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I had a great time in the concert performing no Concerto by Simon Steen-Andersen on Sept 9 in MITO Festival, Turin. It was incredible to work with Robert Treviño and RAI National Symphony Orchestra. Getting to know and work with the actor Vinicio Marchioni was such a pleasure.

The opening concert of the festival Warsaw Autumn with Yaroslav Shemet and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra was also a life experience. I had the honor to play  Christian Winther Christensen's Piano Concerto in the Warsaw Philharmonics, where the Chopin Piano Competition is held.

This friday, Sept 27, at 19:30 I will be playing the Concerto for piano and wireless speakers by Wojtek Blecharz. It is a concerto with a new format, in which the orchestra ist replaced by the wireless speakers. I just wrote an article about this piece. It was published in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 2024/3 "Osmose - oder der Moment der Gegenwart". Available in German.

 

Die Pianistin Rei Nakamura findet internationale Beachtung als Interpretin zeitgenössischer Musik. Sie engagiert sich insbesondere für ein experimentelles und spartenübergreifendes Repertoire. 2007 startete sie das Projekt Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement für Klavier und Multimedia: In intensiver Zusammenarbeit mit Komponist*innen werden multimediale Werkkonzepte erprobt und weltweit aufgeführt.

Im Rahmen ihrer Konzerttätigkeit spielte sie u. a. als Solistin mit dem SWR Symphonieorchester, WDR-Sinfonieorchester und Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin sowie auf zahlreichen Festivals wie Eclat Festival, Festival Acht Brücken, Ultraschall Berlin, Warsaw Autumn (Polen), Sound of Stockholm (Schweden), Klang Festival (Dänemark) und Monday Evening Concerts (USA). 

Sie ist Pianistin im Ensemble Experimental des SWR-Experimentalstudios Freiburg und ist darüber hinaus immer wieder auch in anderen kammermusikalischen Formationen tätig. Mit dem Klangkünstler Peter Vogel hatte sie von 2003-2012 das Improvisationsduo für Live-Elektronik und präpariertes Klavier.

I am a pianist and performer —live on stage, with an audience—is at the heart of what I do and who I am. Lately, I have been working intensively as soloist with orchestras such as Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, RAI National Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra and RSO Berlin with conductors as Brad Lubman, Robert Treviño, Yaroslav Shemet, Michael Wendeberg and Bas Wiegers. Those includes premieres of piano concertos by Malin Bång, Christian Winther Christensen and Simon Steen-Andersen. 

My on-going project since 2007, Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement, combines piano with multimedia, electronics, and video. Music is also a visual art: my visual perception influences the sounds I produce, just as what an audience hears is affected by what they see in performance. Through this project,,,

 

PROJECTS

Piano Concerto

Premiering piano concertos have become an important part of my artistic activities. I have premiered Piano Concertos by composers Malin Bång, Wojtek Blecharz, Christian Winther Christensen and Simon Steen-Andersen. Working with the SWR Symphonieorchester, WDR sinfonieorchester and RSO Berlin and the conductors Brad Lubman, Michael Wendeberg and Bas Wiegers have been an incredible experience.

 

Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement

I work on this multimedia project for piano,  electronics, movement and video since 2007. My intention is to create and seek for an entirely new type of performance, both visually and aurally examining the interrelation of movement and sound. I encourage collaborations between composers and artists in order to achieve a diversity of repertoire.

Publication: Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement - Interpreting Multimedia Piano Compositions by Wolke Edition

Artistic Research

Bach ohne Grenze - Through an initiative of George Kentros, I have joined the artistic research project with Ida Lunden and Mattias Petersson at KMH (Stockholm University of Music) “Back to the Future” in 2021. We have been questioning ourselves about performance, discussing ideas on how we could perform classical music with non-musical methods to get a new perspective. Bach ohne Grenze is my solo contribution to this project. Film: Kentaro Taki

Ambience - prepared piano and live electronics

Gallery

09.09.24 20:00

Simon Steen-Andersen - no Concerto (2024) Italian premiere

Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Robert Treviño, conductor

MITO Festival Turin

20.09.24 19:30

Christian Winther Christensen - Piano Concerto (2018) Polish premiere

Nactional Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice

Yaroshlav Shemet, conductor

Warsaw Autumn

27.09.24 19:30

Wojtek Blecharz - Concerto for piano and wireless speakers (2023)

Warsaw Autumn

 

21.10.24 19:30

Lecture Performance - Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement

A talk about works composed for piano, electronics and video.

Powerpoint slide show and live performances of selected pieces.

HfM Detmold

 

07.11.24 19:00

Georg Friedrich Haas - Piano Concerto

Moravian philharmonics orchestra

Arash Yazdani, conductor

Music Olomouc - Festival of contemporary Music in Olomouc

19.11.24 18:00

Lecture Performance - Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement

A talk about works composed for piano, electronics and video.

Powerpoint slide show and live performances of selected pieces.

Norwegian Academy, Oslo

21.01.25 19:00

Lecture Performance - Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement

A talk about works composed for piano, electronics and video.

Powerpoint slide show and live performances of selected pieces.

Work in collaboration with Andreas E. Frank - Punch

Music Academy, Basel

03.02.25 19:30

Movement to Sound x Earquake

collaboration with the composition class Prof. Mark Barden, Earquake Merve Kazokoglu and Sascha Etezazi (HfM Detmold)

08.03.25 22:05

Portraitsendung

Atelier neuer Musik / Deutschlandfunk 

by Egbert Hiller

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