Kotaro Fukuma
- January 9, 2024
- Pianist
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Kotaro Fukuma Biography
| Name | Kotaro Fukuma |
| Birthday | Aug 29 |
| Birth Year | 1982 |
| Place Of Birth | Tokyo |
| Home Town | Tokyo |
| Birth Country | Japan |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Kotaro Fukuma is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on August 29, 1982 in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In solo piano, chamber music and concertos, Fukuma has acquired a substantial and varied repertoire of no less than forty concertos. He has played rare concertos such as those of Englund (1955), MacDowell, James MacMillan and Hermann Goetz. He also plays the concerto for 2 pianos by Takemitsu.
Fukuma also likes to perform with other artists in shows that combine figure skating (Ice Legends, Fantasy on Ice, in 2014, 2015, 2016, with Stéphane Lambiel) or theatre (Le Rappel des Oiseaux – after Gogol’s Diary of a Madman, with Paris Opera star dancer Mathieu Ganio, directed by Orianne Moretti – Paris 2016 and 2018).
In July 2016 he played Brahms’ Concerto No. 2 “at the last minute” in replacement of Nelson Freire suffering, with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under the direction of Tugan Sokhiev at La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse.
In 2013, he won the Chopin Prize in Japan. He replaced Hélène Grimaud in the concert series “Grandes Pianistas” at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago. He also performed at La Folle Journée in Tokyo in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018 – in recital or with orchestra.
Kotaro Fukuma Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Pianist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kotaro Fukuma is one of the richest Pianist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kotaro Fukuma 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Kotaro Fukuma (born 29 August 1982 in Tokyo) is a Japanese classical pianist.
At the Conservatoire de Paris, Fukuma was a pupil of Bruno Rigutto and Marie- Françoise Bucquet. He won his first piano prize in 2005. He was awarded a prize at the age of 14 in a competition for young pianists in Salt Lake City. He then decided to become a professional. Second Prize at the Maj Lind Competition in Helsinky in 2001, he won the 1st Prize and the Chopin Prize at the age of 20 at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2003. In 2008, he won third prize at the Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition in Santander.
Fukuma is the youngest pianist to have recorded at the age of 25 in 2007 the complete Albéniz’ Iberia published in Japan by Harmony Japan in 2008 and published for the world outside Japan by Éditions Hortus in 2012. His recordings have been praised in most trade magazines (such as Gramophone in Great Britain) or in the daily press, particularly in France in the evening newspaper Le Monde which, in its edition dated Tuesday 30 September 2014, attributed to Kotaro Fukuma “magician fingers” about the Dumka record, and in books about piano.
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