Hailed by Japanese music magazine as “The variety of tones evokes the vastness of nature and its communion with mankind” Japanese pianist, Takumi Nashimoto, performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Japan and Hungary.

He was born into a family of music-lover, and received an early start on the piano and composition at the age of 3. Since then, from 2014, the age of 18, he started studies in Tokyo University of the Arts and got numerous opportunities for performance as a professional pianist such as “La Folle Journée TOKYO”.

He has won numerous awards, including first place throughout all categories in the Nagano Piano Competition(2009) and second prize with special awards in the “Nohant Festival Chopin in Japan competition”(2024).

In recent seasons, Takumi Nashimoto has performed concerti with world-class orchestra and conductors, including Mozart’s 20. Piano Concerto with Maestro Hubert Soudant and ensemble NOVA, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Gábor Horváth and the Budapest Faironi Chamber Orchestra. In addition, he performed in triple piano ensemble, using 3 Steinway Concert Grands, with invitation as a pianist and arranger three times.

Takumi Nashimoto has studied with Kálmán Dráfi at the Liszt Academy of Music in 2018-2021 as a scholarship holder of “Stipendium Hungaricum” and “China Bank Budapest”. He earned the Master of degree in piano performance and the Highly Specialized Piano Soloist Diploma as a principal.

In 2022, his first CD “Kotonoha Music” was released in Studio N.A.T. Takumi Nashimoto is active as a solo pianist and chamber musician as well as a collaborator with other genres of arts such as architecture, painting, TV animation, etc.