Nobuhito Nakai
Japanese Pianist Nobuhito Nakai graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and finished graduate school also, after that finished meisterclass at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich on a scholarship of DAAD, He studied with Prof.Ueda, Prof. Oppitz, Prof.Kaemmerling.
Nakai won the prize at many competitions, Music Competition of Japan, Johannes Brahms International Music Competition, International Piano Competition ‘Citta di Senigallia’, G. B. Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli, and M.Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (U.S.A.) with his wife Miwako Takeda.
He performed piano concerto, solo recital, piano duo recital, chamber music and lied accompany in Japan, Europe and USA. Specially he played Brahms’s complete piano works of solo and duo. As a Piano duo team with Miwako Takeda gave the numerous concerts. He appeared TV, Radio, serialized in a Music magazine, and released solo CD “Brahms” and piano duo CDs “Mozart” “Rachmaninoff Suites” “Brahms / Hungarian Dances & Waltzes” “Fantasie”. They are highly appreciated, and selected All Nippon Airways (ANA) audio channel.
He is a partner artist of the Fukoku mutual life insurance. In 2014 got the Takehiko Kurushima culture award and teaches’ award of many competitions.
He is also dedicated to education, actively engaging in masterclasses, competition juries, and advisory lessons. He has been involved in prestigious programs such as the Master Course at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Trossingen University of Music (Germany), the MusicAlp International Music Academy (France), the Talent Summer Courses (Italy), the Jirisan International Music Festival (Korea), as well as seminars at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, and in Suzhou (China). Additionally, he contributes to the Ishikawa Music Academy and various other educational initiatives.
Nakai is a professor of Toho Gakuen Schho of Music, and a guest professor of Nagoya College of Music. He is a guest professor at Music Hochschule Detmold in Germany in winter season 2022.