Haruo Uesugi, born in Japan in 1967, started to play the piano at the
age of five, and began his concert activity at the age of eleven
including playing concertos with orchestra. His musical accomplishments
even in his early years are brilliant and distinguished. After he
received first prizes in several domestic piano competitions, he went,
in 1981 at the age of 14, on a successful concert tour in USA. Further,
he won a medal at Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona in
1986.
He started his career as a concert pianist again after he entered the medical school. He had experience in solo concerts at many major concert halls including Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Osaka Symphony Hall in Japan. He also has played with many major orchstras in Japan.
Further, he played in hospital concerts for patients as well and the NHK, Japanese national broadcasting company, broadcast a documentary program about one of such concerts.
Some of his works so far have been published in four CDs from EMI Japan, including:
- I. Stravinski
- Three Movements from Petrushka
- M. Mussorgsky
- Pictures at an Exhibition
- F. Chopin
- Piano Sonata No.358
Ballade No.1 Op23
Polonaise No.5 Op44
- J.S.Bach
- Partita No.2
- L.van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 21 (Waldstein) Op53
- J. Brahms
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op24
- C. Debussy
- Image book1
- M. Ravel
- Jeux d’eau
Gaspard de la Nuit
- O. Messian
- “Regards de l’Esprit de joie”
“Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jesus”
from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus
After a 12 years’pause due to his medical career,he restarted
his music activity in 2003. He had played with famous artists, such as
Akiko Suwanai a winner at Tchaikovsky International Competition in
Moscow in 1990, Michie Nakamaru, Yoshiko Kawamoto, Joerg Demus and
Adalbert Skocic. He also played in Croatia with W. Kossjanenko (
Professor in the Concervatoire in Split, Croatia) in 2009. He had
studied piano with Tadashi Kitagawa, Kazuoki Fujii, Joseph Dichler,
Joerg Demus and Pavel Gililov, and vocal accompaniment with Katarina
Mikami and Martin Katz. Further, he devoted himself to studying cembalo with Yoshio Watanabe.
As a medical doctor, Haruo Uesugi studied at Hokkaido University School of Medicine and worked as a neurologist for several years. Then he studied at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo and Uppsala University Hospital (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology) in Sweden.
. At the same time, he is now a certificated physician by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and an authorized neurologist by Societas Neurologica Japonica.