Nobuyuki & Ashkenazy 2013 Japan Tour
Memory of a life time - I was fortunate to get to attend three concerts in Japan on the Nobuyuki & Ashkenazy 2013 Japan Tour.
September 17 - September 29, 2013: Nobuyuki Tsujii toured Japan with all-time great pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, performing with the Japanese Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa.
There were 11 stops. All 11 stops were declared SOLD OUT.
I had the pleasure of being in the concert hall for three of those stops. (Please see In the land of Mr. Nobuyuki Tsujii 辻井伸行さん )
News, comments, photos about the tour were collected in three parts - please scroll down for the links.
Image source: Avex poster http://www.avexnet.or.jp/classics/tsujii-oek2013/
The 11 stops of the tour - tour numbers are in red and correspond to the numbers in the first column of the table below.
image via Internet link
Other official links:
http://www.nobupiano1988.com/schedule/index.html; http://www.orchestra-ensemble-kanazawa.jp/concert/2013/09/
http://www.deccaclassics.com/us/ontour/index.p3p?start=0&total=18&ART_ID=ASHVL This page posted by Decca (music label of maestro Ashkenazy) does not even mention Nobu
This is not the first time that Nobu and Ashkenazy & OEK perform in Japan; Nobu performed Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Maestro Ashkenazy and the OEK in June 2010 - as this poster shows and this article describes.
Also, Japanese Nobu fans informed me that Nobu has performed each of these works before.
- Some years ago, Nobu stepped in to substitute for Mr. Yukio Yokoyama (his university professor whom we saw in the Cliburn Competition video) at a Valentine Day concert, and Nobu "gave a superb performance even though he had not practiced that concerto for about a year." Brief footage of that performance has been shown on some TV specials about Nobu
- And, Nobu performed Grieg when he was only 14 years old: http://www.ntv.co.jp/shinon/0307/20030723.html- photo below, shown via Internet link
Related article
Nobu ｘ Ashkenazy 2013 - Grieg and Chopin 2 concertos
In the land of Mr. Nobuyuki Tsujii 辻井伸行さん (October 2013)
UPDATE Dec 13 2019
A video was uploaded to YouTube of a performance of the Grieg concerto performed on this tour.