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NODAIRA Ichiro(Japan)

Jury Chairperson, Piano Section

After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts and its graduate school in composition, he studied at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris as a French Government scholarship student. As a pianist, he has been performing as a soloist with orchestras around the world. Also as a chamber musician, he collaborates with numerous world renowned artists. In recent years, he performs and conducts piano concertos and is also active as a conductor including his own compositions as a repertoire. He was the first Artistic Director of Tokyo Sinfonietta.

He has composed over 200 works, and some of them were commissioned by Ministry of Culture in France, Ensemble InterContemporain, IRCAM, and National Theatre of Japan. Recent works he composed include the chamber opera “Exile” at Suntory Hall, premiering project “Shizuoka-Trilogie I -III (I: Mémoire et Dialogue, II: Le voyage infini, III: Le Chant d’instant et d’eternité)” (NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo) at Shizuoka Granship, Au seuil du monde indicible pour orchestra (Orchestra Nipponica), Paysages en ruine (The Taiwan Music Institute, National Center for Traditional Arts), and “Le temps tissé IV ~Yokohama modernité~ pour orchestra” (Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra). His compositions are enthusiastically accepted.

He has received many awards including the 13th Nakajima Kenzo Music Award, the 44th and 61st Otaka Prize, the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists by the Ministry of Education, the 11th Kyoto Prize Music Award (practical category), the 35th Suntory Music Award, the 55th Art Encouragement Prize by the Ministry of Education, the Japan Art Academy Prize , and the 52nd ENEOS Music Award Western Classical Music Division . As the Music Advisor of the Yasushi Akutagawa Memorial Orchestra Nipponica , he received the Yoshio Sagawa Music Award, in addition to receiving the 21st Keizo Saji Prize (2021) for conducting the same orchestra during the “38th concert Teizo Matsumura: Symphonic Works Exhibition.” In spring of 2012 he was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon. He has been designated as a member of the Japan Art Academy. He also is a council member of contemporary musical creation at La Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.

He is currently Chairperson of La Société Fauré du Japon, Music Director of Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and Jury Chairperson of Piano Section of the Sendai International Music Competition. He serves as Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts and President at Tokyo College of Music.

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