Nobuyuki Tsujii Нобуюки Цудзи 辻井伸行 at the Mariinsky Theater, Russia 2012

In July, 2012, Japanese pianist-composer Nobuyuki Tsujii was invited by Maestro Valery Gergiev to perform at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.

And on July 8, Nobuyuki gave a rousing performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Maestro Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, followed by a solo recital in the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall on July 10. Both performances were extremely well received by the Russian audiences.

The footage in this video is extracted from a TV special "Nobuyuki Tsujii x Tchaikovsky" aired on Fuji-TV in Japan on October 6, 2012.

In the summer of 2012, Nobuyuki Tsujii contributed to a one-million rubles donation from the proceeds of an acclaimed concert, in which he performed on July 8 with conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, to the victims of a flood in Kuban that occurred the night before.