Jun Matsuoka Piano Recital -Piano Symphony vol.4-

Program

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15 "Rakoczi March" Debussy: Heroic Lullaby Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in E-flat major, Op.53 "Heroic" Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major "Heroic"

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Jun Matsuoka After graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Instrumental Music, he completed his master's course at the same university. From 1993, he studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary for two years as a scholarship student of the ROHM Music Foundation. He has won numerous awards at competitions and auditions both in Japan and overseas. In 1999, he became the first Japanese to win first place in the piano category of the Brahms International Music Competition, and the Bösendorfer Prize. He has performed with orchestras both in Japan and overseas, including the New Japan Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Moldova National Philharmonic. In addition to solo recitals in various locations, his performances with Miklós Perényi (Vc.), Joseph Lin (Vn.), Katerina Schott (Vn.), and Abri Leviton (Va.) were all highly praised. In the spring of 2003, he was invited to the Contemporary Music Festival in Kiev, where he performed solo and chamber music concerts, including a performance with the Kiev Soloists, and received rave reviews. Since then, he has been invited to Kiev every year and has performed in various concerts, including with orchestras, solo, and chamber music, in various parts of Ukraine and in neighboring Moldova's capital, Chisinau. To date, he has studied solo with the late Kedo Miyo, Watanabe Kenji, Kadono Yutaka, I. Lantosh, F. Radosh, and C. Kiraly, and chamber music with F. Radosh and D. Sandor. He is currently a part-time lecturer at Showa University of Music, its graduate school and junior college, and Showa Piano Art Academy.

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Jun Matsuoka