1. Nobuyuki Tsujii is a Japanese pianist and composer.
36 Facts About Nobuyuki Tsujii
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Nobuyuki Tsujii began formal piano study at the age of four.
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In 1995, at age seven, Nobuyuki Tsujii won the first prize at the All Japan Music of Blind Students by the Tokyo Helen Keller Association.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii gave his first piano recital in the small hall of Tokyo's Suntory Hall at age 12.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii competed in the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and tied for the gold medal with Haochen Zhang.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii was awarded the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the best performance of a new work.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii was one of the competitors prominently featured in the Peter Rosen documentary film about the 2009 Van Cliburn competition, A Surprise in Texas, which was first broadcast on PBS TV in 2010.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii has since released numerous albums of his own compositions.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii is a film music composer and the 2011 recipient of the Japan Film Critics Award for Film Music.
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On November 10,2011, Nobuyuki Tsujii made his debut in the main hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, as part of the Keyboard Virtuosos II series.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii debuted at the BBC Proms on July 16,2013, with a performance with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii is featured in a 2013 English textbook for high schools in Japan.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii won the 1st Prize at the InterArtia 2015 international competition by the International Art Society in Volos, Greece.
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In 2024, Nobuyuki Tsujii entered an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii has performed with numerous orchestras under the baton of many conductors, both in Japan and abroad.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii has performed with the Takacs Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii has performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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In 2016, Nobuyuki Tsujii created and performed the background music for a series of three animation of Choju-jinbutsu-giga scrolls produced by Studio Ghibli for Marubeni Corporation.
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At the 2020 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, a recording of a composition by Nobuyuki Tsujii was played while the flag of Japan was carried on stage.
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On November 9,2019, Nobuyuki Tsujii performed at the National Celebration for the Enthronement of Emperor Naruhito.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii was featured in an original short film "Lights of Japan" shown at the World Economics Summit in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2012.
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On October 25,2015, Nobuyuki Tsujii performed with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston, in partnership with the Japan Society of Boston and the Berklee College of Music, benefiting the Boston Higashi School and the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta.
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In Taiwan on April 15,2019, Nobuyuki Tsujii visited the Taichung Hui Ming School for the Blind at the invitation of the TSMC Culture and Education Foundation, where he performed and spoke to the students, encouraging them to fulfill their potentials.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii stood up to greet me, and talked with me for more than the scheduled 30 minutes.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii said that Cliburn medallists like us, in addition to striving to deepen our own musical understanding, can make a strong impression on others to attract them to classical music.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii takes these words to heart, and has travelled to remote corners of the world to hold concerts.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii's performance had the power of a healing service.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii's music is so wonderful, and it goes to infinity to the highest heaven.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii has just found a way to express all of those different emotions on the journey until in the end there's just this incredible feeling of for me, sunlight.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii possesses a rare combination of excellent pianism and genuinely expressive musicianship.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii is so musical, so organic that it is very easy to accompany him.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii plays the piano with a minimum amount of flourish as required by God.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii is one of a few in existence qualified to play the works dedicated to the God of Music by composers.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii inspires courage to live and engenders food for thought.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii's playing goes straight to the heart, propelled by his phenomenal technique and the uncanny richness of sound he draws from the piano.
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Nobuyuki Tsujii doesn't speak much, and nothing to be said, because everything is through his music.