Classical Piano Lesson by experienced pianist (piano/fortepiano)

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First of all, I am glad that you found my information here. Unfortunately I'm not pleased that I often find some very bad amateurs try to fake themselves as they are professional pianist or teacher. They display themself fancy as they want since this labor isn't required a certification when it's private lessons. Beginners can not really decide if they are good or not. It is risky for motivated students. I have got some students through this site after having lessons by those fake teachers and I had to do so much work to re-start from the beginning with them.

Personally I was struggling to play the piano as well due to my first piano teacher who couldn't teach me properly at all. Several years later, I had rare luck to found better teachers who have certain experiences as concert pianists. I started trying to get rid of my bad behaviors and rebuild new technique over 10 years on the piano. It takes so much time to get rid of.. It was tough work but now I can really tell you what it was and you can see some results on my videos here. I got very conscious of using my body proper way while practicing and I got more flexibilities on the piano. Let me share what I can do with you.

Biography
Shintaro is considered a unique pianist as performing modern and historical pianos parallel. He spent his childhood and student years in Japan. He already received first prizes at several known national piano competitions in Japan while he was studying at Kyoto City University of Arts. In the year of his master's graduation, he gave a solo recital in Kyoto, and his recital was considered as one of the best performances of over 200 concerts in the year by the AOYMA Music Foundation. He earned The AOYAMA Music Awards in 2010 and graduated master of piano performance in KCUA with summa cum laude. He continued his career as a soloist with several professional orchestras in Japan. Some of those concerts were broadcast on TV and radio. Shintaro continued studying the piano at Lucerne Conservatory with Konstantin Lifschitz supported by Hella Siegrist Fonds and AOYMA Music Foundation. He performed the Left-hand concerto by Ravel with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and James Gaffigan in KKL Lucerne Concert Hall in 2014.

"A brilliant pianist with solid technique and sensitivities" - Luzerner Zeitung 2014
“Elegantly and with creative power, Shintaro presented Mozart's Piano Concerto in E-flat Major KV 449, the layers of sound always audible, the dynamics balanced. It was surprising that the jury awarded him second prize. “ - Freiburger Nachrichten 2015

At the same time, his interests carried forward him to play chamber music, Lied duo, and historical practices on historical fortepianos. He received the first prize at the Orpheus-Swiss Chamber Music Competition participated by master students of all Swiss conservatories in 2014, and the second prize at The Rotary International in Lugano. Shintaro moved to the Netherlands in 2015, and he completed his master of fortepiano (historical pianos) at The Hague Royal Conservatory. He has worked as an accompanist and ensemble pianist for the Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestra, Opera2day, Residentie Orkest in Den Haag, Noord Nederlands Orkest. He also performed Brahms's “Deutsch Requiem” with Shuann Chai on historical piano and Luthers Bach Choir on the tour in 2020, "Mad King" by Maxwell Davies in New European Ensemble on the tour in 2021, a chamber music concert with François Fernandez and Yun Kyung Kim at the Beethoven Festival in 2022.
Shintaro is a member of the New European Ensemble for the new opera “Don Quichot” by Vanni Moretto (composer) and Stefano Pintor (Librettist) collaborated with Opera2day and La Fonte Musica in the tour 2023.

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Spui, The Hague, Netherlands

About Me

I am glad that you found my information here.
Often I find some very bad amateurs fake themselves as they are professional pianist or teacher. They display themself fancy as they want since this labor isn't required a certification. Beginners can not really decide if they are good or not. It is risky for motivated students. I have got some students through this site after having lessons by those fake teachers and I had to do so much work to re-start from the beginning with them.

Personally I was struggling to play the piano as well due to my first piano teacher who couldn't teach me properly at all. Several years later, I had rare luck to found better teachers who have certain experiences as concert pianists. I started trying to get rid of my bad behaviors and rebuild new technique over 10 years on the piano. It takes so much time to get rid of.. It was tough work but now I can really tell you what it was and you can see some results on my videos here. I got very conscious of using my body proper way while practicing and I got more flexibilities on the piano. Let me share what I can do with you.

