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Hiroaki Ooi −piano ,harpsichord , organ
“[OOI] sort glorieux d'un double combat, contre l'orchestre et cotre une ecriture pianistique a la limite du jouable.”(Pierre RIGAUDIERE/ DIAPASON)
“...the pianistic acrobatics of Hiroaki Ooi, who makes light of theextreme demands of the work, ...”(Martin COSTON/ BBC Music Magazine)
“Impresa davvero eroica”(Paolo Petazzi/ Il Gazzettino)
Hiroaki OOI was born and brought up in Kyoto (Japan). Before becoming a full-time pianist he studied electronics in Kyoto University. In 1996 he moved to Berne (Switzerland) to study the piano, harpsichord and organ thanks to scholarships granted by both the Swiss and the Japanese Government, which was for the first time to enter in a music institute.He has attended master classes by Andras Schiff, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Lazar Berman, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (organ) and Milos Spanyi(clavichord). He completed his soloist diploma for piano under the aegis of Prof. Bruno Canino, and concert diploma for harpsichord with Prof.Dirk Borner at Berne College of the Arts.
OOI has appeared as a soloist on several festivals, such as the Hanover Biennale, the Avignon Festival, LaBiennale di Venezia, the NovemberMusic Festival (Belgium/Netherlands), the Pan Music Festival (Korea)among others. He was also invited in many a concert with the Asko Ensemble Amsterdam, the Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris -at Cite de lamusique-, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin - at Philharmonie and Konzerthaus -, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo with Charles Dutoit, theBerner Symphonie Orchester, the New Japan Philharmonic Tokyo, the TokyoMetropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo City Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, etc.
OOI premiered in Japan various important modern works, e.g.Stockhausen's "Synthi-Fou oder Klavierstuck XV" and "Klavierstuck XVI",Xenakis' "Erikhthon" for piano and orchestra, Ligeti's 19 etudes (No.1-18 & 14A), Nancarrow's Canons, Unsuk Chin's Klavierkonzert & Klavieretuden,and so on.
In 1993 he won the first prize at the Competition for Modern Music in Tokyo organized by ISCM Japan. Numerous awards have honored his activities, such as the "ARION Prize" (1994) sponsored to the most notable young artists in the year by the Arion-Edo Foundation, the "AOYAMA Music Award" (1995) offered by the Aoyama Foundation for is Japanese premiere of Ligeti's 14 Klavieretuden, the "MURAMATSU Award"(1996) granted by the Mitsui Trust Bank for his recitals of the complete works for piano(s) by Pierre Boulez in Tokyo and Kyoto as well as the prestigious "IDEMITSU Award" (2001) from Idemitsu petrol company.
In 1996 he won at Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition Rotterdam, and again in 2000 at the Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition, Paris.
In May 2002 Ooi commemorated Xenakis' 80th anniversary at "La Biennale di Venezia" with 5 piano (Six chansons, Herma, Evryali, Mists, ar.) and 2 harpsichord pieces (Khoai, Naama), a programme that he repeated and extended by the inclusion of Eonta in Tokyo and Kyoto. In autumn
2002 he released his first CD with Xenakis’piano concerto Synaphai" collaborated with Arturo Tamayo / Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg [TIMPANI M1C-1068 / Paris], which is to be
followed the 2nd recording with Xenakis' another concerto "Erikhthon" in autumn 2004.
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