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.