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NEWS

In the 2026–2027 season, I will perform the world premiere of Klaus Lang’s new piano concerto with the SWR Symphonieorchester under conductor Bas Wiegers, with performances at ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart and the Elbphilharmonie Visions festival in Hamburg. Further engagements include the MGNM Klavierfestival in Munich, the Mixtur Festival in Barcelona, and the Pulsar Festival in Copenhagen, along with masterclasses in Spain and Denmark. 

Die Pianistin Rei Nakamura findet internationale Beachtung als Interpretin zeitgenössischer Musik. Sie engagiert sich insbesondere für ein experimentelles und spartenübergreifendes Repertoire. 2007 startete sie das Projekt Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement für Klavier und Multimedia: In intensiver Zusammenarbeit mit Komponist*innen werden multimediale Werkkonzepte erprobt und weltweit aufgeführt.

Im Rahmen ihrer Konzerttätigkeit spielte sie u. a. als Solistin mit dem SWR Symphonieorchester, WDR-Sinfonieorchester und Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin sowie auf zahlreichen Festivals wie Eclat Festival, Festival Acht Brücken, Ultraschall Berlin, Warsaw Autumn (Polen), Sound of Stockholm (Schweden), Klang Festival (Dänemark) und Monday Evening Concerts (USA). 

Sie ist Pianistin im Ensemble Experimental des SWR-Experimentalstudios Freiburg und ist darüber hinaus immer wieder auch in anderen kammermusikalischen Formationen tätig. Mit dem Klangkünstler Peter Vogel hatte sie von 2003-2012 das Improvisationsduo für Live-Elektronik und präpariertes Klavier.

I am a pianist and performer —live on stage, with an audience—is at the heart of what I do and who I am. Lately, I have been working intensively as soloist with orchestras such as Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, RAI National Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra and RSO Berlin with conductors as Brad Lubman, Robert Treviño, Yaroslav Shemet, Arash Yasdani, Michael Wendeberg and Bas Wiegers. Those includes premieres of piano concertos by Malin Bång, Christian Winther Christensen and Simon Steen-Andersen. 

My on-going project since 2007, Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement, combines piano with multimedia, electronics, and video. Music is also a visual art: my visual perception influences the sounds I produce, just as what an audience hears is affected by what they see in performance. Through this project,,,

 

PROJECTS

Piano Concertos

Premiering piano concertos have become an important part of my artistic activities. I have premiered Piano Concertos by composers Malin Bång, Wojtek Blecharz, Christian Winther Christensen and Simon Steen-Andersen. Working with the SWR Symphonieorchester, WDR sinfonieorchester and RSO Berlin and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice with the conductors Brad Lubman, Yaroslav Shemet, Michael Wendeberg, Bas Wiegers and Arash Yasdani have been an incredible experience.

 

John Cage/Etude Australes

Due to the pandemic, the Festival Achtbrücken 2020 was held as an online concert. I transformed my solo concert into a collaboration with the Freiburg Planetarium and SWR Experimentalstudio for recording purposes. The live conference and post-concert discussion took place via a live online portal at Depot K in Freiburg, documented by the photograher Anja Thölking. A documentary comic and a report of this project was published in MusikTexte 166 under the title “Kommunikation in Quarantäne” (Communication in Quarantine).

The Five Senses

The Five Senses is the new program of the project "Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement" for piano,  electronics, movement and video since 2007. My intention is to create and seek for an entirely new type of performance, both visually and aurally examining the interrelation of movement and sound. I encourage collaborations between composers and artists in order to achieve a diversity of repertoire.

Lecture Performance

Sara Glojnaric/Latitudes

Simon Steen-Andersen/no Concerto (2024)

James Layton/having never known the piano

Jan Martin Smørdal - Solfeggio (2025)

Luc Ferrari/u.s.w...

Martin Tideman Kvalø/Tema

Torbjørn Haaland/Kinetic Transfer (2025)

Siri Eide/blending, melding

Sarah Nemtsov/Seven Thoughts

Kreutzer by Vinyl Terror and Horror

Fernando Manassero/Cortex

Michael Beil/Mach Sieben

Henrik Hellstenius/The Murmur of the World

Stefan Prins/Piano Hero#1

Bach ohne Grenze

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