de Blasiis Chamber Music Series 2026-27 Season:
Sunday, October 25, 2026, 3pm
The Helen Froehlich Auditorium at the Hyde Collection
Pianist
Kotaro Fukuma
de Blasiis Music Director: Charles Peltz
Born
in Tokyo, Kotaro Fukuma began learning piano at the age of five and has
received many high awards in international competitions, including the Arthur
Rubinstein, Tel Aviv; Paloma O’Shea, Santander; Maj Lind, Helsinki; BNDES, Rio
De Janeiro; and Gina Bachauer, Salt Lake City. In 2003, at the age of 20,
Kotaro won both First Prize and the Chopin Prize at the 15th Cleveland
International Piano Competition. Since then his concert career has developed in
over 35 countries on five continents (North and South America, Europe, Africa
and Asia). Mr.Fukuma has performed in major concert venues, including Carnegie
Hall and Lincoln Center, New York City and many more. Kotaro studied music at
the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Bruno Rigutto and
Marie-Françoise Bucquet, then at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Klaus
Hellwig and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. He also has
studied with several great masters of the piano, including Leon Fleisher,
Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Leslie
Howard and Aldo Ciccolini.
Program: “The World of Transcriptions”
Bach – Kempff : Sicilienne BWV 1031 Bach – Hess : Choral « Jésus, que ma joie demeure BWV 147
Bach – Kempff : Sicilienne BWV 1031
Bach – Hess : Choral « Jésus, que ma joie demeure » BWV 147
Mozart – Fukuma : Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525
1. Allegro, 2. Romanze : Andante,
3. Menuetto : Allegretto, 4. Rondo : Allegro
Schubert - Liszt : Ständchen, Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Liszt : La Campanella (from Grandes Etudes de Paganini)
Intermission
Wagner – Fukuma : Prelude from “Tristan und Isolde”
Wagner – Liszt : Isoldes Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde”
Debussy – Borwick : Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun )
Smetana - Fukuma : The Moldau
90 minutes in length
