Lunchtime Recital - Asagi Nakata (piano)

Friday August 16, 2019 at 13:00

Regent Hall (The Salvation Army), London

Free admission – no ticket required

Asagi Nakata (piano) 
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, from 12 Lieder S 558 - Franz Schubert, transcribed by Franz Liszt
Beethovens geistliche Lieder von Gellert S 467 - transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt
No 4: Vom Tode
No 5: Die Liebe des Nachsten
Étude No 8 in C minor, 'Wilde Jagd', from 12 Études d'exécution transcendante S 139 - Franz Liszt
Sonata for Piano in B minor S 178 - Franz Liszt
Presented by the Royal Academy of Music

Asagi Nakata was born in 1995 and is in her third year at the Royal Academy, studying with Professor Christopher Elton. She previously studied with a scholarship at the Junior Department of the Royal College with Professor Ian Jones.

She has won several competitions including the European piano teachers association Belgian International, Franz Liszt Weimar (2009), the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Junior (2010) and was runner up in the Windsor International Piano Competition in 2015. Other successes include First Prize in the Marlow International Concerto Competition (2007), Third Prize in the James Mottram International Competition (2008), and Fourth Prize in the Ettlingen International Competition (2010).