Kotaro Fukuma

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Kotaro Fukuma, 2013

Kotaro Fukuma (* 1982 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese pianist .

Life

Fukuma began taking piano lessons at the age of five and received first awards in international competitions Paloma O'Shea (Santander), Arthur Rubinstein (Tel Aviv), Maj Lind (Helsinki) and Gina Bachauer (Salt Lake City). He studied music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Bruno Rigutto and Marie-Françoise Bucquet as well as at the University of the Arts Berlin with Klaus Hellwig and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. During his studies he took part in master classes and learned from Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Andreas Steier and Aldo Ciccolini. At the age of 20 he won first prize and the Chopin Prize at the 2003 Cleveland International Piano Competition. Since then, his concert career has expanded to North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

He has performed in Carnegie Hall , Lincoln Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, and the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Sala Mozart in Zaragoza, the Suntory Hall and the Tokyo Opera City.

In addition to his solo work, he has played with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Lille National Orchestra, the Royal Filharmonic Orchestra Galicia, the New Japan Philharmonic and the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Insura Orchestra and the Johannes Brahms Philharmonic Orchestra. He played under the direction of conductors such as Yuri Simonov, Asher Fisch, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Hanna Lintu, François-Xavier Roth, Lawrence L. Smith, Kazuyoshi Akiyama and Kazuki Yamada.

In contemporary music, he has performed works by Toru Takemitsu , Thierry Escaich , Einojuhani Rautavaara and Seongju Oh as national or international world premieres.

Fukuma has released ten albums so far, including Sing to Water (Esprit du Piano), Schumann and Takemitsu (Naxos), Liszt and Toppan Hall Live (Accoustica), Chopin, Albéniz, Debussy and Dumka (Editions Hortus) and Mozart & Schumann Piano Concerts (DENON ). His recordings received excellent reviews in music magazines such as Gramophone, Diapason, American Music Records, Monde de la Musique, Klassik Heute, Piano News, Record Geijutsu and Classic Today.

Fukuma lives in Berlin.

CD recordings

  • 2005: Schumann, Variations Abegg | Novellettes | Fantasy Pieces opus 111 (Naxos)
  • 2007: Toru Takemitsu, piano music (Naxos)
  • 2008: Isaac Albeniz, España, Iberia, Tango, La Vega, etc. (Harmony LTD Japan)
  • 2009: Récital à Toppan Hall Tokyo, Haydn, Schumann, (Carnaval), Fauré, Scriabine (Accustika Japan)
  • 2010: Liszt, Grandes Etudes Paganini | Études de concert p. 144 | Grande Etude de Perfectionnement From Irato | Études de concert p. 145 | Rhapsody espagnole | Love dream n ° 3 (Accustika Japan)
  • 2012: Isaac Albeniz, Iberia (Éditions Hortus)
  • 2012: Claude Debussy, Arabesques, Images (livres I et II), Estampes, L'Isle joyeuse, extraits des Préludes (Nippon Columbia Denon) pour le Japon
  • 2013: Claude Debussy, Arabesques, Images (livres I et II), Estampes, L'Isle joyeuse, extraits des Préludes (Editions Hortus Denon) Monde hors Japon
  • 2013: Frédéric Chopin, Ballades (Nippon Columbia Denon pour le Japon)
  • 2014: Dumka, Russian composers Moussorgsky, Tchaikowsky, Glinka, Balakirev, Stravinsky (Éditions Hortus)
  • 2015: Frédéric Chopin Ballades (Hortus Denon Monde hors Japon)
  • 2015: Schumann, Concerto - Mozart, piano concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme" with Yokohama Sinfonietta, conductor: Kazuki Yamada (Denon)
  • 2016: Piano Fantasy, "Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert" (Orpheus)
  • 2017: Chopin Legacy: "24 Prélude, Sonata No. 3 etc." (ARS production)
  • 2017: Ohzawa: Piano Concerto No. 3 (DENON)
  • 2018: France Romance: "Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, Satie, Poulenc, Weissenberg, Lenoir" (Naxos)
  • 2019: Beethoven: "Sonatas Op. 31 No. 2 (Tempest), Op. 78, Op. 111 (Naxos)
  • 2019: Kotaro Fukuma plays Akashi Takashima (film project, Naxos)

Web links

Commons : Kotaro Fukuma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Short biography with year of birth
personal data
SURNAME Fukuma, Kotaro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan