Akira Eguchi is a Japanese pianist. He was trained as a composer at
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...
and earned his master's degree in piano performance at the
Juilliard School
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. He was the recipient of numerous honors during his time at
Juilliard
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and was awarded a prize for excellence in accompanying at the
Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition.
Akira Eguchi has collaborated with such musicians as
Gil Shaham,
Anne Akiko Meyers,
Catherine Manoukian,
Kim Chee Yun, and
Kyoko Takezawa and has recorded on the
Deutsche Grammophon
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,
Philips
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,
Victor, and
BMG labels, as well as on a number of smaller labels.
He continues to be active as an arranger and composer.
External links
* http://www.akiraeguchi.com/
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Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Japanese classical pianists
21st-century Japanese male musicians
Japanese male classical pianists
Living people