Liszt meets various musicians / Naoki Sekino

Program

Mozart = Liszt:
Memories of "Don Giovanni"

Chopin:
Andante Spianato and Great Polonaise
Nocturne Op.9-2
Nocturne Posthumous Work (Lent Con Gran Espressione)

Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue (Piano Solo Version)

Rachmaninoff:
Prelude (Bell) Op.3-2

Profile

Born in Chiba Prefecture.After attending Nihon University Toyoyama High School, graduated from Nihon University College of Art Department of Music, majoring in piano at the top of his class, and completed graduate school at the same university. Since 2001, he has been studying at the Hungarian National Liszt Conservatory as a Hungarian government-sponsored student, and since 2003, as a Nihon University graduate school scholarship student.
In 2001, he won the Grand Prix at the 20th Iizuka Newcomer Music Competition.In 2003, he received a diploma at the 4th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar, Germany, and performed at the Liszt Festival.In 2001, he performed at Suntory Hall Small Hall Since his debut, he has held recitals almost every year (Kioi Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall, etc.) and has received overwhelming acclaim. Germany's Ottobeuren Concert Series, Memmingen, Austria's Riding (Liszt's birthplace), Liszt music. In 2002, he performed with pianist Kemal Gekic. In 2009-2010, he performed Liszt's "Dance of Death" at the "Dance of Death" exhibition -Everybody Tanz mit dem Totentanz- held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Memmingen, and performed "The Magic Finger Zauberfinger". In November 2008, she released her debut CD, ``The World of Liszt,'' which received critical acclaim.
Currently teaching piano at Japan Women's University, teaching music seminars in Budapest and holding master classes throughout Japan.In 2010, she was nominated for the Idemitsu Music Award.
So far, he has studied piano under Kazuko Momozaki, Midori Matsutani, Shioko Yoshida, Atsuko Okada, Akira Jinno, V. Trop, K. Drafie, and K. Gekichi, and musicology and performance interpretation under Noriko Ashikawa.