Sundays are for Beauty - Rachmaninoff

Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has been blind from birth, but that did not stop him from competing in, and winning, the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The Van Cliburn competition has been held every four years since 1962 in Ft. Worth, Texas. It was created by Fort Worth area teachers in honor of Van Cliburn, who had won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition four years prior with Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. In the above two videos, Nobuyuki is performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor.

Nobuyuki Tsujii was born in Tokyo, in 1988. He has won numerous honors and awards. In October, 2005, he received the Critics’ Award at the 15th International Frederik Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland. The 2009 Van Cliburn was only his second international competition. He is believed to be the first blind contestant in the history of the Van Cliburn.