Paderewski International Piano Competition

Born in Tokyo, he grew up in a bilingual environment of Japanese and Russian. After graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music High School and the Faculty of Music itself, he studied at the Royal College of Music in the UK, where he obtained a Master's degree and an Artist Diploma. He was a recipient of the Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship in 2012 and 2013 , and the Meiji Yasuda Quality of Life Cultural Foundation Scholarship in 2014. From 2015 to 2016 , he studied in Leipzig, Germany, and from 2016 to 2018 , he studied at the Moscow Conservatory.

　I have studied under Yuko Matsumoto, Atsuko Okada, Elena Ashkenazy, Sumiko Mikimoto, Vadim Sakharov, Nikita Fitenko, Dmitry Alexeyev, Gerald Faut, and Eliso Virsaladze. I studied under both Elena Ashkenazy and Atsuko Okada for over 10 years.

 

　He won the top prize at the 2nd Minoru Nojima Yokosuka Piano Competition and first prize at the 80th Japan Music Competition. While studying in the UK, he won first prize at the Malmö Nordic Piano Competition, second prize at the Almaty International Piano Competition, and a special prize at the 2017 Brahms International Music Competition .

He performs both domestically and internationally, including solo recitals at venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre (London), the Rachmaninoff Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo Opera City's " B → C ", Chanel Pygmalion Days, and the Hamarikyu Asahi Hall. To date, he has performed with orchestras such as the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, Geidai Philharmonia, Kazakhstan National Symphony Orchestra, and the Lund Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, and has collaborated with conductors such as Alexander Lazarev, David Geringas, Masahiko Enkoji, Naoto Otomo, and Kazuki Yamada. In addition to appearances at the "Tokyo Spring Music Festival" and the Rohm Music Festival, he has also collaborated extensively in chamber music with artists such as Mayuko Kamio, Natsumi Tamai, Karen Kido, Ryotaro Ito, Stepan Jaković, István Kohán, Alessandro Beverari, and Sho Kitagawa.

　In 2019 , his debut album, "State of Mind" (a semi-recommended album by Record Geijutsu), released on the TRITON label, featured excellent performances of works by Rachmaninoff, Taneyev, and Shostakovich, earning her praise as "a grand-scale piano performance that hints at great potential."

 

　After serving as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo College of Music and Tokyo University of the Arts , he is currently a full-time lecturer at Tokyo College of Music. In addition to judging major piano competitions in Japan, he is regularly invited to participate in music festivals and workshops both in Japan and abroad , including the Washington International Piano Festival (Washington D.C. , USA ) and the Talent Music Summer Courses & Festival (Brescia, Italy) .

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