Duo Recital] Wolfgang David & Tsuyoyuki Ladai

◆Tsuyuki ◆Tairai (Piano) Profile
Born in 1977. He started playing the piano at the age of 4.5 years old and entered the preparatory course of the Vienna State University of Music at the same time he graduated from elementary school. In 1994, he won the first prize at the International Music Competition for the Blind and Low Vision (Czech Republic) and the International Piano Competition for Young People in Ettlingen (Germany), the second prize at the Stravinsky Youth International Competition (USA) in 1995, the Muramatsu Prize in 1997, and the second prize at the Ron-Thibault International Competition in 1998. Second prize at the 1998 Ron-Thibault International Piano Competition. He was awarded the Chevillon-Bonneau Foundation Prize, the Tokyo Metropolitan Cultural Honor Medal, the Idemitsu Music Award, and the Braille Mainichi Cultural Award in 1999, and the Mayor's Prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2000. He has performed with orchestras such as the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Balkan Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Century Orchestra of Japan, Sendai Philharmonic, Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, and many other conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Fournet, Bertini, Sudern, Albrecht, Kenichiro Kobayashi, and Tetsuro Saka. He has appeared on TV programs such as TV Asahi's "Tetsuko's Room," NHK's "Geijutsu Gekijo," "NHK Symphony Hour," and BS Teletech's "Ongaku Kousaten (Music Crossing).

◆Wolfgang David (violin) Profile
Born in 1971 near Vienna, he entered the preparatory course at the Vienna State Conservatory of Music at the age of 8. He studied with R. Küchl, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, I. Ozim at the Cologne College of Music, and I. Neiman at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of England, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra of Austria, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra of South Africa, and the Bern Symphony Orchestra of Switzerland. He has performed in New York at the United Nations Hall in the presence of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and in Bangkok in the presence of the Queen of Thailand. The Washington Post praised the music as "descending to the highest degree," and Strad magazine said, "The richness of emotion is the best one could hope for. She has released a live CD of duo recitals with Tsuyoyuki Ladai, among others.