Wataru Hisasue - The Recital (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Born in 1994 in Kyoto (Japan). He started playing the piano at the age of 5. Wataru Hisasue received his first prize at the age of 12 at the 8th International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia. in 2015, the "Erste Grand Prix" and the "Musideco" Prize followed at the 2nd Concours International de Piano - Ville de Gagny, at the 7th Concours International de Piano - Ville de Gagny. He won both the first prize and the Audience Prize at the Concours International de Piano de Lyon and in 2016, as part of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition, he won the first prize in the subject of piano and the “German Pianist Prize” - awarded by the International Piano Forum Frankfurt. in 2017 he received the third prize at the 66th ARD Music Competition as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of Pascal Dusapin's commissioned work.

Numerous solo performances took place, e.g. in Tokyo, Kyoto, Berlin and Paris. Wataru Hisasue performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin at the “Young Euro Classic Festival 2016“, in Mülheim with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and at the ”AUDI Musik Festival 2016" he performed with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra in Ingolstadt. He accepted an invitation to the festival ”Prèmiere Rencontre autour du piano 2016" in Guadeloupe, where he gave a master class in addition to piano solo recitals. At the music festival “42nd Franconian Music Days 2017” in Alzenau he performed with the renowned cellist Tanja Tetzlaff.

In 2013 he began his bachelor studies in piano at the University of Music Freiburg with Prof. Gilead Mishory. in 2015/2016 he studied as an Erasmus student at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where he received piano lessons from Prof. Emmanuel Strosser, in the subject improvisation chorégraphique with Prof. Franck Prévost and Deborah Shannon-Diouf. Since October 2017, he has been studying for a Master's degree at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Pascal Devoyon and Prof. Klaus Hellwig. He was supported as a scholarship holder of the Heiwado Foundation in Japan, the Freunde-Junger-Musiker Berlin e.V., the Rohm-Musik-Stiftung in Japan and the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg e.V. (Carl-Seemann-Preis 2015). In cooperation with the Italian label “Musideco”, his first recording was produced in 2015, which can be heard on music download / streaming websites such as iTunes, Amazon and Googleplay.

TRACKLIST

01. Wataru Hisasue - I. Con moto agitato
02. Wataru Hisasue - II. Allegro con moto
03. Wataru Hisasue - III. Presto
04. Wataru Hisasue - Keyboard Sonata in A-Flat Major, Kk. 127
05. Wataru Hisasue - Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 169
06. Wataru Hisasue - Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Kk. 481
07. Wataru Hisasue - No. 5, Regard du Fils sur le Fils
08. Wataru Hisasue - No. 8, Regard des hauteurs
09. Wataru Hisasue - No. 1, Ondine
10. Wataru Hisasue - No. 2, Le gibet
11. Wataru Hisasue - No. 3, Scarbo
12. Wataru Hisasue - No. 1 in A-Flat Major, MWV U 143
13. Wataru Hisasue - No. 6 in A Major, MWV U 161 "Frühlingslied"



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