
Pianist and composer Tempei NAKAMURA, a native of Kobe, Japan, began studying the piano at the age of 5. In high school, his home was destroyed by the Great Hanshin Earthquake. He dropped out of high school to work in the demolition industry. Although he no longer played the piano in high school, he was accepted into a music school and went on to study at the Osaka University of the Arts, where he graduated at the top of the piano course.