Virtuoso pianist
Last year, 21 year old Nobuyuki Tsujii won the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, tying with Haochen Zhang. The pieces he performed for the competition included Chopin’s Twelve Etudes, Liszt’s La Campanella, a couple of Beethoven’s Sonatas, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (below) and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
Nobuyuki Tsujii was born blind.