Tatsuya Nagashima

Praised for his “decisive, powerful playing” (Fanfare Magazine) and “poetic grandeur and emotional depth” (The London Daily Press), pianist Tatsuya Nagashima first came to the international attention in 1993 when he captured the grand prize at Italy’s Ibla Grand Prize International Piano Competition. Since then, he regularly performs at major festivals and venues around the world, from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, to Royal Albert Hall and Barbican Centre in London, Salle Pleyel Hall in Paris, Schauspielhaus and Deutsche Rundfunk Saal in Berlin, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society Hall and the Bolishoi Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in Russia, Musikverein in Vienna, Suntory Hall and Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, as well as National Concert Hall of Taiwan. As a guest soloist with orchestras, Nagashima has performed with world’s leading orchestras, including Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestra Berlin, Russian National Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Russian Federal Orchestra, St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Kirov Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony, Houston Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra among many others.  The conductors whom he worked with include Valery Gergiev, Daniel Gatti, Vaktang Jordania, Ian Hobson, Jahja Ling and Shigeo Genda. His long list of awards include the Vittorio Giannini Award, the National Society of Arts and Letters Award in the United States, the Cultural Award from the government of Taiwan, the Japan Performers Association Award, the Chiba Prefecture Cultural Award in Japan and an honorary award from the Art Festival for Children in Moscow.  In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Kharkov Institute of Music in Ukraine.  In August 2003, he received Mayor’s Award from the City of Vienna, Austria for his continuing charity concerts and outreach programs for young audience. While he was a student, he has won first prize at more than 20 national and international level piano competitions including IBLA Grand Prize International Competitions (Ibla, Italy), European International Piano Competition (Munich, Germany), Los Angeles Chopin Competition and Japan Piano Competition. Mr. Nagashima have been featured on radio and TV all over Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa, North and South America including NPR, PBS, ABC and NBC in the United States.  His recordings on Melodiya, Angelok1, Fontec, Test-Achats and Orion Classics labels include solo works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, and Copland. He also recorded Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488 with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestra Berlin, Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto & “Triple” Concerto (with Tchaikovsky International Competition winner, Kirill Rodin on the cello and the Moscow Conservatory faculty, Alexander Trostiansky on the violin) with Russian Federal Orchestra.

Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Grieg, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Scriabin. Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Shura Cherkassky, Carlos Kleiber, Leopoldo Stokowski