Right: Hiroko Nagahata, Left: Reiko Yamada Concert at Nicols Concert Hall, Evanston, 2016
CONCERTS
Nagahata has performed in many international venues such as Carnegie Hall and Salle Cortot in Paris, in university recital halls, and at a number of music festivals. She also plays for community audiences with collaborating musicians who have national and international reputations. Nagahata has performed with: Rene Clausen (Grammy award winning conductor) and Choirs of America, New York Concerti Sinfonietta, Peter Miyamoto (University of Missouri), Juliet Petrus (International Soprano), Jonas Benson (Principal Violist at Sarasota Opera), Whitney Morrison (Lyric Opera of Chicago), to name a few. In recent years, Nagahata has performed a number of works by Japanese composers including Akira Ifukube, Yoshinao Nakada, as well as transcriptions of traditional Japanese music.
IRVING ARTISTS
Nagahata and cellist Alexa Muhly have formed a chamber music group named Irving Artists. Currently, they are undertaking a recording project of J.S. Bach’s three Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba and Harpsichord (with cello and piano). No. 1 in G major is included on their first album, Irving, released in October, 2019. They played album release concerts in PianoForte Studios, University of Chicago, and Gallery 345 in Toronto in 2019.
To learn more about Irving Artists, visit https://www.irvingartists.com
LECTURE RECITALS
One of Nagahata’s principal performance interests is Russian music and the piano playing style developed in Russia in the late 19th century to early 20th century. She has studied with Efrem Briskin, a phenomenal Russian pianist in NYC, and many other masters including Pavel Nersessian, Nikita Juzhanin, Dina Joffe, and Tatiana Zagorovskaya.
She has written on Prokofiev and his music within the context of early twentieth century St. Petersburg. As her doctoral lecture recital, she presented a piano cycle, Fairy Tales by Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) . Her DMA document "Metner's Fairy Tales: Texture and Subtlety" focuses on the textural subtlety of Medtner’s composition in relation to performance practice. To read Nagahata's writing on Medtner's music, visit https://medtner.org.uk