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• Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• Artist Diploma , Indiana University, 1986

Background:

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Shigeo Neriki has been a soloist with the Chicago, National, Denver, and Pittsburgh symphonies, and the Minnesota and Boston Pops orchestras.

He has toured the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, and Japan with cellist Janos Starker. Professor Neriki won the Southwest Pianist Foundation Competition; was awarded first prize and received a special award for commissioned work at the Three Rivers Piano Competition in Pittsburgh; was named best accompanist at the Fifth International Tchaikovsky Competition; and is the recipient of the Suntory Award.

He has recorded for Columbia, Toshiba, EMI, Delos, BMG, Apollon, and Meister.