Takumi NASHIMOTO

16 June 1995

Japan

He studied at the Tokyo College of Music between 2011 and 2014, then obtained bachelor’s degree at the Tokyo University of Arts in 2018, currently pursuing his master studies in piano performance at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest, with the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship. He won second prize at the 30th Ichikawa New Musician Competition in 2017, and participated in master classes of Judit Neszlényi and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He performed every year since 2014 at “Piano Evening Recital” events in Nagano, Japan, among others, and gave concerts with orchestras in Japan as well as in Hungary. As a contemporary performer, he played Kōji Takahashi’s pieces in 2018 and electronic works by Yuichi Yogo in 2017 as world-premieres in Japan.

REPERTOIRE:

PRELIMINARY

Bartók: Sonatina, BB 69

Brahms: Ballade in D minor, op. 10/1

Liszt: Transcendental Études – 8. Wilde Jagd

SEMI-FINAL

Bartók: Sonata, BB 88

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, op. 2/3 – 1. Allegro con brio

János Mátyás Stark: Toccata

FINAL

Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23

Debussy: Images, Book 1 – 1. Reflets dans l’eau, 2. Hommage à Rameau, 3. Mouvement

Debussy: Images, Book 2 – 3. Poissons d’or

GRAND FINAL

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127