Nakahara Yusuke

I’m from Japan, where I lived in a very little known small town. I have been playing music since I was a child, and I particularly loved the piano, therefore I first stated to study here at the Academy as a pianist. It was later that I realized that this career was not ment to be how I live my life – yet I found a new possibility in the Academy: Musicology. The road however was not easy at all. I had to master the rather difficult language first and also a lot of studying on the theory of music had to be done to be admitted. To continue on the other had is also not easy. I have to learn a lot on this course and everything on Hungarian. Yet I’m confident in my decision as here is the best place, better than anywhere else in the world to learn about Hungarian folk music, about Kodály and Bartók.

 

  
The most important class, however, for me and for hundreds of other Hungarian musicians, was the chamber-music class. From about the age of fourteen, and until graduation from the Academy, all instrumentalists except the heavy-brass players and percussionists had to participate in this course. Presiding over it for many years was the composer Leó Weiner, who thus exercised an enormous influence on three generations of Hungarian musicians. (Sir Georg Solti)