Since achieving her first great success at the Leeds International Piano Competition, Noriko Ogawa has worked with leading orchestras and conductors such as Dutoit, Vanska, Slatkin and Otaka. Ogawa is also a distinguished recitalist and chamber musician, performing with artists such as Evelyn Glennie. In 2001, Ogawa established a piano duo with Kathryn Stott.
Ogawa has been appointed Artist in Residence at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester where she was Artistic Director for the Reflections on Debussy festival, hosted by BBC Philharmonic and Bridgewater Hall from January to June 2012. She is also an exclusive recording artist for BIS Records based in Sweden.
In recognition of Ogawa’s outstanding contribution to the cultural profile of Japan globally, she received the Art Prize from the Japan Ministry of Education in 1999. She has acted as artistic advisor to the MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall in her hometown since 2004. As a writer, Ogawa has completed her first book (published in Japan) and is working on a Japanese translation of Susan Tomes’s Out of Silence: A Pianist’s Yearbook.