Nobuyuki Tsujii

Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:03:52 -0400

Nobuyuki Tsujii (pronounced No-boo-you-key Soo-gee) was born blind but was gifted with a talent for music. At the age of two, he began to play Jingle Bells on a toy piano after his mother had been humming the tune. He began his formal study of piano at the age of four.
In 1995, at the age of seven, Tsujii won the first prize at the All Japan Music of Blind Students by the Tokyo Helen Keller Association. In 1998, at age ten, he debuted with The Century Orchestra Osaka. He gave his first piano recital in the small hall of Tokyo's Suntory Hall at age 12. He made his debut overseas with performances in the United States, France, and Russia.
In 2009 Tsujii competed in the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and tied for the gold medal with Haochen Zhang. He was also awarded the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work.

Enjoy this extraordinary and rousing performance from the 13th Cliburn by this young pianist from Japan that resulted in audience fervor that has taken on a momentum Time Magazine has coined “Nobu Fever.”

For Complete Nobuyuki Biography Click: HERE
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