The Festival Symphony Playbill features a unique concert with Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, for whom it will be his first performance in Vladivostok. This top-class musician has proved by his own example that real talent has neither borders, nor barriers, having become a real phenomenon in the world of classical music.
On 9 August Tsujii Nobuyuki will take part in a concert by the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under the baton of Valery Gergiev. “For me - every time to play with him is a wonder.” said Maestro Gergiev at the press-conference on the II International Mariinsky Far East Festival. “This time we have managed to arrange his performance in Vladivostok. It will be a special concert and I hope we can wow everybody who comes”.
The concert programme includes Beethoven's grandiose Concerto No.5, in which the composer surpassed everything that had been created for solo piano before. The breadth of content, unprecedented power, energy and virtuosity have made the Fifth Concerto one of the most loved and frequently performed works of classical repertoire.
Rodion Shchhedrin’s opera The Enchanted Wanderer based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel of the same title, which will be presented in concert performance in the first part of the evening by the Mariinsky Theatre soloists, has become one of the most in-demand performances both in St Petersburg and abroad. The Vladivostok premiere of the opera is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Due to an eye disorder Nobuyuki Tsujii was born blind but with a phenomenal musical talent, which was discovered by his mother at a very early age. At 12 he performed at such legendary concert venues as the Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Carnegie Hall in New York but was brought into international spotlight by his triumphant victory at the 13th International Van Cliburn Piano Competition in 2009. Now, Nobuyuki Tsujii performs with celebrated orchestras and conductors, his CDs break sales records and crows of his fans are dying to get to the pianist’s concerts. In 2014, Touching the Sound - The Improbable Journey by Nobuyuki Tsujii, a documentary film by Director Peter Rosen was named “DVD of the Month” by Gramophone magazine.
