Hideki Nagano

Hideki Nagano (born 1968) is a Japanese classical pianist. He has been a member of the Ensemble intercontemporain since 1995 and lives in France.

Nagano was born in Nagoya. He studied at the University of Tokyo^[1] in particular with Henriette Puig-Roget.

He arrived Paris in 1988^[1] without speaking much French, and prepared for the entrance exam to the Conservatoire de Paris. He studied piano with Jean-Claude Pennetier and vocal accompaniment with Anne Grappotte then with Jean Kœrner.

• Hideki Nagano plays Boulez — Messiaen — Murail — Dutilleux, Fontec, 1997
• Hideki Nagano plays Prokofiev — Messiaen — Murail, Nippon Columbia, 1998
• George Antheil, La Femme 100 têtes — Sonatina — Jazz sonata , Pianovox, October 1998
• Tōru Takemitsu: Chamber music, BIS Records, November 1998
• Maurice Ravel, Piano works, Nippon Columbia, 2001
• Bechara El-Khoury, Waves, Op. 60, on the New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed records, Naxos Records, September 2006
• Jonathan Harvey: Bird concerto with pianosong, recorded at the Warsaw Autumn Festival on 19 September 2009, NMC Recordings, October 2011
• Pierre Boulez, Une page d'éphéméride, in Complete Works, Deutsche Grammophon, 2013

• Bruno Mantovani, Da Roma, on the Art d'écho record, Sismal records, 2007

• Philippe Manoury, La Partition du ciel et de l'enfer, Adès, 1997
• Pierre Boulez, Sur Incises, Deutsche Grammophon, 2000
• Pierre Boulez, Pli selon pli, Deutsche Grammophon, 2002
• Bruno Mantovani, Éclair de Lune, Kairos, 2008
• Pierre Jodlowski, Drones — Barbarismes, Kairos, 2011
• Yann Robin, Art of metal II, Kairos, 2012

• Nagano à propos du concerto pour piano de Ligeti on the site of the Ensemble intercontemporain
• review of his interpretation of the first piano sonata and the Une page d'éphéméride by Boulez on Seen and heard international (Salzburg, January 2009).
• review of his interpretation of the Harrison’s Clocks by Birtwistle on the site Seen and heard international (Aldeburgh Festival, June 2009).