Since winning the Gold Medal at the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Jon Nakamatsu tours year-round working with today’s leading conductors and orchestras, and appears in recital and chamber collaborations at festivals and music centers worldwide. It will be his fifth performance here, on the Steinway piano that he chose for the Bankhead. Together with the renowned clarinetist Jon Manasse, Mr. Nakamatsu regularly tours as a member of the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo as well as with the Frautschi/Manasse/Nakamatsu Trio. Mr. Nakamatsu has been a frequent guest with ensembles such as the Emerson, Tokyo, Prazak, Escher, Jupiter and Ying String Quartets, and has also toured extensively with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. In 2018, Mr. Nakamatsu was appointed Artist-in-residence of the Chautauqua Institution Piano Program.