Nobuyuki Tsujii Past Concerts
Photo from Nobuyuki's official site, from Nobu's April 2011 concert in Edmonton, Canada
After the announcement of the winners at the Cliburn Competition, some skeptics openly questioned the feasibility of Nobu -- with his handicap -- to meet the grueling demands of international concert tours. I think by now Nobu has effectively silenced these critics. Since 2009, Nobu has traveled to North America, Europe, Russia and Australia to perform, wowing audiences everywhere with his music and inspiration.
Nobu's concert performances are magical and even more enchanting than on video and CDs. I have been to many and will attend many more, whenever and wherever possible.
Here are the tours and concerts for which I have collected information as they took place, most recent first:
Year 2024
April 12 & 14, Grieg's concerto with Sinfonica Milan & conductor SESTO QUATRINI Italy.
April 10 20:00, Theatre Champs Elysees , Paris, France. Bach-Chopin-Debussy-Rachmaninov recital
April 7 Sunday 7:30 PM Liverpool Philharmonic Hall U.K., Bach, Chopin, Debussy and Rachmaninov recital at LiverpoolFeb 22 - March 10 2023-24 Japan Recital Tour PART 2
April 6 1PM Wigmore Hall, London, U.K.. Bach, Chopin and Rachmaninov recital
April 4 19:30 Congress Kursaal Interlaken, Switzerland, Beethoven's 'Emperor' concerto with the Zakhar Bron Festival Orchestra, conductor Zakhar Bron
March 23-29 Ultimate Concertos Japan Tour
March 3 Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall, South Korea, recital
Feb 3 -11: Japan Tour with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
January 20 - 27 U.S. Tour with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Year 2023
December 12 - 23 2023 Bach-Chopin-Rachmaninov Japan Recital Tour, part 1
December 25 2023 ANA card members special concert
December 1 & 2 20:00 Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall Ravel's Piano Concerto with Hong Kong Philharmonic conducted by Vasily Petrenko
November 18-19 ANA 'aha mele Honolulu, Hawaii
October 18 - 26 Japan Tour with Conductor Klaus Makela & the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
September 29 - October 3 ARK Hills Music Week 2023 at Suntory Hall
September 23 Nobuyuki Tsujii × Fumiaki Miura Chamber Music Special Karuizawa Ohga Hall. Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1, etc.
September 15-18 Mt. Fuji Kawaguchiko Music Festival
September 11 19:00 Aram Khachatryan concert hall. Beethoven-Liszt- Ravel-Kapustin recital, Yerevan, Armenia
September 8 19:30 BBC Proms. Royal Albert Hall, London. Rach 3 with the Royal Liverpool Phil & conductor Domingo Hidoyan
September 1 19:00. Beethoven-Grieg-Liszt recital at Tsinandali festival, Georgia
Aug 10 Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
July 28 - August 4 2023 ARK Sinfonietta Tour
July 13 - 23 Schumann concerto with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Marc Leroy-Calatayud (conductor)
June 14 7:30PM Esplanade Concert Hal Singapore
June 10 Beethoven-Liszt-Ravel-Kapustin recital, Hong Kong
June 7 19:30 Festival Hall, London. Tchai 1 with Vasily Petrenko & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
June 2 & 3 Bergen International Festival, Norway
May 20 - 28 Japan tour with Vasily Petrenko & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra : 8 performances in 9 days.
May 10 & 11 Ottawa, Canada, debut. Rach 2 with conductor Alexander Shelley, & the The National Arts Centre( NAC) Orchestra
April 8, 10 Rach 2 with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Yutaka Sado
April 14, 15, 16 Rachmaninov's Variations on a theme of Paganini with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Yutaka Sado
Dec 8 2022 - March 17 2023 2022-23 Japan Recital Tour
Feb 2, 3, 4, 5 Florida USA. Rach 2 with Sarasota Orchestra and conductor Peter Oundjian
January 26 & 28 Benaroya Hall, Seattle USA. Rach 2 with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra & conductor Jiří Rožeň
Jan 19 Carnegie Hall Classics recital
Year 2022
Nov 19 All Nippon Airways music workshop for Hawaiian school children, Honolulu
Oct 20 - Nov 7 U.K. & Spain Tour (Liverpool, Bilbao)
Oct 8 17:00 1400th anniversary of Prince Shotoku Memorial Dedication Concert
September 30 - October 4 ARK Classics Concerts
September 27 Karuizawa Ohga Hall, Chamber music special with Fumiaki, et al, Brahms' Piano Quartet.
