Hiroko Nakamura

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Hiroko Nakamura , actually Hiroko Fukuda , (born July 25, 1944 in Yamanashi , † July 26, 2016 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese classical pianist.

life and work

Nakamura was born in Yamanashi in 1944, but grew up in Tokyo. At the age of three she began studying piano with Aiko Iguchi at the Toho Music School in Tokyo. In 1959, at the age of 15, she won first prize at the NHK Mainichi Competition , the national music competition in Japan. In 1960 she made her debut under the conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki . From 1963 to 1966 she completed in-depth studies with Rosina Lhévinne at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. She completed further studies with Nikita Magaloff , Zbigniew Drzewiecki and Stefan Askenase . In 1965 she won a 4th prize at the 7th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. She was the youngest and only the second Japanese prize winner at this competition. This award opened the way for her to pursue an international pianist career.

She herself appeared as a juror at numerous international piano competitions such as the Chopin , Tchaikowsky , Leeds, Arthur Rubinstein from Israel, Sydney , Busoni , Beijing and Shanghai International Youth Competitions. She has received numerous awards such as the Japanese Foreign Minister's Award for International Cooperation, the NHK Broadcast Cultural Award , the Order of Merit of the Polish Government and the Arthur Rubinstein Gold Medal . She received the “Gloria Artis” gold medal of the Polish Republic for services to culture because she had sharpened awareness of the piano works of Chopin and other Polish composers in their work.

Nakamura died in July 2016 of colon cancer. Her husband was the Japanese writer Kaoru Shōji .

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  • Hiroko Nakamura. In: Alain Pâris : Classical music in the 20th century, instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd Edition. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 553 .
  • Hiroko Nakamura. In: www.japanarts.co.jp. Archived from the original on March 11, 2020 ; accessed on March 6, 2020 (English).
  • Stanisław Dybowski: Hiroko Nakamura. Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina (National Polish Frederic Chopin Institute), archived from the original on March 11, 2020 ; accessed on March 7, 2020 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noted Japanese pianist Hiroko Nakamura dies. Asia News Network, July 29, 2016, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Alain Pâris gives, contrary to all other sources, his date of birth as June 25, 1944.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Hiroko Nakamura. In: Alain Pâris: Classical Music in the 20th Century.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Hiroko Nakamura: In: japanarts.co.jp.
personal data
SURNAME Nakamura, Hiroko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fukuda, Hiroko (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese classical pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Yamanashi
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2016
Place of death Tokyo