Yuji Nakamura
- A.R.P.T. (Australasian Registered Piano Technician)
- Dip. Piano Tuner/Technician, Yamaha Technical Academy, Hamamatsu 1983
- High School. Specialised in Mechanical engineering, Tokyo.
Yuji Nakamura began training as a piano tuner/technician with Yamaha in 1982. He spent the next ten years with the company, initially as a concert tuner and technician in Tokyo, and then in the sales department of the Hokkaido branch office.
In 1993, he joined the Hokkaido Music Academy where he was in charge of training apprentice piano tuners. The following year, he was appointed chief instructor of the academy's piano technique department, a position he held until 1999, when he moved to New Zealand and started working for Jenkin Piano Service.
Yuji tunes for private customers, recording studios and concert venues around Auckland as well as carrying out restoration, rebuilding and repair work. He is also primarily responsible for the training of Jenkin Piano Service's apprentices and is now a partner in the company.
In 2008 Yuji undertook specialist grand piano training at the Kawai Shigeru facility in Ryuyo, Japan.
As a member of the New Zealand Piano Tuners' and Technicians' Guild, Yuji has run practical classes at local workshops.
Yuji lives in Titirangi with his wife and their two children. In his spare time he enjoys relaxing at home with a good book or taking in New Zealand’s spectacular native scenery.