Sat 8/19 @ 7PM
Japanese pianist Mao Fujita’s music career has probably been called “meteoric” hundreds of times, including in the Cleveland Orchestra’s description of his upcoming performance at Blossom Music Center this weekend.
He began playing at age 3 and attended the Tokyo College of Music High School and the Tokyo College of Music. So far, super-promising but not all that exceptional. But he won his first major competition prize when he was just 11 (OK, it was a junior prize) and snagged the silver medal at the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 at the ripe old age of 20.
The audience at Blossom will get a taste of his winning Tchaikovsky ways when he makes his Cleveland debut performing the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cleveland Orchestra. American conductor Ryan Bancroft, himself a relative youngster at 34, will conduct the program, which also features contemporary American composer Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, written in the 1930s.
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