Kei Koito

Organist Kei Koito has combined performance, scholarship, and pedagogy in a career that has stretched across several decades. She is a professor of organ at the Lausanne University of Music. Koito was born in Kyoto, Japan, on January 4, 1950. From age six, she took lessons on piano, harpsichord, cello, and voice, making enough progress on the piano that she was able to play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, with the Yokohama City Orchestra as a teen. She played cello in the orchestra of Yokohama's Hiranuma College (a high school). At age 12, she added organ...