2009年世界最難関とも言われるハノーファー国際コンクールにおいて史上最年少の16歳で優勝。ロサンゼルス・フィル、ロイヤル・フィル、マリインスキー劇場管、エーテボリ響、フランクフルト放送響、ベルリン・ドイツ響、チャイコフスキー・シンフォニー・オーケストラなどと共演。共演した指揮者にはドゥダメル、ゲルギエフ、フェドセーエフ、ズーカーマン、ロウヴァリ、ティチアーティなどが挙げられる。今後、バルセロナ響、ケルン放送響、ロイヤル・フィル、ロッテルダム・フィルとの共演、パリでピリスとのデュオも予定している。CDはエイベックス・クラシックスよりリリース。〈サントリーホール ARKクラシックス〉のアーティスティック・リーダーを務める。使用ヴァイオリンは、宗次コレクションより貸与されたストラディヴァリウス 1704年製作“Viotti”。
2009年6月、第13回ヴァン・クライバーン国際ピアノ・コンクールで日本人として初優勝して以来、国際的に活躍している。ニューヨークのカーネギーホールの主催公演、イギリス最大の音楽祭「プロムス」へのBBCフィルとの出演、ウィーン楽友協会やベルリン・フィルハーモニー、パリのシャンゼリゼ劇場などの世界の著名なホールでの演奏会はいずれも絶賛され、ゲルギエフやアシュケナージなどの世界的指揮者との共演も常に高い評価を受けている。CDも積極的に発表し、2度の日本ゴールドディスク大賞を受賞。作曲家としても高い人気を誇り、映画《神様のカルテ》で「第21回日本映画批評家大賞」を受賞したほか、数多くの映画やドラマのテーマ曲を手掛けている。〈サントリーホール ARKクラシックス〉のアーティスティック・リーダー。
Born in Tokyo, Fumiaki Miura starts his musical education with Tsugio Tokunaga at his hometown Conservatory before moving to Vienna to carry on his studies with Pavel Vernikov and Julian Rachlin. Since aged 16, Fumiaki is mentored and guided by Pinchas Zukerman. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the prestigious Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition, being the youngest winner ever.
Highlights of the 2021/2022 season include his debut at the Orquesta Nacional de España (OCNE), concerts with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona alongside Pinchas Zukerman, a recital with Maria João Pires in Barcelona at the Palau de la Música, as well as a tour around Europe with pianist Varvara. He will be artist in residence with three concerts in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London
Miura has performed with orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester, Prague Philharmonia, Mariinsky Theater, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, Warsaw Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de Toulouse, BBC Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphoniker, hr-Sinfonieorchester , among others. Fumiaki Miura plays under the baton of conductors such as Gergiev, Dudamel, Zukerman, Penderecki, Fedoseyev, Orozco-Estrada, Ono, Lintu, Hrůša, Petrenko, Pons, Hahn, Rouvali, Denève, Järvi, Shimono, Fisher and Payaré.
Fumiaki Miura plays a 1704 Stradivarius named “ex Viotti” kindly loaned by the Munetsugu Foundation
Described by The Observer as the “definition of virtuosity” Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii (Nobu), who has been blind from birth, won the joint 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 has appeared in concert with leading orchestras worldwide including The Mariinsky Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, and NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Seattle and Baltimore symphony orchestras, Filarmonica della Scala and Sinfonieorchester Basel under the baton of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Spivakov, Juanjo Mena and Vasily Petrenko. Nobu’s past appearances as a recitalist have seen him perform at prestigious venues across the world such as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, Berlin Philharmonie, and Vienna’s Musikverein.
Having been prominently featured in the Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony in August 2021, Nobu’s 2021/22 season sees him joined by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Santtu-Matias Rouvali for a Far Eastern tour and includes concerto engagements with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Solo recitals include visits to the Wiener Konzerthaus, Birmingham’s Town Hall, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s Benaroya Hall, as well as numerous appearances across his native Japan.
Earlier seasons have seen Nobu work with Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Kent Nagano and NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover under Andrew Manze.
He received critical acclaim for his recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Théâtre des Champs Elysées as well as his debut with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
An exclusive recording artist for Avex Classics International, Nobu’s growing album catalogue encompasses the breadth of the piano concerto repertoire. As of the start of the 2021/22 season it includes Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov’s Variations on a theme of Paganini under Vasily Petrenko with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Yutaka Sado and the BBC Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Nobu has also recorded several recital programmes of Chopin, Mozart, Debussy, and Liszt.
A live DVD recording of Nobu’s 2011 Carnegie Hall recital was named DVD of the Month by Gramophone, as was his latest DVD release, ‘Touching the Sound - The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii’, a documentary film by Peter Rosen.