Question: Martha Argerich invited which 12 year old French pianist to perform at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan marking the beginning of his career?
Context: François-Xavier Poizat is a French pianist.  Born 18 August 1989 in Grenoble with Swiss, French and Chinese origins, Poizat grew up with the learning from the Russian masters Alexeï Golovine and Evgeni Koroliov, as well as the Argentinian pianists Nelson Goerner and Martha Argerich.  It is Martha Argerich who propelled him on the international stage by inviting him when he was 12 years old to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, recognizing his ‘’deep lyricism and remarkable virtuosity’’.  This marked the beginning of a career that has brought him to perform in already 22 countries in Europe and Asia.  He currently lives in New York City and studies at The Juilliard School with Matti Raekallio. Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the first live album by Stevie Wonder.  The album was released on the Tamla record label (catalog #240) in May 1963, the same month as the single release of "Fingertips" (catalog #54080).  "Fingertips" topped both the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and the R&B Singles chart, and "Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius" topped the "Billboard" 200, all of which happened in 1963.  This is the last album to use the "Little" in Stevie Wonder's name.  Starting with the next album, his name goes by just "Stevie Wonder." The Pacific Music Festival (パシフィック・ミュージック・フェスティバル) is an international classical music festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan.  It was founded in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein, who had originally planned for it to be held in Beijing.  The original artistic directors were Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.  Subsequent artistic directors have included Christoph Eschenbach and Fabio Luisi, and principal conductors have included Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Valery Gergiev, Nello Santi, Riccardo Muti, Fabio Luisi, and Jun Märkl.  Principals and performers from major orchestras in Europe and America, as well as soloists, serve as faculty, providing 4 weeks of instruction to young musicians from around the world who are selected through auditions.  During the festival, performances of the PMF Orchestra, in addition to those of various chamber ensembles made up of students and faculty, are frequent and well attended. Eugene Izotov (born 1973) is a Russian-born oboist and recording artist.  He is currently the Principal Oboist of the San Francisco Symphony appointed by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2014.  First Russian-born oboist in any major U.S. symphony orchestra.  Faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Music Academy of the West, Verbier Festival (Switzerland) and Pacific Music Festival (Japan).  Prior to these posts, he served as the Principal Oboist of the Chicago Symphony, Principal Oboist of the Metropolitan Opera, Principal Oboist of the Kansas City Symphony  and has taught at the Juilliard School and the DePaul University.  He studied with American oboist Ralph Gomberg at Boston University, from which he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award.  In addition to being recognized as one of the world's premiere orchestral oboists, Izotov has been awarded top prizes at international competitions for solo oboists in Moscow (1990), Saint Petersburg (1991), New York (1995) and the First Prize at the 2001 Fernand Gillet International Oboe competition.  Eugene Izotov's solo and chamber music collaborations include partnerships with Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yo Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, Jaime Laredo, André Watts, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and the Tokyo String Quartet.  He has appeared over 50 times as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, MET Chamber Ensemble, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and has recorded for Sony Classical, Boston Records, Lisem Records, BMG, Elektra, and CSOResound. Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine classical pianist, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the second half of the 20th century. Philippe Hirschhorn (11 June 1946, Riga – 26 November 1996, Brussels) was a violinist.  He won the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1967.  Born in Riga, Latvia, he first studied at Darsin music school in Riga with Prof. Waldemar Sturestep, later he studied with prof Michael Waiman at the Conservatoire of St. Petersburg (Then still called Leningrad).  He played concerts all over the world (Europe, America and Japan) with the most prestigious orchestras conducted by amongst others Herbert von Karajan, Uri Segal, Eugene Ormandy, Yury Temirkanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gary Bertini, Ronald Zollman.  He played together with Elisabeth Leonskaya, Martha Argerich, James Tocco, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Frederic Meinders, Hans Mannes, Brigitte Engerer etc.  The rare recordings that exist of him playing are examples of his technical and musical abilities.  He was the teacher of many excellent violinists who dedicated their working life to performing and teaching, among others Philippe Graffin, David Grimal, Cornelia Angerhofer, Janine Jansen, Yoris Jarzynski, Marie-Pierre Vendôme and many others. Damien Luce (born 1978) is a French pianist, actor, and writer.  He studied with Billy Eidi at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and with Herbert Stessin at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.  He also studied chamber music with Bruce Brubaker, Harvey Shapiro and Andre Emilianov, conducting with Laurent Petitgirard and orchestration with Alain Louvier.  In 2001, he was chosen to perform for Murray Perahia’s Master Class at the Juilliard School.  In June 2000, he was an alternate at the Aspen Music Festival concerto competition. Maria Curcio (27 August 1918 or 191930 March 2009) was an Italian classical pianist who became a sought-after teacher.  Her students included Barry Douglas, Martha Argerich, Radu Lupu, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Myung-Whun Chung, Leon Fleisher, Rafael Orozco, Christopher Elton and Geoffrey Tozer.  She was the last student of Artur Schnabel and she passed on his teachings to her own students. The Lucerne Festival is a series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland.  Founded in 1938, it currently produces three festivals per year, attracting some 110,000 visitors annually taking place since 2004 primarily at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL) designed by Jean Nouvel.  Each festival features resident orchestras and soloists alongside guest performances from international ensembles and artists, in 2017 including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Emanuel Ax, Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov. The Collector (French: "Le Collectionneur" ) is a Canadian thriller film, released in 2002.  Written and directed by Jean Beaudin based on the crime novel of the same name by Chrystine Brouillet, the film stars Maude Guérin as Maude Graham, a police detective trying to track down a serial killer (Luc Picard) while simultaneously sheltering two homeless teenagers, a 16 year old hustler (Lawrence Arcouette) and a 12 year old runaway (Charles-André Bourassa).
Answer: François-Xavier Poizat