release of a new DVD

I'm happy to announce you that my new DVD has released! 

It is a live performance at the Domaine Musical de Pétignac on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, which took place on April 2, 2016. 

Here is the program :

" Récital Piano de Kotaro Fukuma "

- Pour les 30 ans du Domaine Musical de Pétignac -

Beethoven : Piano Sonata No.14 Op.27-2 "Moonlight" 

Chopin : Nocturne No.2 E-flat major Op.9-2

                Mazurka No.49 f-minor Op.68-4     

               Polonaise No.6 A-flat major Op.53 "Héroique"

Debussy : Images livre II            

Takemitsu : Litany - in Memory of Michel Vyner 

Smetana : The Moldau (transcription by Fukuma)

               ～ encores ～

Weissenberg : En Avril, à Paris

Ginastera : Danzas Argentinas No.3 

                       "Danza del gaucho matrero"

Satie : Je te veux (transcription by Fukuma)

There are interviews of me and Gérard Fauvin (the owner of this Domaine) in French with English subtitle.

Price : 20 EUR + shipment fees

If you wish to have this DVD, please write an Email to Order@kotarofukuma.com , indicating "DVD order" in the email title, your name as well as the name and the address of the receiver. My communication team will reply and explain you how the payment should be done.

Review of the album "Sing to Water" in the Gramophone

(the publication authorized by the editor)

 

 

"The Japanese pianist Kotaro Fukuma, now in his early thirties, begins this impressive album with his own arrangement of Smetana’s Vltava...Part of the pleasure of hearing this orchestral tone poem transferred to the keyboard with such aplomb is that one entirely forgets that this is not an original piano piece."

 

"Fukuma’s boldly projected account is despatched with a mischievous twinkle and can take its place alongside Bolet, Hamelin and (the ultimate accolade) Josef Lhévinne, whose final octave bombardment on his (abridged) 1928 classic has been the envy of every pianist since."

 

You can read the entire article in the link below:

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/sing-to-water

Article dans "Pianiste"

Voici l'article complet de Stéphane Friederich sur Kotaro Fukuma - n°100 de la revue Pianiste, paru en septembre-octobre 2016. (la publication autorisée par l'éditeur)

Le teaser du "Rappel des Oiseaux"

Le teaser du "Rappel des Oiseaux" avec Mathieu Ganio et Kotaro Fukuma , nouvelle création d' Orianne Moretti et Bruno Bouche le 16 mai 2016 au Café de la Danse est en ligne!

"Le Rappel des Oiseaux"
D'après "Le Journal d'un fou" de Gogol
Adaptation et mise en scène : Orianne Moretti
Chorégraphie : Bruno Bouché
Lumières : Michel Cabrera-Martin
Avksenty Ivanovitch Proprichtichine : Mathieu Ganio
Piano : Kotaro Fukuma
Une coproduction Correspondances Compagnie - Les Pianissimes
Réalisation vidéo : Avril Films.

Fantasy on Ice 2016

Kotaro Fukuma was invited to perform and collaborate with top figure skaters in the Fantasy on Ice in Makuhari, Sapporo, Kobe and Nagano last May - June.

Here are some videos of the performances:

Ravel : La Valse
with Stéphane Lambiel

Beethoven : Moonlight Sonata (1st & 3rd movements)
with Johnny Weir

Liszt : Liebestraum No.3
with Nobunari Oda

Chopin : Ballade No.4 Op.52

with Miki Ando

Caccini : Ave Maria
with Akiko Suzuki


You can see some photos of "off ice" here.