St. John’s College, UBC Access and Diversity, and the UBC School of Music are excited to present our signature event in the series
Beyond the Screen: disAbility and the Arts
2009 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist…
Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano
March 10, 2013 in Vancouver!
Please note that tickets are sold out for the concert. Tickets will not be available at the door.
Blind since birth, Nobuyuki Tsujii was joint Gold Medal winner at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. An inspirational musician with a formidable technique and a natural gift for pianistic color, he has earned international recognition in recent years for the excitement of his live performances. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, the BBC Philharmonic and Yutaka Sado and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and Thierry Fischer among others. Future engagements include his Carnegie Hall orchestral debut with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, his debut with the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot and a major Japanese tour with the BBC Philharmonic, Yutaka Sado conducting. As a recitalist he gave a sold-out solo performance at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in 2011, and has also given recitals at the Aspen and Ravinia Festivals and in Washington D.C, Boston, Berlin and Munich.
In his home country he has appeared as a soloist with all the major Japanese orchestras including NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Japan Philharmonic and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. He records exclusively for Avex Classics, and has made a number of best-selling discs in recent years including Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with DSO Berlin, an all-Chopin recital disc, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Yukata Sado and the BBC Philharmonic, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. A live DVD recording of his 2011 Carnegie Hall recital has recently been released and is distributed by Naxos in the US and Euroarts in Europe.
Nobuyuki Tsujii’s international tours are supported by All Nippon Airways (ANA), and he gratefully acknowledges their assistance.
Image © Yuji Hori
“I always rejoice in the surge and passion of this music, but I can’t remember being as moved as I was here…. Tsujii is as grand and glittering as one could wish for” (MusicWeb International).
https://sites.google.com/site/nobufans/critics-reviews/fort-worth-2013-tchai-1-review
Nobuyuki Tsujii Plays Debussy and Chopin
Roy Barnett Recital Hall, UBC Point Grey
Debussy: Two Arabeques
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Debussy: Estampes (“Prints”)
Debussy: L’isle joyeuse (“The Happy Island”)
Chopin: Waltz No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 18, “Grande valse brilliant”
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy in A-flat major, Op.61
Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.53, “Heroique”