Shigeo Neriki ( Japanese 練 木 繁 夫 , Neriki Shigeo , born 1951 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese pianist.
Shigeo Neriki began playing the piano at the age of three and appeared at the age of five in a concert televised nationwide. After training at the Tōhō Gakuen College of Music at Masayasu Oshima , he went to the United States in 1971 to study at Indiana University with György Sebök . In 1976, he won the first prize in the Tucson Piano Competition , three years later, the first prize at the Three Rivers International Competition in Pittsburgh.
He has appeared at many orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, the Japan Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra . On the occasion of the bicentenary of the United States, he played in Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto in front of 400,000 listeners in Boston. His appearance with Prokofiev's third piano concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional in Mexico under Enrique Diemecke in 1991 was considered by the critics as the best concert of the season. In 1987 he undertook as a soloist a Japanese tour with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. His performance, a piano concerto by Bartók with the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, was a great success.
Since 1976, Shigeo Neriki has worked regularly with cellist János Starker, with whom he gave concerts worldwide and recorded for Dennon, Delos, Star and RCA Victor Red Seal. A recording of works by David Poppers in 1990 was nominated for a Grammy Award . He appeared as a chamber musician in Europe, Asia and North America, and was a regular guest at the Festival of the Future in Switzerland and the Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan. In 1991 he founded the quartet Tokyo Soloists with violinist Hamao Fujiwara . In 1992, he was invited to a private concert in front of the Japanese Emperor and his family, the following year it received the Suntory Music Award .
Shigeo Neriki is the professor of piano at the Music School of Indiana University in Bloomington. In addition, he regularly gives master classes at the Tōhō Gakuen College of Music and the Kunitachi Academy of Music in Tokyo, the Sōai College in Osaka and the Elizabeth University of Music in Hiroshima.
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