Kudo gave her first performances with orchestra at age 16 in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and De Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic in Poland and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Ireland, and appeared in recital at Chopin’s birthplace in Poland, Salle Cortot in Paris, Musikverein in Vienna, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Aspen Music Festival, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York. Born in Washington, D.C., Kudo began studying piano at age 4 with Emilio del Rosario and continued at The Juilliard School and the Mannes College of Music.