Piano for Sleep: Clair de Lune

Comfortable piano melodies invite you to peaceful sleep...
A supreme soundscape spreads out, delivering ultimate healing for your mind and body, perfect for sleep-inducing music before bed ♪

Supervised by music therapist, Ms. Nozomi Nagasaka

◆Title
Piano for Sleep ~Clair de lune~

◆Artist
Chihiro Tan

◆Tracklist
01. Debussy: Clair de lune
02. J.S. Bach: Air on the G String
03. MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
04. Chopin: Prelude Op.28-7
05. Fauré: Sicilienne
06. J.S. Bach: Prelude (from The Well-Tempered Clavier)
07. Beethoven: Farewell to the Piano
08. Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
09. Godard: Berceuse de Jocelyn
10. Schumann: Träumerei (from Kinderszenen)
11. Burgmüller: Ave Maria
12. Chopin: Nocturne No. 2
13. Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin
14. Schubert: Serenade (from Schwanengesang)
15. Burgmüller: Angel's Voice
16. Lichner: Forget-Me-Not
17. Mendelssohn: Venetian Gondola Song, Op. 19 No. 6 (from Songs Without Words, Book 1)
18. Fauré: Pavane
19. Schubert: Intermezzo (from Rosamunde)
20. Beethoven: Moonlight

◆Product Description
In this work, the talented "Chihiro Tan" performs classical masterpieces with beautiful melodies, creating a floating sensation through sound effects. As you listen, the piano sound gradually fades, eventually reaching a quiet end... This serves as an introduction to sleep, inviting you into dreams.

◆Piano: Chihiro Tan Profile

At the age of 5, she was scouted by Masaaki Niwa and Kazuoki Fujii, becoming the youngest student at the Toho College of Music Research Institute.
At the age of 11, she made her recital debut as the youngest performer in the "Teenage Performers" series organized by the Piano Teachers' National Association of Japan.
In the same year, she performed at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition invitation concert and collaborated with the New Japan Philharmonic. The following year, she appeared on BBC Radio. From this time, she held numerous solo recitals, including promenade concerts.

From the age of 12, for three years, she received a scholarship to become an external research student at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Piano Performance Institute, where she studied under Stanislav Bunin.
She graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music High School, Toho Gakuen University Department of Music Performance (Piano Major), and Toho Gakuen University Graduate School.
She has won numerous awards, including the Kawai Music Competition Gold Prize, the Japan-France Music Competition Junior High/High School Division Grand Prize, and first place in the Rosenstock International Piano Competition.
She collaborated with Koichiro Harada and the ATM Ensemble, performing the Japanese premiere of the chamber music arrangement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, which was highly acclaimed in music magazines. In recent years, with the cooperation of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, she has contributed her performance to Keio University's Digital Media and Contents Center's "Digitization and Utilization of Music Materials" project, earning high praise.
At the 2011 Liszt Bicentennial Celebration, her performance of all nine Beethoven symphonies in Liszt's piano arrangements attracted significant attention in the field. These recordings were released as a 5-CD Beethoven complete works set, a first for a Japanese artist.

In addition to live albums such as Stenhammar's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Atterberg's Piano Concerto, her 2015 release "Ave Maria Schubert (Liszt arrangement): 13 Songs for Piano" was selected as an associate special recommendation by Record Geijutsu (Record Art magazine).
In August 2018, she released "Yamato Koi Uta," a two-CD set featuring her singing and playing self-composed music for all 100 poems of the Hyakunin Isshu. It is currently selling well as "Japan's most beautiful lullaby," awakening the spirit of a thousand years ago.

She has earned the deep trust of professors and talented musicians both in Japan and abroad, and has collaborated with many renowned performers. She has studied piano under Kazuoki Fujii, Ryoko Fukasawa, Yoshie Takara, Yasuko Sugimoto, Keiko Mikami, Izumi Komoriya, Stanislav Bunin, and Mikhail Voskresensky. She has studied chamber music under Hakuo Mori, Hamao Fujiwara, Juro Aoki, Masumi Temura, and Yoshiko Nagura; vocal music under Keiko Hibi and Kinomi Nagoya; violin under the late Kyoko Suzuki; and cello under Makito Chonan, Yumehito Wada, and Sumiko Kurata. She is a board member of Be Free, a non-profit organization for animals.
https://www.chihirotan.com/

◆Music Therapist: Nozomi Nagasaka Profile

MT-BC (Board Certified Music Therapist by the Certification Board for Music Therapists, USA)
Certified Music Therapist by the Japanese Music Therapy Association

Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Department of Vocal Music, and completed her master's degree in Music Therapy and Vocal Music at the Graduate School of Arts, Illinois State University.
In San Diego, California, she studied under Dr. Barbara Reuer, former president of the American Music Therapy Association, gaining experience in wellness, palliative care music therapy, and drum circle facilitation.
Upon returning to Japan, she established Rhythm in Life with the desire to help people create better lives through music, valuing the "here and now," emotions, and the power of resonance. She conducts clinical activities in welfare, education, medical settings, and local communities. She also teaches as a part-time lecturer at Musashino University and Tokyo Rissho Junior College, and as a drum circle facilitator, she is active in helping more people experience the power of music in communities, companies, and international conferences.
Her publications include "Music Therapist" (Shinsuisha) and translations such as "Music Therapist Handbook" (ATN Corporation) and "Together in Rhythm" (ATN Corporation).
http://rhythm-in-life.com/