Nobuyuki Tsujii
piano
About this Artist
Described by The Observer as the “definition of virtuosity,” Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii (Nobu), who has been blind from birth, won a Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009 and has gone on to earn an international reputation for the passion and excitement he brings to his live performances.
Nobu’s 2024/25 season opened with an extensive concert tour of Japan with Robin Ticciati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed by a solo appearance with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and a subsequent tour of Australia during which Nobu appeared as a concerto soloist alongside the Sydney, Queensland, and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, as well as in recital at the Melbourne Recital Centre and UKARIA Cultural Centre in Adelaide. He returned to the United States for concerts at Carnegie Hall, Civic Music Association Des Moines, La Jolla Music Society, ANA Honolulu Music Week, and as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. European dates included concertos with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, George Enescu Philharmonic Bucharest, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and recitals at London’s Southbank Centre, National Concert Hall Dublin, Interlaken Classics, and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Nobu has appeared in concert with leading orchestras worldwide including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Seattle and Baltimore symphony orchestras, Münchner Philharmoniker, Filarmonica della Scala, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich at the Wiener Musikverein, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. He maintains a close relationship with Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he performed a sold-out concert as part of the 2023 BBC Proms.
An exclusive recording artist for Avex Classics International, Nobu has grown his album catalog to encompass the breadth of the piano concerto repertoire. It currently includes Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini under Vasily Petrenko with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yutaka Sado and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Sado and the BBC Philharmonic, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Nobu has also recorded several recital programs of music by Chopin, Mozart, Debussy, and Liszt.
A live DVD recording of Nobu’s 2011 Carnegie Hall recital and his latest DVD release, Touching the Sound: The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii, a documentary film by Peter Rosen, were named DVD of the Month by Gramophone.
Nobu’s international tours are supported by All Nippon Airways (ANA), and he gratefully acknowledges their assistance.