AKB48's Sakiko Matsui from Team K will release a solo piano album. Matsui has been playing the piano since she was 4 years old and is currently a student at the Tokyo College of Music. She wish to follow in the footsteps of Nao Matsushita who is an alumni at the college. It was announced earlier this year by AKB48's general producer that she will get to release her own piano album. The album which has yet to be titled but will contain 11 tracks and some will be piano renditions of popular AKB48 songs including "Aitakatta", "Heavy Rotation" and "Everyday Kachuusha". It will also contain the song playing in Nissin Cup Noodle's "REAL" line of commercials which was composed by Takayuki Hattori.
Matsui also plays the "Mozart K.576 Piano Sonata #18" in Glico's Ice no Mi "AKB48 Murder Case" commercials.
The album will be released on October 3rd, 2012.
Check out some of the songs below!
Nissin "REAL" Cup Noodle CM feat. Sakiko Matsui
Nissin "REAL" Cup Noodle CM feat. Atsuko Maeda
Glico's Ice no Mi "AKB48 Murder Case" CM
Sakiko Matsui performs "Mozart K.576 Piano Sonata #18"
| Band name | AKB48 |
| Band type | girlband (91 members) |
| Debut | 8 December, 2005 (active) |
| Label | AKS, DefStar Records, King Records/You! Be Cool |
| Official website | http://www.akb48.co.jp/ |
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Love to hear more of her works, sounds great already.
良いな~本当に上手ですね~リストの「超越ETUDE」を弾きたいwwwwell, shes verry good.. but i want to play the tranzendental etude of franz listz^^
wow tahst awesome i want tomplay the piano toooo
envy herr..
i wish that i could play piano
because i want to play mozart too..
Ohmy! When im at age 8 i can play piano,but now idk-_-she's my oshi! thats makes me want to play piano again
wow!!! makes me wish i cud play piano!
thats cool love the piano
Aww can't wait. I'm glad to see someones talents be showcased.
YESSSS I'm soo happy for her!! She is amazing!
I'm glad AkiP decided to let the world see one of the somewhat "hidden" members' huge talent. Even if you're not an AKB fan, if you're a fan of the sound of the piano, I'm sure this is definitely something you should check out when it releases!! I'm looking forward to this
its about time they do something about that talent of hers.. it would be an utter waste if this never happen.
she plays piano so well

i would like to listen to the album when it comes out, it sounds good
Hoaaa kakoii nee
I'll be waiting for it
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she's got the Talent, love her piano performances : ) Hope her Album does well
Everybody knows that Sakikonee is good on the piano, no doubt at all!!
nyuuu I wanna hear it
woot wot woot XD
師匠!
I'm glad I voted for her this year