Hideki Nagano

Hideki Nagano (born 1968) is a Japanese classical pianist. He has been a member of the Ensemble intercontemporain since 1995 and lives in France.

Biography Nagano was born in Nagoya. He studied at the University of Tokyo in particular with Henriette Puig-Roget.

He arrived Paris in 1988 without speaking much French, and prepared for the entrance exam to the Conservatoire de Paris. He studied piano with Jean-Claude Pennetier and vocal accompaniment with Anne Grappotte then with Jean Kœrner.

Recordings Hideki Nagano plays Boulez — Messiaen — Murail — Dutilleux, Fontec, 1997 Hideki Nagano plays Prokofiev — Messiaen — Murail, Nippon Columbia, 1998 George Antheil, La Femme 100 têtes — Sonatina — Jazz sonata , Pianovox, October 1998 Tōru Takemitsu: Chamber music, BIS Records, November 1998 Maurice Ravel, Piano works, Nippon Columbia, 2001 Bechara El-Khoury, Waves, Op. 60, on the New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed records, Naxos Records, September 2006 Jonathan Harvey: Bird concerto with pianosong, recorded at the Warsaw Autumn Festival on 19 September 2009, NMC Recordings, October 2011 Pierre Boulez, Une page d'éphéméride, in Complete Works, Deutsche Grammophon, 2013

With the Modulations Trio Bruno Mantovani, Da Roma, on the Art d'écho record, Sismal records, 2007

With the Ensemble intercontemporain Philippe Manoury, La Partition du ciel et de l'enfer, Adès, 1997 Pierre Boulez, Sur Incises, Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 Pierre Boulez, Pli selon pli, Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Bruno Mantovani, Éclair de Lune, Kairos, 2008 Pierre Jodlowski, Drones — Barbarismes, Kairos, 2011 Yann Robin, Art of metal II, Kairos, 2012