Haruo Uesugi, born in Japan in 1967, started to play the piano at the age of five, and began his concert activity at the age of eleven including playing concertos with orchestra. His musical accomplishments even in his early years are brilliant and distinguished.　After he received first prizes in several domestic piano competitions, he went, in 1981 at the age of 14, on a successful concert tour in USA. Further, he won a medal at Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona in 1986.

He started his career as a concert pianist again after he entered the medical school. He had experience in solo concerts at many major concert halls including Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Osaka Symphony Hall in Japan. He also has played with many major orchstras in Japan. Further, he played in hospital concerts for patients as well and the NHK, Japanese national broadcasting company, broadcast a documentary program about one of such concerts.

Some of his works so far have been published in four CDs from EMI Japan, including:

I. Stravinski

Three Movements from Petrushka

M. Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

F. Chopin

Piano Sonata No.358
Ballade No.1 Op23
Polonaise No.5 Op44

J.S.Bach

Partita No.2

L.van Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 21 (Waldstein) Op53

J. Brahms

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op24

C. Debussy

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M. Ravel

Jeux d’eau
Gaspard de la Nuit

O. Messian

“Regards de l’Esprit de joie”
“Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jesus”
from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus

After a 12 years’pause due to his medical career,he restarted his music activity in 2003. He had played with　famous artists, such as Akiko Suwanai a winner at Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1990, Michie Nakamaru, Yoshiko Kawamoto, Joerg Demus and Adalbert Skocic. He also played in Croatia with W. Kossjanenko ( Professor in the Concervatoire in Split, Croatia) in 2009. He had studied piano with Tadashi Kitagawa, Kazuoki Fujii, Joseph Dichler, Joerg Demus and Pavel Gililov, and vocal accompaniment with Katarina Mikami and Martin Katz. Further, he devoted himself to studying cembalo with Yoshio Watanabe.

As a medical doctor, Haruo Uesugi studied at Hokkaido University School of Medicine and worked as a neurologist for several years. Then he studied at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo and Uppsala University Hospital (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology) in Sweden. . At the same time, he is now a certificated physician by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and an authorized neurologist by Societas Neurologica Japonica.