2024.5.4 西澤安澄 ピアノリサイタル-絢爛たる音　スペイン黄金時代へのいざない-

2024.5.4 Yasuzumi Nishizawa Piano Recital - Gorgeous Sounds: An Invitation to the Spanish Golden Age -

2024.12.27

Saturday, May 4, 2024
Doors open: 13:30 / Performance starts: 14:00 (recital scheduled to end at 16:00)
A cocktail party will be held after the recital.
Please enjoy this as well. (※Free invitation for those who purchase recital tickets)
Please note that alcohol will be served at the cocktail party. Please be aware of this if you are coming by car.

program
  • Antonio Soler (1728-1783): Sonata in G minor
  • Manuel Blasco de Nebra (1750-1784): Sonata in F sharp minor
  • Martínez Sánchez Arru (1823-1858): Pilgrim, etc.
Artist
  • Piano: Azumi Nishizawa

Artist Profile

Azumi Nishizawa, Piano
After graduating from the music department of Toho Gakuen Girls' High School, she studied under Jean-Marie Côté at the Conservatoire National de Paris, and then studied under Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire de Genève. After graduating from the Conservatoire's performer course with a unanimous first prize in 2002, she moved to Madrid, Spain to study the music of Falla, and began to perform actively around the world.
Besides concert tours in Japan, he is regularly invited to music festivals and concert series around the world: Geneva Arts Society Regular Concert (Switzerland), Paris Chopin Festival organized by the French Chopin Society, Kyoto Thousand and One Nights Festival, Vicenza Spring Festival (Italy), Los Clásicos de Verano en Madrid (Spain), Torresilda Music Festival (Spain), Encuentros Falla Music Festival (Granada, Spain), Úbeda International Music and Dance Festival (Spain), Jaén Music Festival, etc. In 2008, he dedicated a classical music concert to Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto for the first time since its opening, performed a "Complete Falla Recital" to inaugurate the renovated Manuel de Falla Memorial Hall in Granada, Spain, performed a "Homage to Lorca" Spanish tour, a dialogue between Lorca's poems and piano, read by Spanish actor Juan Echanove, and performed "Memories of the Alhambra" with Japanese actor Takaaki Enoki. Their concert in Rome in June 2010 was recorded and broadcast repeatedly on RAI (Italian national TV) and CANAL 10. In recognition of their active activities around the world, they received the 2010 Internet Music Festival International Goodwill Award.

As a chamber musician, he has toured Japan with the Suisse Romande Woodwind Quintet, which is made up of top players from the Suisse Romande Orchestra, performed as a duo with the Assai String Quartet and trumpeter G. Almeida, and as a Yamaha artist, he went on a concert tour of major European cities (Paris, London, Madrid, Milan, Berlin, Cologne, etc.) with saxophonist Nobuya Sugawa in 2009. He is also interested in performing Renaissance and Baroque music using period instruments, and has collaborated on the concert project of the Group Extravaganza with Baroque flutist Mariano Martin using the harpsichord.

The CDs he has released so far include "Complete Falla Piano Works" (verso, 2010), released in Spain (Record Geijutsu Semi-Special Selection), "Falla: Complete Piano Arrangements" (Record Geijutsu Special Selection) in 2012, "Albéniz: Complete Iberian Suites" (Record Geijutsu Special Selection) in 2014, "Homage to Debussy" (Record Geijutsu Semi-Special Selection) in 2019, and "Bellissimo," a compilation album of 13 Italian composers (Record Geijutsu Special Selection) in 2021.
In 2003, he appeared and performed in the film "Fukumimi" (starring Kudo Kankuro and Tanaka Kunie). In 2004, he became a part-time professor at Shanghai Normal University. Since 2006, he has been performing in concerts and master classes in various locations as an exclusive Yamaha Spain-Portugal artist. In 2022, he founded the Japan Falla Friendship Association with the aim of researching and popularizing European Latin music, especially Falla, and became its chairman. He is a Concert Imagine artist.
Official site: www.azuminishizawa.com

Event Outline

Date and time
Doors open: 13:30/Start: 14:00
venue Salon Le Damier at Karuizawa Ando Museum of Art
Ticket prices
  • Flat rate of 5,000 yen*

*For guests attending the recital who would like to also visit the museum
On the day of the event, please tell us the name of the ticket purchaser at the reception desk.
Museum tickets (on the day) will be sold at a 10% discount.

Discount price: 2,070 yen (tax included)
The last entry to the museum is at 4.30pm. We recommend you visit the museum before the concert starts.

  • [How to apply for tickets]
  • ・Pre-order on the event page (electronic ticket)
    Tickets can be purchased through the ticket purchasing site on the museum's website ( https://ticket.musee-ando.com/ ).
  • ・Make a reservation by phone (0267-42-1230 *Excluding closed days) and purchase tickets at the counter on the day (same-day tickets)
  • ・Make a reservation by email ( info@musee-ando.com ) and purchase tickets at the counter on the day (same-day tickets)
Notes
  • [Request to visitors]
  • ・If you have a fever or cold symptoms, please refrain from visiting.
  • - Please refrain from any behavior that may disrupt the performance or make loud noises that may disturb other customers.
  • *All seats are unreserved.
  • *Please note that tickets cannot be cancelled.