JAPANESE CLASSICAL PIANIST and composer, Nobuyuki ‘Nobu’ Tsujii, will be performing  a special piano recital at Parliament House this evening to mark the 40th anniversaries of the ‘Basic Treaty’ between Japan and Australia and the establishment of the Australia-Japan Foundation.

Described by “The Observer” as the “definition of virtuosity”, Mr Tsujii, who has been blind from birth, won the joint Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009 and has gone on to earn an international reputation for the passion and excitement he has brought to  his live performances in venues as different as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, London’s Royal Albert Hall and the Berlin’s Philharmonie.

A live DVD recording of Nobu’s 2011 Carnegie Hall recital was named DVD of the Month by Gramophone, as was his latest DVD release, “Touching the Sound – The Improbable Journey of Nobuyuki Tsujii”, a documentary film by Peter Rosen.

To mark the signing of The Basic Treaty in 1976 by then Prime Ministers Takeo Miki and Malcolm Fraser, the 27-year-old Nobu will play a special recital for invited guest featuring works by Debussy, Ravel and Chopin.

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