Sumiko Tajihi, Violin / Seiji Nakanishi, Piano — live event

Born in 1994 in Kyoto, Seiji Nakanishi started to study the piano at 4 years old. Between 2007 and 2011, studying with Masayasu Sakata, a part-time lecturer in the Kyoto Municipal University of Arts, he was winner of the Grand-Prix and the First Prize in the European International Piano Competition in Japan and was awarded the 4th Prize in the Japan Classic Music Competition in 2011. From 2012, he started to study with Albert Lotto DMA. From 2015 with Seiji has been a pupil of Reiko Shiba, who graduated from the Paris Conservatoire and studied with Vlado Perlemuter. He also participated in the master class of Georges Pludermacher in Kyoto in 2015 and received private lessons with Kazimierz Gierzod in Poland in 2014, with Phillip Kawin in New York in 2015, with Miyoko Nakaya Lotto and Efrem Briskin in 2022 in New York and Konstantin Lifschitz in 2022 in Italy. Seiji was awarded the Special Prize in the Nara Symphony Concerto Competition, performing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto with the Nara Philharmonic Orchestra (2016). He has performed many public and private solo recitals in Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo, Taiwan, Brussels, Italy and in New York. Seiji equally focuses upon performing chamber music, in particular with strings, flute and horn. He studied chamber music with Nobu Wakabayashi, DMA between 2012 and 2015. He also studied with Regis Pasquier at the master class held in Kyoto in 2015. He is currently pursuing Chamber Music studies and performances intensively with Kanji Nakanishi, his younger brother who studies violin with Yossif Ivanov in Brussels. Seiji Nakanishi has graduated the master program of applied life science in the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, as also graduated the master program and studied with Paul Ostrovsky, Master of Music at Conservatory of Music, Purchase College, State University of New York. Violinist Sumiko Tajihi has been acclaimed widely for her, “Every single bit of tune Sumiko creates is like human voices”, (La stampa/Italy) “not only passionate tone but full of warmhearted…” (Western Journal/Japan)  She appeared as a concerto soloist with New York Symphonic Ensemble at Isaac Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall on March 11th, 2007. A native of Yamaguchi, Japan, Ms. Tajihi received her bachelor’s degree from The Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Nagoya, and was the first prize winner with a special prize from the president of music association in the 12th Youth Competition in Yamaguchi prefecture. Between 1996 and 2000, she had performed as a member of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, and participated in the 46th Bayreuth Festival in Germany and the Aspen Music School and Festival in Colorado, USA. She studied with Momoo Kishibe, Yoshiko Okayama, Naoko Tanaka and had trained with Ronald Copes at Juilliard.

Starts: 2024-03-07T20:00:50Z

Ends: 2024-03-07T22:00:50Z

Where: 154 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019, United States

Price: $49.0

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