Junya Nakata (Piano)

©Yoshinobu Fukaya
©Yoshinobu Fukaya

Graduated from the Piano Department of the Kunitachi College of Music.

He enrolled in the Municipal Music School of Milan, Italy in 2003. In 2005, he was selected to participate in the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program as corepetiteur(*) and returned to Milan.

He performed in the Teatro Scientifico of Mantova in 2004 to great reviews.

He studied Italian diction and traditional musical interpretation for 3 years in Italy under C. Camerini (former artistic director of La Scala), P.Berlino (corepetiteur of La Scala), orchestra conducting under C. Zappa and vocal expression under G. Lorumi.

 

After returning to Japan, he works not only as a pianist, but as a corepetiteur for opera and as a conductor.

In 2009, he was corepetiteur to Jose Carreras’ performance of Mozart’s REQUIEM. IN 2011, he conducted Puccini’s GIANNI SCHICCHI. He has studied orchestra conducting under Yutaka Hoshide and Hidekazu Himoto.

 

In the area of Japanese songs, he studied under Yoshio Tsukada and Sadako Seki and has been participating in the Japanese Song Series at the Ongaku no Tomo Hall since 2007. He has been praised as “a pianist who fully understands the breathing technique of singing”. In the area of instrumental music, he has performed with master violinists such as Iwao Furusawa, Atsuko Tenma and Yasunao Ishida.

 

Presently, he is a part time lecturer at Showa University of Music, pianist at the Nikikai Opera Institute and member of the music staff of the New National Theater since 2007.

 

Radio NHK-FM “Lady Saturday Go” (with Whee Jine)

TV NHK “Shutoken Network” (with Norie Suzuki)

“Ururun Taizaiki” (with Norie Suzuki)

NHK “Studio Park” (with Hiroko Koda)

Film “Kinpatu no Sougenn” directed by Isshin Inudo (musical performance coaching)

 

(*) Corepetiteur – Pianist who plays during opera rehearsals, coaches and trains singers and, in some cases acts as conductor. A corepetiteur must be able to sight-read, analyze a musical piece and understand foreign languages. There are many famous conductors who started their careers as corepetiteurs, like Karajan and Solti.