Minoru Nojima began lessons on the piano at the age of three under Ms. Aiko Iguchi, one of Japan's most renowned piano instructors. After completing studies at Toho High School, Nojima continued his studies at Japan's prestigious Toho Gakuen School of Music before being invited by the then Soviet Cultural Affairs Ministry to study at Moscow Conservatory of Music between 1966 and 1968 under the tutelage of Lev Oborin. He began to play in competitions and in that following year, walked away with a second prize at the 3rd Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Mr. Nojima's career escalated quickly. In 1970, he made his debut recital at the Carnegie Hall to the critically acclaimed review of The New York Times. Since that point he has based his activities mainly in New York and Tokyo, and maintaining a busy schedule of recitals, orchestra engagements, and chamber music performances throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

In Japan, Minoru Nojima's professional career began with a stunning performance together with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He has since performed together with most of Japan's major orchestras, including frequent appearances with the New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and countless others, in both domestic subscription performances and as a soloist on overseas tours.

With a strong interest in furthering his career, Minoru Nojima has participated several times as an adjudicator for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He traveled to Moscow in February 1986 for a special performance of contemporary composer Teizo Matsumura's "Second Concerto for Piano," and played that same work again in May 1988 for the opening of the 3rd Leningrad International Music Festival, receiving high praises at both venues.

In September 1994, Mr. Nojima held a fantastically well-received Suntory Hall recital of Ravel works, in which major Tokyo newspapers appraised as, "... the best performance heard in years ..." and, "with a miraculous technique, his musicianship is polished to the extreme."

In addition to various scheduled recitals during the 1995-1996 season, Mr. Nojima also has been invited to play together with many of Japan's major orchestras, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, and Gunma Symphony Orchestra.

In May 1996, Minoru Nojima has performed Teizo Matsumura's "Second Concerto for Piano" in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Following this, he performed Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 during the Japan tour of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal under the baton of Charles Dutoit.

Mr. Nojima is currently in the middle of a Mozart Cycle that began in 1999, in which he is performing the six Mozart Piano Concertos over a span of three years, in collaboration with the Sendai Phiharmonic and Maestro Yuzo Toyama.

His recordings include a 1988 release of, Minoru Nojima Plays Liszt , of which Stereo Review magazine stated, "... a stunning demonstration of technique put at the service of profoundly musical ends..." For his 1990 recording entitled, Minoru Nojima Plays Ravel, this artist was praised by Record Geijutsu (Record Artistry) magazine as, "undoubtedly one of the world's foremost players of Ravel."