September 22-25 Mt. Fuji Kawaguchiko PIANO FESTIVAL
Sept 10-14 Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto in Japan with Yomiuri & Sebastian Weigle
Nobuyuki Tsujii's 2022 Summer Festivals Schedule
July 27 11:00 - 12:30 2022 Verbier Festival Beethoven-Liszt-Chopin recital
July 28 Musica Mundi
August 1 2022 Biarritz Piano Festival Monday 21:00, Liszt / Chopin program
August 7 19: 30 Snape. U.K. Recital
August 11 21:30 Menton Music Festival, Parvis Saint Michel in Menton, France
August 16 20:00 Rach 2 at the Hollywood Bowl with the La Phil
July 9 - 22 ARK Sinfonietta Japan Tour
June 3 19:00 Suntory Hall Tchai 1 with Naoto Otomo (conductor) Ryukyu Symphony Orchestra
May 15 - 21 Osaka, Nagoya, Nagano, Tokyo CHOPIN Specials
April 25 (was April 12) 19:30 Recital in Seattle, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium - Benaroya Hall CANCELLED
April 28 8PM Chopin 1 with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum, New Jersey REPLACED
April 29 8PM Chopin 1 with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, NYC REPLACED
March 17 Niigata, 19 Yokosuka, 20 Osaka, 21 Hyogo Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov masterpieces
March 15-22 Japan Tour Nobuyuki Tsujii with the Philharmonia & conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali CANCELLED
March 10 19:30 Tchai 1 with the Philharmonia & Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali REPLACED
March 7 19:30 Recital at Liverpool, U.K. ( POSTPONED to November)
March 4 19:30 Recital at Mozart Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna Austria REPLACED
December 1 - Febrary 24 2021/22 Japan Recital Tour
January 17 (Suntory Hall), 22 (Osaka) Piano concerto by Shigeaki Saegusa
Year 2021
November 9 Beethoven-Liszt-Chopin recital at Theatre Champs Elysees, Paris
November 4 & 5 & 7 Shostakovich concerto Milan Auditorium Cariplo Foundation, Milan, Italy
October 17-24 2021 Music and Painting "Impressionism" concerts
October 8-11 2011 ARK Classics at Suntory Hall
September 23-26 Mt. Fuji Kawaguchiko Music Festival
August 27 & 28 Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Fumiaki Miura & the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa
August 13 & 14 The Miyazaki Festival
July 24 11:00 Main Stage Beethoven-Liszt-Chopin recital at Verbier Festival -- CANCELLED
July 26 Musica Mundi Festival, Belgium -- CANCELLED
July 28 Wednesday Biarrittz Piano Festival -- CANCELLED
June 29 - July 14 Nobuyuki Tsujii Premium Recital 2021 ≪ Chopin: Etudes COMPLETE ≫
June 21 Suntory Hall performance with Ryukyu Symphony Orchestra #琉球響
June 4 - June 9 Nobuyuki Tsujii x Fumiaki Miura ARK Sinfonietta
April 3 - 25 The Pianist concerts
March 26 - 31 Ultimate Concertos
March 11 2021 Eastern Japan Support Concert 日本武道館 Nippon Budokan
February 9 Private concert at Suntory Hall, solo & CHOPIN concerto no. 1
January 31 - March 19 2021 "Romanticism" recitals Japan Tour
January 8 2021 Nerima Art Museum "Chopin-Portrait of 200 Years" Commemorative Exhibition: Nobuyuki Tsuji Piano Recital-All Chopin Program"
postponed from June2 2020.
