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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Tatsuya Nagashima (Shaw-Tsu Chen) burst into the International limelight in 1993 as the first prize
winner of Italy's Ibla Grand Prize International Piano Competition.

Tatsuya showed extraordinary talent and promise at an early age. Born into a musical family--father is pianist, Pan-An Chen,
mother is late soprano, Min-Zu Wong--he began playing the piano at the age of four. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to
Tokyo--where he studied at the Musashino Academia Musicae. At youthful age of nine, Tatsuya gave his first public recital at
Yamaha Hall of Taipei with his brother and father. By age of thirteen, he captured the first prize in the Japan National Piano
Competition. Upon his graduation from the high school, at age 17, he left his family to study music in the United States and has
since residing in the country.

A stream of recognition, including numerous awards and firsts at national and international competitions mark his acceleration onto
the international stage. He have won over 20 first prizes in competitions including Los Angels Chopin Competition, and Ibla Grand
Prize International Piano Competition.

Tatsuya Nagashima is increasingly in demand as a recitalist at major festivals and venues around the world, from Carnegie Hall
and Lincoln Center in New York, to Royal Albert Hall and Barbican Centre in London, Schauspielhaus and Deutsche Rundfunk
Saal in Berlin, St Petersberg's Philharmonic Society Hall and the Bolishoi Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in Russia, as well as
National Concert Hall of Taiwan. As a guest soloist with orchestras, Nagashima has performed with orchestras of international
distinction include Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Raido Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,
American Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Symphony Orchestra, Russian Federal Orchestra, St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra, among
many others.

In 2000-2001 season, Nagashima made his critically acclaimed Lincoln Center debut at the Avery Fisher Hall. To celebrate
Arron Copland's centennial year (2000), he premiered the composer's Piano Concerto at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and
performed his major piano works in Tokyo, New York and Berlin. As a part of TECO's 922 earthquake relief charity concert
(Taiwan), Mr. Nagashima returned to his home country and performed Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto with the National
Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan at the National Concert Hall in Taipei. Also in the last season, he received an Honorary Award
from the Music Society of Moscow for his outreach program to young children. He was also invited to serve as a youngest-ever
juror at the Ibla Grand Prize International Piano Competition in Italy, and more recently, he was chosen to be one of 20
international jury members (other jury members include Maria Joao Pires, Alexandre Toradze, Leslie Howard, and Artur Pizzaro)
for the consumer association's piano tests in Belgium.

2001-2002 season started with a remarkable overnight success, with no rehearsals, when filling in last minute with the Greater
Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra (Timm Rolek, conductor). "The Strad" magazine wrote an article on this stunning event; "the
most bizarre moment of the month was provided by piano soloist Marie-Luise Hinrichs. She arrived from Germany to
play Mozart's Concerto No. 22 (with the Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra)....a day before the concert, the conductor
happened to catch her on her way out of the door. She was leaving for the airport. Had he not run into her, she would
simply have disappeared!...In remarkable stroke of luck, pianist Tatsuya Nagashima was available. He had only two
issues. First was that he was performing all of Brahms's violin sonatas the night before and couldn't make any of the
rehearsals. Second was that he had never played the piece before! He arrived to play the first concert and knocked our
socks off. Not only was he gracious and humble, but he played the piece beautifully." (p.721; The Strad, July 2001 issue)
Other highlights of the season include tours in Japan and Belgium where he made his debut at the Bijloke Festival in Gent

Mr. Nagashima earned Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from North Carolina School of the Arts, and spent next four
years studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His distinguished teachers include Ian Hobson, Eric Larsen,
Teruko Wakao and his father Pan-An Chen. In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctor of Music from the Kharkov Institute of
Music in Ukrain.

Nagashima's compact disk recordings are available on Angelok1, Orion Classics, Eroica Classical Recordings, and Fontec (Japan)
labels. For Angelok1, he recently recorded Liszt's Piano Concerto No.1 with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 and Copland's Piano Concerto with the Russian Federal Orchestra, Mozart's Piano Concertos with
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and together with Tchaikovsky International Competition Winner, cellist, Kirill Rodin and
the winner of Schubert International Violin Competition, Alexandre Trojansky, they recorded Beethoven's Triple Concerto.

His performances have been broadcasted on radio and TV in Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Russia, Germany, England, Belgium, Canada,
and the United States.

Tatsuya Nagashima is managed exclusively by Corbett Arts Management, Ltd.