Minoru Nojima, born on May 23, 1945, in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, was a classical pianist. As a child prodigy, Nojima won a major nationwide competition in Japan as a teenager and subsequently studied with Lev Oborin in Moscow and Constance Keene and Abram Chasins in New York City. His breakthrough moment came when he won second prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1969, followed by a debut at Carnegie Hall in the following year, In 1988, he released Nojima Plays Liszt, an album that later became notable for being one of the recordings plagiarized by Joyce Hatto in 2007. In 2013, he received the Japan Art Academy Award. Nojima also served as President of the Tokyo College of Music until his death on May 9, 2022.
