Dai Fujikura’s latest release on his Minabel label is “Akiko’s Piano”.2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing, and the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Akiko’s Piano - Piano Concerto No. 4 took place in Hiroshima on August 5 and 6 in 2020. The performance was given by Tatsuya Shimono, conducting the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, and Hiroshima-born pianist Mami Hagiwara as the soloist. This work was inspired by the story of Akiko Kawamoto, a girl who lost her life to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima when she was 19 years old, and her piano, which was miraculously survived the bomb. Fujikura researched and read Akiko's (and her father’s) diaries and composed the work on Akiko’s Piano itself. The piano concerto was completed in 2019.
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| 01 | Akiko’s Piano – Piano Concerto no. 4 | Akiko’s Piano – Piano Concerto no. 4 | 21:14 |
Dai Fujikura’s latest release on his Minabel label is “Akiko’s Piano”.
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing, and the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Akiko’s Piano - Piano Concerto No. 4 took place in Hiroshima on August 5 and 6 in 2020.
The performance was given by Tatsuya Shimono, conducting the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, and Hiroshima born pianist Mami Hagiwara as the soloist.
This work was inspired by the story of Akiko Kawamoto, a girl who lost her life to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima when she was 19 years old, and her piano, which was miraculously survived the bomb.
It has been 3 years since the initial concept was born. Fujikura researched and read Akiko's (and her father’s) diaries and composed the work on Akiko’s Piano itself. The piano concerto was completed in 2019.
Akiko’s Piano – Piano Concerto No. 4 was commissioned by Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra
Live recording from the world premiere performances on August 5th & 6th 2020 in Hiroshima “Music for Peace Concert”
Composed, edited, mixed and mastered by Dai Fujikura
Born in 1977 in Osaka Japan, Dai Fujikura was fifteen when he moved to the UK. The recipient of many composition prizes, he has received numerous international co-commissions from the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms, Bamberg Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and more. He has been Composer-in-Residence of Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra since 2014 and held the same post at the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France in 2017/18. Dai’s first opera Solaris, co-commissioned by the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra de Lausanne and the Opéra de Lille, had its world premiere in Paris in 2015 and has since gained a worldwide reputation. A new production of Solaris was created and performed at the Theatre Augsburg in 2018, and the opera received a subsequent staging in 2020.
In 2017, Dai received the Silver Lion Award from the Venice Biennale. In the same year, he was named the Artistic Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater’s Born Creative Festival.
In 2019, his Shamisen Concerto was premiered at Mostly Mozart festival in New York Lincoln Center and there have so far been 9 performances of this work by various orchestras.
In 2020, his fourth piano concerto Akiko’s Piano is to be premiered by Martha Argerich and Dai is currently composing his third opera, which will be revealed to the public in the same year.
His works are recorded by and released mainly on his own label Minabel Records in collaboration with SONY Music and his compositions are published by Ricordi Berlin.
http://www.daifujikura.comNew Focus Recordings is an artist led collective label featuring releases in contemporary creative music of many stripes, as well as new approaches to older repertoire. The label was founded by guitarist Dan Lippel, composer Peter Gilbert in 2004, and composer/engineer Ryan Streber in 2004, formed …Read More …
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