Nobuyuki Tsujii year 2020 concerts Canceled/Postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
November 25 - December 16 2020 CHOPIN recital tour (Japan
Oct 8 - 21 2020 All-Beethoven Recitals Part 1
October 2-4 2020 Ark Classics at Suntory Hall
September 2020 Nobuyuki Tsujii 2020 "The Best" Recital Tour
August 22 2020 Suntory Hall Tchai 1 with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival
July 25 2020 "Original & Classic" Online Concert at the The "TACHIKAWA STAGE GARDEN" and streamed on July 26th by ePlus
June 2020 Online Salon Concert
Nobuyuki Tsujii Private Premium Concert at Suntory Hall Feb 3 2020
January 16 & 17 2020 Oslo Konserthus Nobuyuki Tsujii, Vasily Petrenko in Oslo 2020
Jan 14 2020 Nobuyuki Tsujii at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, 2020
Jan 8 - Mar 2 2020 'Ballade' Japan recital tour
Dec 15 20:19 Nobuyuki Tsujii debuts at the Concertgebouw
Dec 7 2019 Tchai 1 with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergeiv, Tokyo Tchaikovsky Festival
Nov 21 - Dec 8 Impressionist music & paintings concerts in Japan.
Nov 16 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii All Chopin concert for the Fenice Sakai Concert Hall, Osaka
Nov 9 2019 National Festival to celebrate Emperor Naruhito’s coronation, Tokyo
October 31 - Nov 8 2019 Kent Nagano, Hamburg Phil & Nobuyuki Tsujii 2019 Japan Tour
October 27&28 2019 Hamburg Germany with conductor Kent Nagano & the Hamburg Phil
October 23 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii in Hanover, Germany 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii plays BEETHOVEN with the NDR Radio Philharmonie chief conductor Andrew Manze
October 8-14 Chamber music in Japan October 2019 (Kaurizawa October 8, 9; Yasugatke October 13, 14)
October 4 - 6 2019 Ark Classics Concerts at Suntory Hall
September 19, 22 2019 Season Opening concerts for the Liverpool Phil & Mo. Vasily Petrenko -- Rach 2
September 10, 12, 14 the 2019 George Enescu Festival in Romania
September 6 2019 recital in Yereva, Armenia
July 17-28 2019 OEK, Nobu, Patrick Hahn & Lucienne tour Japan
June 28 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii played for the G20 summit 2019 at Osaka
June 11 - Aug 30 Nobuyuki Tsujii's Cliburn Competition 10 Year Anniversary Concerts
May 29, 31 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii at the 2019 White Nights Festival St. Petersburg
May 23-27 2019 Nobu & the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
May 10 2019 20:00 Carnegie Hall recital
May 5 & 6 2019 Miyazaki Festival
April 18-27 2019 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Japan Tour
Nobuyuki Tsujii & Orpheus in Hong Kong & Taiwan, April 12 - 16 2019
April 1 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii at the 2019 Rostropovich Festival in Moscow
December 11 2018 - March 7 2019 Nobuyuki Tsujii "Debussy-Ravel-Chopin" 2018-19 Japan Recital Tour
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Germany February 2019 (Munich, Regensburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Fürth)
January 30 2019 recital at Queen E Hall, London
January 12, 13, 14 First 2019 concerts at Bunkamura, Tokyo
Paris Recital -- December 17 2018
November 3-18 2018 Japan Tour with Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Nobuyuki Tsujii returns to Iceland, October 25 2018
October 5-8 2018 Nobuyuki Tsujii & Fumiaki Miura at the Ark Classics
September 14-21 2018 Nobuyuki Tsujii & the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in USA
August 29 -- Sept 9 2018 "THE PIANIST!" Nobuyuki Tsujii, Fazil Say & Les Freres
Sept 2 2018 Japan-Sweden celebration concert with ROYAL STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and their chief conductor Sakari Oramo
European summer festivals, 2018 (August 5 Kulturufer Friedrichshafen, Germany;August 8 Wednesday Biarritz Piano Festival)
2018 Fumiaki Miura × Nobuyuki Tsujii Duo Recital
Nobuyuki Tsujii at White Nights of St. Petersburg 2018
June 28 Super Soloist Concert - Mozart 21 & 26
Nobu & Yutaka Sado in Austria June 2-5 2018
RLPO 2018 Japan Tour May 11-19 2018
The 2018 Kanazawa "Spring Green Festival" May 3-4 2018 With conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (OEK)
Nobuyuki Tsujii with Petreko & RLPO, April 2018
