Moto Harada

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Moto Harada in the Warsaw Royal Castle 2013

Mototsugu "Moto" Harada ( Japanese 原田 資 嗣 , Harada Mototsugu ; * 1957 in Shimonoseki ) is a Japanese concert pianist and composer .

biography

Moto Harada has been playing the piano since he was three. He studied music and music education at the Tokyo University of the Arts ( Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ). Further studies took him to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 1980 as a student of Hermann Schwertmann and to New York in 1982, where he received lessons from Jacob Latiner , professor at the Juilliard School . In 1983 an invitation from the Polish government enabled him to study for two years at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music with Regina Smendzianka . During this time he gave numerous concerts and appeared on radio and television. A scholarship from Rotary International then enabled him to continue his education at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . There he passed the concert exam with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling . Moto Harada has been teaching piano at the Hildesheim University Foundation since 1988 .

Concert activity

In addition to teaching, Harada works as a concert pianist. One focus is on works from the classical and romantic repertoire (Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, etc.). In addition, he has performed an extensive musical spectrum of virtuoso piano works (Ravel, Debussy, Gershwin and others). Moto Harada is also actively involved in new music and has premiered piano works by Witold Szalonek , Gyu-Bong Yi and others. Moto Harada has also made concert tours to other European countries and overseas. Since 2000 he has been a regular guest at the Seelze Music Festival.

Works

In his compositions, Harada combines recourse to European and Far East Asian musical traditions with innovative elements of new music. Many pieces are thematically oriented and evoke a specific mood or create a theme with means of musical expression as a program . The immediate emotional accessibility enables the auditorium to come into direct contact with the new musical forms of expression. The compositions include, in particular, pieces for piano solo in various degrees of difficulty, as well as chamber music and vocal pieces. On November 6th, 2016, his piano concerto was performed in the Church of St. Michael (Hildesheim) .

Compositions by Harada have been published by Olms-Weidmann. A collection of piano beginners' pieces entitled “Album of the Isle of Spiekeroog” is freely available.

  • Animals from Galapagos / Animals form Galapagos. 9 compositions for piano.
  • Morning sunlight. Four haiku songs for soprano and piano. With texts by Martin Schreiner.
  • Pictures by Vincent van Gogh / Pictures by Vincent van Gogh. Four Pieces for Piano.
  • Twelve Dream Stories for Piano. With illustrations by Moritz Götze .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Tschörner: Piano Concerto will be premiered in Seelze. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . October 28, 2016 (Review)
  2. ↑ "Album of the Isle of Spiekeroog" for download. Seelze MuSe International Music Festival, accessed on May 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Moto Harada: Animals from Galapagos / Animals form Galapagos. 9 compositions for piano. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-487-14663-8 (121 pages).
  4. ↑ Moto Harada: Morning sunlight / Light of the Morning Sun . Four haiku songs for soprano and piano. With texts by Martin Schreiner. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-487-14692-8 (34 pages).
  5. ↑ Moto Harada: Pictures by Vincent van Gogh / Pictures by Vincent van Gogh. Four Pieces for Piano. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15263-9 (44 pages).
  6. ↑ Moto Harada: Twelve Dream Stories for Piano / Twelve Dream Stories for Piano . With illustrations by Moritz Götze. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15192-2 (56 pages).
  7. ↑ Hagen Eichler: The sound of night thoughts. In: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung . June 13, 2015 (archived by the University of Hildesheim ; PDF; 1.2 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Harada, Moto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 原田 資 嗣 (Japanese); Harada Mototsugu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese concert pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Shimonoseki