Fujita with a programme of music by Haydn, Takemitsu, Ravel, Rachmaninov and Beethoven.
Megumi was born in New Zealand and started to study piano at the age of five in Japan. At 10 she moved to Atlanta in the USA to study with John Chagy.
She appe
ared on NBC TV the following year, and was soloist several times for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 12 years old.
She joined the Yehudi Menuhin School in 1979 to study with Simon Nicholls and Louis Kentner. At 19, she was selected as a post-graduate student at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv University and studied with Irina Zaritskaya, winning First Prize in the Piano Competition at the Academy the same year.
She continued her post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya, winning the Hopkinson Gold Medal in 1986.
Megumi has since won numerous prizes and has performed numerous concertos and recitals throughout the world at many prestigious venues as well as making several radio broadcasts including BBC Radio 3, Japan NHK FM Radio, Canadian Radio, Moroccan National Radio, and the Romanian National TV and Radio.
Recently, she has performed the Beethoven Piano Concertos No.4 and No.5, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1, a tour of the Beethoven Triple Concerto in the Loire area, France with the Orchestre National de Pays de la Loire, conducted by Issac Karabchevsky, and has recorded the chamber music works by Takemitsu for ASV Records, which was highly acclaimed by critics worldwide, to coincide with the Fujita Trio's Wigmore Hall recital.
Admission tomorrrow is £8 (members £7, full-time students £4). Non-members welcome. Enquiries for more information and full
directions to the concert hall email info@northfyldemusiccircle.org.uk or go to www.northfyldemusiccircle.org.uk
The recital starts in the main hall at 7.30pm.
