Japanese organist Mari Fukumoto has won First Prize at two of the world’s leading competitions, the 7th International Organ Competition, Musashino Tokyo, and the International Organ Competition of the 62nd Organ Week in Nuremberg. She has also broadcast extensively on German radio. Her wide-ranging programme explores the connections between the works of Bruhns and Buxtehude, J.S. Bach and Grigny, and those of Messiaen and the contemporary Romanian- German composer Michael Radulescu.