percussion
Biography:
ISAO NAKAMURA, born in Osaka (Japan) in 1958, made his Japanese debut at the age of eight Matsuridrum at the festival in Japan. He studied with K. Muramoto, M. Aruga, M. Takahashi and B. Wulff at the Tokyo University of the Arts and at the Freiburg University of Music.
Concert tours have taken Nakamura through Europe and East Asia, where he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician, e.g. Works by John Cage, Heinz Holliger, Toshio Hosokawa, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Hans Ulrich Lehmann, Luigi Nono, Wolfgang Rihm and Karlheinz Stockhausen performed. As a soloist he has performed with many orchestras (including the BR, WDR, SR and SWR Symphony Orchestras, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra) with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, Peter Eötvös, Rupert Huber, Steven Sloane, Jonathan Stockhammer, Kazushi Ono and Ken Takaseki. Nakamura has performed at many international festivals. In addition to radio productions, he has recorded numerous CDs. In 1995 he founded the duo conflict with the Korean pianist Kaya Han, in 2006 he founded the Isao Nakamura Percussion Ensemble. Many composers have composed works for him, e.g. Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Peter Eötvös, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Robert HP Platz, Gerhard Stäbler, Nikolaus Richter de Vroe, Thomas Lauck and Bernfried Pröve.
In 1986 Isao Nakamura was awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize, in 1992 the Aoyma Music Prize (special prize) and in 2004 the Saji Keizo Prize. For many years he was a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1994-2006) and at the Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Music Festival in Japan (1991-1998). Isao Nakamura has been a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 1992. He is Yamaha Artist and visiting professor at the Kyoto City University of the Arts.
Albums:
Isao Nakamura plays Works for Solo Percussion:
43rd International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt 2006:
