Kenichi Nishizawa
Composer. and sometimes, pianist
At age 15, he began his study in piano and composition. In 1996, he was accepted to Kunitachi College of Music, but leaves after a year of study. His main teachers included Hideo Mizokami and Motoharu Kawashima. Amongst many awards, Nishizawa received Promotion Award at the 3rd Fukui Harp Music Award in the composition division in August of 1998, and January of 1999, was awarded the First Prize, Kodama Prize at the 5th International Competition of Piano Duo Music Composition in Tokyo. This duo piece was selected as the required piece for the 5th Piano Duo Competition. He receivedthe First Prize at the 4th Tokyo International Composition Competition of Chamber Music in December of 1999. His other activties include his very first private exhibition concert in Brussels, Belgium (May, adn June 2001), the highly acclaimed premiere of Kammersymphonie für 7 Instrumentsten at the Festival Sinaloa de las Artes 2001 in Mexico, and the premiere of Première Sonate pour Guitare seul at the 18th Tsukuba International Music Festival (2002) . In December of 2002, he held his first private exhibition concert in Japan at the Tsuda Hall in Tokyo.
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le ciel Bleu pour Marimba et Piano op.16 (2000) by Kenichi Nishizawa
SINSKE (Sinsuke Ishihara) : Marimba
Yasuko Takahashi : Piano
Recorded in Brussels, Belgium. 2001 Live.
“le ciel Bleu” (means “Blue Sky”) was commissioned by and dedicated to SINSKE who is very popular marimbist of young generation in Japan. From the premiere, many Japanese marimbists selected this piece on themselves concert. This Audio file recorded on Nishizawa’s very first private exhibition concert. We sell sheet music of this piece at Payloadz, and music source of all of this concert at “iTunes store”
http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=902020
http://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/holy-garden-vol.1/id456752716
“LUCKY PIANO”
When I’ve been in Kagoshima-shi, Japan last summer, I met this piano which was painted by students of an art school, at a shopping district which was near the Kagoshima-Chuo station. A souvenir shop’s master taught me and said anybody can play this. Of course, I played this with my composition pieces. Then, an old man who was (maybe) taking a walk stood by me in front, and listened to my music, quietly. After him, a ramen shop’s master was coming here too, and a bar’s master was coming here too, and an unidentified man was coming here too. Everyone stood by me and listened to my music, quietly. When I stopped playing, they came back them daily world, quietly. Sakurajima an active volcano near here made this piano rickety, but this piano made me so happy. People said, sometimes unknown musician have a concert with this piano like a guerrilla.
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Klaviertrio Nr.2
Piano Trio No.2 Op.18 by Kenichi Nishizawa
I : Choral : Religiös und antiquiert. Sehr langsam. attacca:
II : Stürmisch und heftig. Rasch. attacca:
III : Menuett : Rätselhaft. Mäßig. attacca:
IV : Fließend aber trotzig. Sehr rasch
Composed in : 2000.12
Instrumentation : Violin, Cello, Piano
Duration : 18’00”
Commissioned by and dedicated to : St. Florian Trio (Motoko Mito : Violin, Yosuke Ozawa : Cello, Phillip Young : Piano)
Premiere : April 2001 Tokyo
This is the one of a most popular piece of Nishizawa’s composition. was favorably well received from the premiere, and getting a many repeat performance.(e.g. ; The 33rd Cervantino International festival in Mexico by Yuriko Kuronuma 2005. An Evening of Chamber Music with The Guadagnini Ensemble in Blackheath Halls, London 2011.) This audio file which is premiere of this piece was recorded in April 2001, on St. Florian Trio Recital at Tokyo.All movements of this piece are included. We sell sheet music of this piece at “Payloadz” .
Yosuke Ozawa, cellist, web site. http://www.ozawa-y.com/
Drei Stücke für Klavier zu Vier Händen
Three pieces for Piano 4 hands op.65 by Kenichi Nishizawa
I : “Barkarole” Nicht schnell
II : “Ländler” Etwas schnell - Rasch,
III : ”Polonäse” Sehr lebhaft
Composed in : 2007.12
Instrumentation : Pno(4 hands)
Duration : 12’00”
This movie was recorded in March 2008 on Duo Frösche (Primo : Mika Sato, Secondo : Kenichi Nishizawa)concert at Saitama, Japan. Another movement of this piece are also on YouTube. We sell sheet music of this piece at “Payloadz” and music source of all of this concert at “iTunes store”
