“European Voyage”, I visit all 47 European countries for playing music.
It’s the video of the departure day & spent time in Amsterdam, where is the base of this Journey.
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Date : May 23rd~24th, 2019
Place : Tokyo(JP)→Amsterdam(NL)
Video & Edit : Tempei Nakamura & Ayaka Imafuku
Composer & Pianist : Tempei Nakamura / 中村天平
Translator : Noboru Yoshida (Airin No Botan)
【Diary】
I departed Japan at midnight on May 23, 2019.
Arrived in Amsterdam via Doha (Qatar) on the 24th.
I bought a Mitsubishi Outlander for a trip and drove a Dutch road.
It’s the first step of this journey.
I also bought a caravan in the Netherlands and got a visa.
And prepare for the next day to Ukraine.
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Street piano in Milan with policemen
Street Piano at Paris Gare de l’Est
Phoenix, Tempei Nakamura@Lille, France
Like a Bird
Glorious Fanfare
Broken piano at abandoned school
Street piano on NY Subway
【Flame】Concert in Ukraine / Tempei Nakamura
【About Tempei Nakamura】
Tempei Nakamura is a Japanese composer and pianist from Kobe. As a child, he experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake lost everything.
He dropped out of a high-school by quarrel to work as a construction worker for many years to support himself.
He was accepted into a vocational school for music where it became the turning point in his life to start his career in the music field to become a composer despite many years away from playing the piano. He studied many genres of music including classical, jazz, rock, and progressive rock at the Osaka University of Arts and graduated with honors in piano studies.
In 2006, he relocated and studied abroad in New York(USA) to pursue his career internationally.
In 2008, EMI Music Japan released Tempei’s debut album.
Tempei is called the “Maverick Pianist” because of his unique character and career.
He has played at many large concert halls including Suntory Hall, Phenix Hall, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan as well as appearing on various Japanese TV shows.
In 2010, Tempei made his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall, New York.
He performs annually and has held concerts all over Europe.
(Venues such as The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam(Netherlands), Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris(France), the Japanese-German Berlin Center(Germany) as well as in various other countries including Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg, Estonia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Belarus.)
Tempei also has a tour held at the World Heritage Site, ”Kumano Kodo” in the Kii Peninsula.
He launched a cloud-funding project for refurbishing damaged pianos that belonged to closed schools.
From 2012-2017, created a reconstruction project called, “Rising Sun” that delivers the pianos to areas damaged during the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Tempei is a well-known Japanese street pianist—playing the piano in small villages to the streets in Europe and subway stations in New York city(NYC), station piano performance, all over the world.
In 2018, Tempei went on a nation-wide tour as adventurer, driving himself to diverse beautiful locations across Japan.
Tempei began a new project called, “All Europe Tour”, aiming to visit and perform in every country in Europe and traveling only by caravan (camping trailer) and car “Odyssey” with the entire production crew starting in 2019 and ending in 2021.
In 2020, Tempei starts a new academic career as guest professor at the Osaka University of Arts.
His dream is to live in the countryside, make a music, and traveling with a camping car.
Tempei has released the following solo albums called “Tempeizm”, “Tsubasa”, “Phoenix”, “Vortex”, and “Visions”(Suite Claude Monet).
The representative songs of his works are “Ichigo-Ichie”, “Flame”, “Fantasy”, “Glorious Fanfare”, “Celestial Overture”, “Spiritual Road”, “Maiden Voyage”, “Like a Bird”.
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