Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat major, Op.110
Piano Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor, Op.27-2
Piano Sonata No.30 in E major, Op.109
Takayuki Mihara, piano
Recorded at Watanabe Memorial Hall on April 3-5, 2022
Producer & Director Akira Naito
Piano Technician Tadayuki Matsunaga
Balance Engineer Hiroshi Senuma
Recording Engineer Hanae Saito
Piano: Steinway & Sons, Hamburg Model D
owned by Matsunaga Piano Co., Ltd.
Graduated from Kaisei Junior and Senior High School. Graduated from the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University. Doctoral student at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Keio University.
From the age of two, I was taught to play the piano by my mother and won many prizes in competitions. After studying with Shoko Sugitani, I was fascinated by the gentle yet powerful music played by her on the piano, and was thoroughly taught to pursue beautiful sounds. I performed with the Prima Vista String Quartet and the Polish Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, and became passionate about bringing out the variety of tones from the piano. Winning the third prize in the junior high school section at the 2009 Asia International Music Competition and the first prize in the junior high school section at the same competition in 2010, I has performed at home and abroad, including at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music and at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where I performed in the competition winners' concert. In 2010, I also won a prize at the 1st European International Piano Competition in Japan in the special prize category, and has been studying to acquire the genuine musical perspective that Shoko Sugitani has spent her life working on. In recent years, I has performed solo concerts at the request of the church and the university I has attended, and has given concerts with students of Shoko Sugitani, and has also performed in a concert by the Kaisei Piano Enthusiasts' Association.
I have studied with Nobumichi Koyanagi at The Music School attached to the Musashino Academia Musicae, with Kuniko Yamamoto at Toho Gakuen School of Music, The Music School for Children, and with Shoko Sugitani.