Masashi Nakamura
Pianist / Keyboard Player / Music Composer & Arranger
A graduate of Osaka College of Music, The Music
Department Composition Course
Masashi Nakamura was born
in 1960.
When he was 4 years old,
he started playing piano, and receiving music special education
for gifted children “
Junior Original Concert “ at YAMAHA MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Since he was an
elementary school student, he has started to compose music, and
he received the highest
award of “ Keihanshin Lyrics Writing & Music Composition
Competition “when he was a 2nd year junior high school
student. In the same year
When he was only 15 years
old, he composed and arranged the junior high school song
Of his Alma mater, and it
still continues to be sung.
After he entered Osaka College
of Music, he specialized in music composition.
While learning the theory
of classics & modern music in the college, he also
learned
and mastered the
composition and arrangement method of Jazz & popular
music
on his own. And also he
started to do studio works and to have gigs and sessions
still in college.
After graduation from the
college, he signed up for YAMAHA MUSIC FOUNDATION
as a special staff. And
then after that, he participated many music projects,
And wrote and published
many text books of music theory and manual.
Currently, the music
video for piano & music instructors “ Column of Masashi
Nakamura “has been delivering by the broadband service of YAMAHA MUSIC
FOUNDATION Official Website.
As a player, music
composer and arranger, he has taken part in album recordings and
concert tours of many
artists. He also has offered many music compositions to the mass
media,
which has been
broadcasted “ TV Asahi / Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ’s Uganda Report “ ,
“ MBS / Oedo wo Kakeru “ , “ Sun TV “ , “ Nara TV “ ,
“ FM Kobe “.
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