MTD Events
Guest Artist Lecture/Recital: "Chopin's Private World" Takeshi Nagayasu, piano
Date and Time
Thursday, January 9, 2025 4:30 PM
Location
Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall
Description
Takeshi Nagayasu is an unusually versatile and multifaceted pianist
who has been recognized and won many top prizes in competitions such
as the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin, Jacob Flier, Rosamond Haeberle,
Borderland Chopin International, and the International Robert Schumann
Competition in Germany. He has performed in prominent venues such as
Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York City. He was
featured in a radio interview on All Classical Portland Radio
"Thursdays at Three." He is a recipient of multiple
scholarships including awards from the Feltsman Piano Foundation, as
well as the Evelyn Bonar Storrs Scholarship from the Musical Club of
Hartford. He also received full scholarships to attend major music
festivals including Pianosummer at New Paltz and International
Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York, and Gijón International
Piano Festival in Spain.
In addition to piano, Takeshi is also a
composer who has written numerous pieces for piano, chamber ensembles,
and chamber orchestra. His music has been performed and premiered in
the Portland International Piano Festival, Stamps Auditorium and
Britton Hall at the University of Michigan, Paul Hall at Juilliard,
and the Gijón International Piano Festival in Spain. He has played
organ in masses in the Most Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church and
the Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Church in New York. He also has
worked as a collaborative pianist at Juilliard, Silver Music, and
Morse Summer Academy, played piano and celesta part in the Yale
Philharmonia Orchestra and University Philharmonia Orchestra at the
University of Michigan.
Takeshi studied at Juilliard, Yale, and is
currently pursuing a doctoral degree in piano performance at the
University of Michigan. His teachers include Logan Skelton, Vladimir
Feltsman, Melvin Chen, Boris Berman, Joseph Kalichstein, Matti
Raekallio, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Xiaohe Xie. Composition studies
were with Philip Lasser. Takeshi studied organ with Isaac Lee and
Theodore Cheng. He has taught both solo piano lessons as well as in
the classroom at Yale and the University of Michigan. He was also a
teaching artist in the Music in Schools Initiative Program for
creative music making classes, and has given master classes at
California Polytechnic State University in 2019.
Takeshi enjoys
watching soccer matches during his free time. He is a supporter of FC
Barcelona, Manchester City, and NYCFC.
This event also appears on the main events calendar tagged as arts, clas, concert, music, and performance.
Contact
Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
(616) 331-3484