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My musical bio:
Shintaro was born in Osaka, Japan and lives in the Hague Netherlands at the moment.
He was awarded the highest Master's Degree from Lucerne Conservatory in Switzerland in 2014.
He spent his childhood and student years in his home country. Shintaro started to play the piano spontaneously when he was three years old but he had to wait on his first professional lessons by Claudio Soares and Kumiko Hattori until the age of sixteen. During several years they have formed his strong musical foundation. Then he finished his study with Chiharu Sakai in Kyoto, Japan. Shintaro completed his training as a soloist under Konstantin Lifshitz at the Lucerne Conservatory.
He won the 1st prize at "Orpheus-Suiss Chamber Music Competition 2013" with Mai Suzuki (Violin). They are invited in Adelboden Music Festival in September 2014.
Shintaro has won several other prizes, such as:
"AOYAMA Music Awards 2010" in Kyoto, Japan, the 1st prize at The SAKAI International Piano Competition 2008 in Japan, the 1st prize at The Audition of ABC Institute for Musical Advancement 2009 in Japan, then he had a soloist with The Century Orchestra Osaka, and it was broadcast on radio and television or Documentary drama. Also, Shintaro had been elected as one of the finalists at the Lyon International Piano Competition and he got the 2nd prize at Rotary Excellence Prize at Lugano both in 2015.
He has performed Mozart 13 and 24, Saint-Saens No. 5, Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue", Shostakovich No. 2, and Tchaikovsky piano concerto with Mestro Norichika Iimori, Masataka Kouno, and Toshihiko Matsunuma at Osaka and Tokyo.
In 2012, .Shintaro has given 2 recitals on the same day, in front of a 35oo people audience at Hyogo Performing Arts Center.
In 2014, the Ravel Lefthand concerto with James Gaffigan and Lucern symphony orchestra performed at KKL concert hall Lucern.
In 2015, Shintaro performed Mozart's concerto No.14 with Maestro Kaspar Zendler with Multen Festival Orchestra at Murten Music Festival.
He has been working as ensemble pianist in New European Ensemble, Opera2day, Rotterdam Phill, Noord Nederlands Orkest and so on.
Shintaro used to work as a teacher at the Royal conservatory in The Hague.

Education

Hochschule Luzern Musik: Master piano Soloist diploma -Summa cum laude
Kyoto City University of Arts: Masters in Piano -Summa cum laude
Kyoto City University of Arts: Bachelor

Experience / Qualifications

He won the 1st prize at the "Orpheus-Swiss Chamber Music Competition 2013" as Duo Amati (Duo Liam) together with mrs. Mai Suzuki (violin). They were invited to the Adelboden Music festival in September 2014. In the meantime, Shintaro has won several other prizes, such as: "AOYAMA Music Awards 2010" in Kyoto, Japan, the 1st prize at the SAKAI International Piano Competition 2008 in Japan, the 1st prize at the audition of the ABC Institute for Musical Advancement 2009 also in Japan. On that last occasion he performed as a soloist with the Century Orchestra of Osaka, which was broadcast on radio and TV. In 2015, Shintaro was chosen as one of the finalists of the Lyon International Piano Competition and in the same year received the 2nd prize at the Rotary Excellence Prize in Lugano. His repertoire includes the piano concerto by Mozart no.13 and 24, by Saint-Saens no 5, by Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue", by Shostakovich no.2 and the piano concert by Tchaikovsky under the direction of maestro Norichika Iimori, Masataka Kouno and Toshihiko Matsunuma in Osaka and Tokyo. In 2012, Shintaro gave 2 recitals on the same day for 3500 people in the Hyogo Performing Arts Center. In 2014 he played the piano concert for Maurice Ravel's left hand with James Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony orchestra in the KKL concert hall in Lucerne. In 2015, Shintaro performed Mozart's piano concert no. 14 under the direction of maestro Kaspar Zendler with the Murten Festival orchestra during the Murten Music Festival.

Age

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Student level

Intermediate

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Duration

60 minutes

90 minutes

120 minutes

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