After having released 9 CDs of her own from Pro Piano Records label, having sold approximately twenty-five thousand copies when her own album of Sakamoto Piano Works I & II went on sale in Japan, and upon the experience of producing close to 50 CDs for international pianists including Sergei Babayan and Micheal Block, Chitose Okashiro has established her own record company in New York: “Chateau.” 

The Chateau releases aim to provide listeners with maximum direct and profound musical contact, consistently operated and conducted based on the artist's own perspective and vision. The slogan is "high quality audio sound & new vision of classical music". Upon realizing that the old system of the music industry business that we have been relying on is slowly dying, Chateau was born from the people with voices which aspire to something new, individual and different. Chateau's purpose is also, to provide highly artistic products which pursue projects of pure interest, revealing new aspects of music. Spotlighting neglected and undiscovered unique music, and continuing to work on tasteful cross-over category repertoire, we seek new possibilities of performance, giving new meaning to the concept of compact disc recording. Our goal is to release CDs which overthrow existing concept and accepted ideas. In our age, we are experiencing many changes and overturn to the things in the past which were supposed to be and expected to be in a certain way. While recording industry business used to focus on only the famous composers and works until recently, people are

gradually getting interested in obscure and infamous repertoire they have not heard. Many people might feel quite offended by this Mahler CD and its transcription concept, however, at least we can feel "our work has just begun" because a stone to present the room for argument has been thrown in the lake. Beethoven once said there is no rule which cannot be broken for the sake of more beautiful thing, that is our motto.