Faculty Profile

Natsuki Fukasawa
Piano

Steinway Artist Natsuki Fukasawa’s music career has taken her throughout U.S. cities as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Japan, and China, performing at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall. Fukasawa has won many accolades and international prizes, including rave reviews in Strad and Fanfare magazines and the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards.  

Fukasawa’s performance highlights include a tour of Italy performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F, as well as performances of Beethoven’s Third and Fourth Piano Concerti, the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, Chopin’s  Second Piano Concerto, Dohnanyi’s Variations on a Nursery Song, Mozart’s A-Major Piano Concerto, K. 488, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, and Ravel’s Concerto in G with orchestras in California. She is the pianist for the soundtrack of the recently released film We Had to Go – Remembering Internment, and three compact discs, including a live solo CD, Year in Prague, one with violinist Igor Veligan titled Voices from Eastern Europe, and another with bassoonist Scott Pool titled Vocalise. Most recently she was featured in the documentary film by La Casa Films & Arts titled 36 Views of Mount Fuji.

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