Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550 Mao Fujita

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt):
• 1Mozart: Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt)03:45
• Serenade from Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Arr. for Piano by Georges Bizet):
• 2Mozart: Serenade from Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Arr. for Piano by Georges Bizet)02:26
• Ave verum corpus, K.618 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt):
• 3Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K.618 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt)03:15
• Total Runtime09:26

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"Mao - and what next?" No, the answer is not Zedong, and the trail does not point to China either, but to Japan, where pianist Mao Fujita was born in 1998. When he took the stage in August 2022 to perform Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, he was still a blank slate for most in the audience. But 45 minutes later, people were no longer on the edge of their seats: Mao Fujita had made a brilliant debut and played a Rachmaninoff the likes of which had never been heard before. There was no strongman at work, who came up with volume and virile potency, but a poet who caressed the keys and put Rachmaninov's most famous concerto, which one thought one knew so well, into a completely new light. It suddenly sounded almost like Schumann. And Mao Fujita has even more to offer: In the autumn, he presented a complete recording of the Mozart piano sonatas, with subtle phrasing, wit and a zest for life.

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Mao Fujita
With an innate musical sensitivity and naturalness to his artistry, 24-year old pianist Mao Fujita has already impressed many leading musicians as one of those special talents which come along only rarely, equally at home in Mozart as the major romantic repertoire.

Born in Tokyo, Fujita was still studying at the Tokyo College of Music in 2017 when he took First Prize at the prestigious Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, along with the Audience Award, Prix Modern Times, and the Prix Coup de Coeur, which first brought him to the attention of the international music community. He was also the Silver Medalist at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where his special musical qualities received exceptional attention from a jury of leading musicians.

Fujita has been invited to appear in recital at major international festivals including the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Tsinandali and Riga-Jurmala festivals, among others, and he makes his highly-anticipated US recital debut at Carnegie Hall in January 2023. Recent and upcoming orchestral highlights include performances with the Gewandhausorchester, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Philharmonique de Radio France, Konzerthaus Berlin, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, RAI, Filarmonica della Scala, and Lucerne Festival orchestras, while his many conductor relationships include Vasily Petrenko, Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly, and Andris Nelsons.

In November 2021, Fujita signed an exclusive multi-album deal with Sony Classical International. The new partnership sees him explore many facets of repertoire across several releases, starting with an eagerly-anticipated studio recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas, which is due for release in October 2022, following an acclaimed series of performances of the complete sonatas at the Verbier Festival in 2021. Fujita has been invited to perform the same set of works, interspersed with sets of Variations, over five concerts for his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall at the end of the 22/23 season.

Starting piano lessons at the age of three, Fujita won his first international prize in 2010 at the World Classic in Taiwan, and became a laureate of numerous national and international competitions such as the Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition in Vienna (2013), Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians (2015), and the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition (2016).

Mao Fujita is moving to Berlin for further studies with Kirill Gerstein.

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