April 20 2018 Nobuyuki Tsujii's 2018 ICELAND Debut with Ashkenazy & the Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Feb 18- March 28 2018 "Debut 10 Years" Japan recital Tour
March 14 2018 Grieg's concerto with Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tatsuya Shimono
January 21 2018 2017 Super Soloist concert
November 22 - December 17 2017 Music and Painting Concert
Nobuyuki Tsujii 10th Début Anniversary Special Concert November 13 2017
Paris Recital -- October 23 2017
Nobuyuki Tsujii with the Shikoku Phil - September 24 2017 -- a Toyota sponsored community event
Nobuyuki Tsujii with London Phil & Vladimir Jurowski September 2017 Japan Tour
August 25, 26, 27, 30 2017 三浦文彰×辻井伸行デュオ・リサイタル Fumiaki Miura × Nobuyuki Tsujii duo recital
August 9 2017 Primorsky Stage of Mariinsky Theatre , Vladivostok, Russia => Nobuyuki Tsijii in Vladivostok, Russia, August 2017
July 2 - 28 Nobuyuki Tsujii 2017 Premium Recitals 10 performances in Saitama, Osaka,Shimane, Nagano, Aichi, Akita, Yamagata, Tokyo
June 3 - 10 2017 Ultimate Concerto Concerts with violinist Mone Hattori
May 22 2017 7PM City Recital Hall, Sydney, Australia Bach-Mozart-Beethoven recital
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Sydney, May 2017 -- Part2
May 19 2017 8PM, May 20 8PM Sydney Opera House
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with conductor Bramwell Tovey and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Sydney, May 2017- Part 1
April 25 - May 2 2017 Ultimate Concerto Tour Part 1
Nobuyuki Tsujii at Wigmore Hall April 1 2017
February 9-16, 2017 Nobuyuki Tsujii with Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra in France, Germany and Switzerland
February 22-36, 2017 Bach/Mozart/Beethoven rectials in Germany 2017
Dec 14, 2016 -- March 29, 2017 Bach/Mozart/Beethoven Japan Recital Tour
October 27 -- November 8 2016 Japan tour with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe "Best of Mozart"
October 20, 21, 22, 2016: Australia debut with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO)
Nobuyuki Tsujii at the Yatsugatake Kogen Salon Concerts 2016 (August 19 & 20)
"The Pianist 2016" Tour with 加古隆 Kako Takashi (jazz) and レ･フレールLes Freres, July 14-30 2016
Nobuyuki Tsujii & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in U.S. 2016 June 25 Minnesota Beethoven Festival & June 28 in New York's Central Park.
Nobuyuki Tsujii & the Orpheus -- 2016 Japan tour ( June 7 - June 19)
Nobuyuki Tsujii & Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Rach 2 in Miyazaki May 7 2016
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 25 2016 Beethoven's "Emperor" at the Mariinsky Theatre concert hall with conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.
"Emperor" in Liverpool on April 21 and 22 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (RLPO) and conductor Darrell Ang.
Wigmore Hall debut recital in London, April 16 2016
2016 All-Chopin Recital JapanTour Jan 6 - Jan 26 (to resume Mar 17- Mar 30).
Nobuyuki Tsujii toured with the Dresden Philharmonic in Germany March 2-6 2016
"究極の協奏曲 Ultimate Concertos" Japan tour with violinist Miura Fumiaki and Yomuira Nippon Orchestra, February 16 through 28th 2016
Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with conductor Sylvain Cambreling & the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra February 4,5,6 2016 2016
Nobuyuki Tsujii x Valery Gergeiv x Munich Phil 2015 Japan Tour (November 25 - December 1) 2015
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Stuttgart/Munich/Basel, Fall 2015
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Boston October 23-25, 2015 Nobu played Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hal at the season-opening concert of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Los Angeles Oct 20 2015 recital at the Aratani Theatre (880 seats) in Little Tokyo
Nobuyuki Tsujii recital at the Hearst Theater, San Francisco, October 17 2015
Nobuyuki Tsujii September 2015 Japan Tour: "Mozart of Sorrow"
(Own Compositions with Orchestra -- performing his own compositions and "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa) August 23-31, 2015
"Nobuyuki Tsujii & Friends" commemorative concert Nagasaki 2015 August 7, at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the second World War.
