 1932 in Berlin, Germany to a Japanese mother, piano teacher Toako Ohtsuki, and a Swedish father of Russian descent, Fritz Gösta Georgii-Hemming (1910-1986), an architect and cartoonist educated at the Bauhaus.
- His father, Fritz Georgii-Hemming (1886-1959), was a lawyer (including at the Svea Court of Appeal) and civil servant, appointed a knight of the Order of Vasa.
- 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 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 Vienna in 1971, Hemming lost her hearing from a bout of high fever.
- She relocated again to Stockholm, Sweden 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.Hemming performed at Carnegie Hall in New York in June 2001.
- By 2002, Hemming had performed at every major population center in the world.
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