Michio Nishihara Toro

Michio Nishihara Toro was born in Concepcion, Chile in 1972, and received his music education in Santiago, in Poland (Bydgoszcz Music Academy) and at the Moscow Conservatory.
Nishihara Toro has performed throughout South America and Europe, at such esteemed venues as Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Royal Festival Hall and St. Martin in the Fields in London, Rachmaninov Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, Polish Radio Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall in Warsaw, and Meistersaal in Berlin. He has released 3 CDs with part of his repertoire , that ranges from the Classical period to 20th century piano works, though perhaps his specialty lies within the Romantic literature.

Reviews

"The Chilean pianist Michio Nishihara Toro is a mature and fascinating artist... Along with possessing a technique of real magnitude, he proved to have an original personality. His rendition of Chopin's music fascinated the audience with its unusual aesthetic, authenticity, and pianistic mastery." Ruch Muzyczny (Warsaw)

"In Beethoven's 'Appassionata' Sonata, Nishihara Toro displayed a clear sense of the work's dramatic form and sweeping tonal structure capturing the music's rich romantic expression and intensity. Importantly, the pianist never interjected unwarranted gestures or hurried the phrasing and rhythm, wisely allowing the music to gradually unfold thereby permitting the contrasting sections to develop and build to climaxes. Liszt provided a perfect vehicle for the pianist's considerable technique and explosive chords, but it was in Chopin that Nishihara Toro communicated his deepest affection for the romantic period, sculpturing each phrase with their interiors echoes and variations along with well defined dynamics, while at the same time allowing the music to move forward with an uncanny sense of rhythmic freedom." Musical Opinion (London)