was a Japanese classical

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. At the time of his death he was President of the Tokyo College of Music.

Biography

Minoru Nojima was a child prodigy in Japan, won a major nationwide competition there as a teenager, studied with Lev Oborin in

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and then with Constance Keene and Abram Chasins in

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, and burst upon the international music scene as a second prize winner of the

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piano competition in 1969. Although known and highly respected amongst pianists as a "pianist's pianist," he was not well known to most music lovers, largely because he did not like to make recordings and made very few. In 2007, it was reported that Nojima's 1988 Reference Recordings recording "''Nojima Plays Liszt''" was one of the recordings plagiarized by Joyce Hatto. 2014 - Received Japan Art Academy Award.

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* 1945 births 2022 deaths 21st-century classical pianists Japanese classical pianists Japanese male classical pianists People from Yokosuka, Kanagawa People from Kanagawa Prefecture Toho Gakuen School of Music alumni Moscow Conservatory alumni Prize-winners of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Academic staff of Toho Gakuen School of Music Tokyo College of Music faculty Presidents of universities and colleges in Japan {{classical-pianist-stub