School of Music

NARIAKI SUGIURA	SCHOOL OF MUSIC FACULTY
Staff Accompanist

 

International concert pianist Nariaki Sugiura frequently tours, as a recitalist, a chamber musician, and gives lessons and master classes throughout the U.S. as well as tours in Europe and Asia.  He has recently appeared on the concert stages at the Roundtop Music Festival in Texas, the Fox River Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin, and in South Korea and Japan.  Since 2002, he has been collaborating with a cellist Emilio Colón, and they have toured in the U.S., South Korea, Japan and Puerto Rico. He is an active performer and promoter of contemporary music, and has premiered many newly written pieces including Robin Macheel’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2005).

He is a featured solo and chamber music artist on several CD recordings including a solo album, which features Mr. Sugiura's performance of Barber's Piano Sonata, released by T.K. Music Productions.  In 2007, T.K. Music Productions released a new CD of his collaboration with cellist Joseph Kaizer.  In 2006, Klavier Music Productions Esencia was produced, a recording featuring Sugiura and Colón in an album of music for cello and piano from South America and the Caribbean. He also has been an editor of musical scores published by Master's Music Publications since 2002.

Born in Hakodate, Japan in 1975, Mr. Sugiura began piano study with his mother at age five, later studying at the Tokyo College of Music High School. In 1996, he entered the Indiana University.  Under the tutelage of Michel Block and Shigeo Neriki, he received a Bachelor and Master of Music in Piano Performance.  He will be completing his doctoral study at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2008.  He is a winner of numerous competitions including the both 1999 and 2000 Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competitions and the Annual Competition of Music from Spain and Latin America in 1999. Other awards include the third place the 47th Japan National Student Music Competition in 1993.

Mr. Sugiura has held the position of Adjunct Lecturer and Associate Instructor of Piano at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is currently a staff accompanist for DePauw University School of Music, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (the distinguished cellist and pedagogue Janos Starker’s studio) and Indiana University String Academy.

 

Email : nariakisugiura@depauw.edu
Office : Green Center for the Performing Arts 0116
Phone : (765) 658 - 4380