Japanese composer and pianist Koki Nakano has been part of the second video in the MONUMENTAL series carried out by C. Bechstein, a piano manufacturing company known for its concert pianos and upright pianos.

This series seeks to discover the most emblematic cultural sites in the world in an intimate way, only with an artist, a piano, and a monument. In this video, said monument is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and inaugurated in 1997.
Pianist Koki Nakano has been chosen to provide music to the new stage of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao with its titanium curves and its light-filled atrium interacting with Tess Voelker's dance.

The video presents the first part with Koki Nakano in front of the piano located in the atrium of the museum who is later joined by the dancer Tess Voelker who interacts with both the piano and the building during her dance.

Koki Nakano. Our Saturday music video. (Official Music Video). METALOCUS MUSIC PROJECT.

Credits.-
Producer.- Morgan Franke.
Dancer.- Tess Voelker.
Sound.- Miche Moreno.
Video.- Mateusz Miszczynski, Łukasz Łatanik.
Piano technician.- Torben Garlin.
With special thanks to.- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Foundation, Patricia González, Iratxe Olano, Yoko Yamada, Alice Combre, Pianomobil.
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Koki Nakano was born in 1988 in Fukuoka,Japan and has been playing piano since he was three years old. After graduating Music High School at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, he enrolled at the composition department of Tokyo University of the Arts.He has written works for various ensembles including a vast amount of solo piano compositions and numerous pieces for cello and piano, and as a band leader for his band ‘Gas Law’ he has been composing and performing throughout Japan.

Next to this he has also been involved in production work for Tokyo FM.Furthermore he has performed recitals at the ‘Maison de la culture du Japon’ and the 'Louvre' and the 'Théâtre du Châtelet' in Paris, at the 'Stefánia Palace' in Budapest. In 2016, he released his first album Lift from french label Nø Førmat. At the present moment he is based in Paris.
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Published on: February 17, 2024
Cite: "Curves, light and dance. MONUMENTAL: Ep. 2 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Koki Nakano" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/curves-light-and-dance-monumental-ep-2-guggenheim-museum-bilbao-koki-nakano> ISSN 1139-6415
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