12 Facts About Kotaro Fukuma

Kotaro Fukuma was born on 29 August 1982 in Tokyo and is a Japanese classical pianist.

At the Conservatoire de Paris, Fukuma was a pupil of Bruno Rigutto and Marie-Francoise Bucquet.

Kotaro Fukuma was awarded a prize at the age of 14 in a competition for young pianists in Salt Lake City.

Kotaro Fukuma has worked with personalities such as Jorge Chamine, Klaus Hellwig, Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Leslie Howard, Dominique Merlet, and Aldo Ciccolini.

Kotaro Fukuma has played in the Berliner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Wigmore Hall in London, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Auditorium National in Madrid, the Salle Mozart in Zaragoza, the Suntory Hall, the Opera City in Tokyo, the Victoria Hall of Geneva, the Carnegie Hall in New York.

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Kotaro Fukuma replaced Helene Grimaud in the concert series "Grandes Pianistas" at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago.

Kotaro Fukuma performed at La Folle Journee in Tokyo in 2013,2015,2016 and 2018 - in recital or with orchestra.

Kotaro Fukuma plays with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, l'Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France, l'Orchestre national de Lille, the New Japan Philharmonic under the baton of conductors such as Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Francois-Xavier Roth, Asher Fisch, Yuki Kakiuchi, Kazuki Yamada, Mihhail Gerts, and others.

In solo piano, chamber music and concertos, Kotaro Fukuma has acquired a substantial and varied repertoire of no less than forty concertos.

Kotaro Fukuma has played rare concertos such as those of Englund, MacDowell, James MacMillan and Hermann Goetz.

Kotaro Fukuma is the youngest pianist to have recorded at the age of 25 in 2007 the complete Albeniz' Iberia published in Japan by Harmony Japan in 2008 and published for the world outside Japan by Editions Hortus in 2012.

Kotaro Fukuma's recordings have been praised in most trade magazines or in the daily press, particularly in France in the evening newspaper Le Monde which, in its edition dated Tuesday 30 September 2014, attributed to Kotaro Fukuma "magician fingers" about the Dumka record, and in books about piano.