2015 Chopin/Liszt Premium Recital Tour July 1 - 26, 2015. Ibaraki, Osaka, Fukushima, Aichi, Nagano, Kyushu (11 performances)
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Austria, May 2015
2015 North America Tour -- Sonoma, California (April 28 - May 2); Edmonton & Winnipeg, Canada (May 5 through May 10)
Chopin/Liszt/Beethoven "Appassionata" Japan recital tour February 17 - April 14, 2015; 23 sold out stops
Nobuyuki Tsujii -Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Japan Tour 2015 a roaring success - 8 stops in 7 cities, January 2015
Fall 2014 Europe Tour: Manchester & Liverpool, U.K.; Berlin & Munich, Germany; October 31 - November 23, 2014
Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Ravel with the OEK, September 10, 11, 12 2014
The 2014 PIANIST Festival, August 2014
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Taipei, July 26, 2014.
Ravel/Chopin "Premier Recitals" Japan Tour, June/July 2014
Olympic concert 2014" in Tokyo on June 6, 2014
Tokyo National Stadium closing ceremony May 31, 2014
Concerts in Switzerland (Baden, Basel) and Germany (Stuttgart, Dusseldorf), May 2014
France debut, recital at the Louvre, April 17, 2014
Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Prokofiev Piano Concerto # 3 with Valery Gergiev at Teatro la Scala, Italy, on March 10 2014. See here.
Nobuyuki Tsujii in U.S.A., April 2014 (Clearwater, Florida; Mobile, Alabama)
2013/14 Japan Recital Tour (Chopin & Liszt) 19 stopsNobuyuki Tsujii & the Orpheus in U.S., 2014 - news, photos, comments
Nobu returns to Carnegie Hall, Jan 25, 2014 - news, photos, comments - I was there!
Nobuyuki Tsujii & the Orpheus in Japan, 2014 - news, photos, comments
Nobuyuki Tsujii wowed them in Udine, Italy with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andriy Yurkevych Nov. 9, 2013
Nobuyuki Tsujii at the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall Nov 6, 2013
Nobuyuki Tsujii played "Grieg" with the BBC Philharmonic, Nov 1 2013
Nobuyuki Tsujii's Impressive Baltimore Debut - October 18-20, 2013
Nobuyuki & Ashkenazy 2013 Japan Tour (September, 2013 - I was there!)
2013 BBC Proms Debut (July 16, 2013) in Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom.
2013 South-East Asia Tour Vietnam (June 19), Singapore (June 25) Tailwan (June 26-28)
2013 Nobuyuki Tsujii - Yutaka Sado - BBC Phil tour (12 sold-out stops)
Nobuyuki Tsujii 2012-13 Japan Tour (Debussy/Chopin recital - Oct 10, 2012 through June 14, 2013, 36 sold-out stops)
Turin, Italy 2013 - April 8
Early 2013 North America Tour (Jan 18 - March 23, 2013) with stops at Winnepeg, Seattle, Fort Worth, Vancouver, Fort Collins (Colorado), Allentown (Pennsylvania), Rockport (Rhode Island), Athens (Georgia), and Stuart (Florida)
Nobuyuki Tsujii (Нобуюки Цудзи) in St. Petersburg, July 2012
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Europe, May 2012 - in May 2012, Nobu returned to Europe, performing concerti in Switzerland, Poland and England, to great acclaims.
Nobuyuki Tsujii in Europe, Spring 2012 -- in March 2012, Nobu performed in England, France, Germany and Austria
Carnegie Hall Nov. 10 2011 カーネギーホールでのリサイタルが
Mozart-OEK Tour -Sept 2011, Japan
N-Hope Concert, Sept 4 2011 Nobu performed Tchaikovsky's concerto No. 1 with the NHK symphony orchestra
Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto (Tokyo) - June 2011
2011 Spring North America Tour
Manchester, England -- February 2011
December 2010 U.K. debut with the BBC Phil & Yutaka Sado
October 2010 US Tour, with Corpus Christa orchestra October 8 2010