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Show I Pianist to perform since she was 10 years old, has played many benefit concerts for ward and branch building funds in Japan and New York City. Her only previous performance in Salt Lake City was in 1966 at the MIA June Conference's Young Artists Competition. All tickets for her campus concert con-cert are $2 and are on sale in advance at the Lectures and Concerts Con-certs office, Annex 1199, and at the door, said Paul Cracroft, Lectures and Concerts director. Miss Yoshie Akimoto, winner tlk of the International Bach Piano ampetition in 1963, will play a i :oncert in the Art and Architec-" Architec-" we Center auditorium on Jan. 7, K it 8: 15 p.m. 1 The Lectures and Concerts of-. of-. 3ce of the Division of Continuing ' 1 Education will sponsor the event. x' Since making her debut at the n's'; a of 13 with the Osaka Phil-iau Phil-iau 'irmonic Symphony Orchestra, lliss Akimoto has performed "s 1 'idely in Japan. She has played . sitals, appeared with major ;' shestras and performed on radio iid television in Kyoto, Sapporo, !' i'amagata, Kobe, Niigata, Kofu, " iakasaki, Banshu, Tokyo and 'latsumoto, which is Salt Lake ' '' "ity's "sister city". ! ,'- Long recognized in Japan as 1,ies . k of the finest young musicians ;eJt' -;er produced there, she has ejri "udied with Japan's foremost ?ano teacher, Teiichi Higashi. SJI,1! Miss Akimoto, a "Mormon" iidlc |