Yukio yokoyama biography

Yukio Yokoyama (1971) was.
The Japanese pianist, Yukio Yokoyama, took up the piano in early childhood, showing an early talent for the instrument and for composition.
Yukio Yokoyama was born in Tokyo in 1971.

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Yukio Yokoyama Piano Recital -Copin-

Yukio Yokoyama was born in Tokyo in 1971. Already as a child he played pieces of his own composition and performed with orchestras both in Japan and abroad. At that time he received advice from such personalities as Karajan and Rostropovich.
At the age of 12 he started studying piano under Jun Date and composition under Masayuki Nagatomi. In 1984, he won the first prize in the piano division of the All Japan Student Music Concours sponsored by the newspaper Mainichi Shimbun.
He entered the high school associated to the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in 1986, and in the following year went to study at the Paris Music Conservatoire Collegium with a scholarship from the French Government. There, he studied under Jacques Rouvier, Vlado Perlmuter and others.
In 1989 he won prizes at the Busconi International Concours and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibeaud Concours. 　

　 In 1990 he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with grants of Premiere Prix in piano and chamber music and the same year won third prize(no first prize was allocate

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Biography Yukio Yokoyama, Mao Fujita, Yukine Kuroki

Yukio Yokoyama
was born in Tokyo in 1971. Already as a child he played pieces of his own composition and performed with orchestras both in Japan and abroad. At that time he received advice from such personalities as Karajan and Rostropovich.

Since beginning an illustrious career as an international concert pianist over 20 years ago, among many other achievements Yokoyama has released more than 30 CDs to great critical acclaim. His “Liszt’s Etudes of Transcendental Techniques”, produced by Grammy nominated producer, Wolf Erichson, and released by Sony, won the 25th International Liszt Grand Prix.

The live recordings of Yokoyama performing Beethoven’s complete solo works, also released by Sony, includes 32 Sonatas and Beethoven’s entire major piano works such as the Bagatels and all the Variations. Recognized and awarded by the Agency of Cultural Affairs, this brilliant CD set is absolutely outstanding.

Guiness Book of World Records: In a single day in 2010, Yokoyama performed 166 of Chopin’s solo works, incl

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Yukio Yokoyama

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Yukio Yokoyama ( 1971 ) was born in Tokyo, Japan. He was a prodigious young talent and his career launched when he finished 3rd in the 1990 Chopin competition that had no first prize. He would go on to record the complete solo works of Chopin and Beethoven. He had an astonishing achievement of performing all of Chopin's 212 works during a single concert.

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Composers

Bach, Johann Sebastian
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Brahms, Johannes
Busoni, Ferruccio

Chopin, Frédéric
Clérisse, Robert

Damase, Jean-Michel
Debussy, Claude
Devienne, François

Fauré, Gabriel
Franck, César

Gade, Niels W
Gershwin, George
Grieg, Edvard

Haneda, Kentarō

Jeanjean , Faustin
Jeanjean, Paul

Kato, Masanori
Kuffner, Joseph

Lancen, Serge
Lekeu, Guillaume
Liszt, Franz

Moszkowski, Moritz
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus