Maiko Ami
Born in Nara. After graduating from the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts and the Faculty of Music of Tokyo University of the Arts, completed the Graduate School.Won the 1st prize at the Takarazuka Vega Music Competition and 3rd prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition and the Panama International Piano Competition.Performed at the Chopin Festival in Omotesando, the Spring Festival in Tokyo, NHK-FM, the Yokohama International Piano Concert. Gave recitals in Germany, Spain and Portugal as well. As a soloist, performed with Geidai Philharmonia Orchestra,Tokyo and Philharmonisches Orchester Plauen-Zwickau.taught at the High School of Music attached to the Tokyo University of the Arts from 2017 to 2022 .Currently, teach at the Japan Women's University.
Kazuo Irie
Concert pianist. After graduating at the top of his class from Tokyo University of the Arts and its graduate school, he completed his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.
He has been awarded numerous awards, including 1st place at the 77th Japan Music Competition and 5th place at the 1st CWPM (Portugal).
Kazuo currently teaches at Toho Gakuen School of Music and Showa Academia Musicae.
Shigetoshi Ezawa
Shigetoshi Ezawa started playing the piano at the age of five. From 2010 to 2014 he studied at the Toho-Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo under Yuko Ninomiya, and regularly attended the masterclass of Mikhail Voskresensky and Shinji Ono. In 2017, he pursued his studies at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in the class of Andreas Groethuysen. He also had a lot of opportunities coached by other eminent pianists, such as Dina Yoffe, Pascal Devoyon, Michel Beroff,Maxim Mogilevsky and Eliso Virsaladze.He is currently studying Chamber music with Andreas Groethuysen, Pavel Gililov and Clemens Hagen.Shigetoshi is a laureate of numerous competitions, such as the Gold Prize at PTNA piano Competition (2011), the Gold prize at the Toho piano Competition (2012) Kirishima International Music Festival Award (2012), the 3rd prize of Japan music competition (2012).He is very grateful to the scholarship which supported him Rohm Music Foundation. From 2014 to 2015. He works as a lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts
Kentaro Kawada
After graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts Music High School, Yoshito Kitabata completed his studies at the Tchaikovsky Memorial Moscow State Conservatory as a recipient of the Rohm Music Foundation Overseas Scholarship. He has won numerous awards, including 1st place in the Kanagawa Music Competition, 3rd place in the Tokyo Music Competition, and being a finalist in the Sergei Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition.He currently serves as a board member of the NPO "Association for Nurturing Young Talent in Arts and Culture," a program officer at MPA Music Academy, a lecturer for the Early Talent Development Project at Nagoya Music School, and an associate professor at Nagoya University of the Arts.
Yoshito Kitabata
Yoshito Kitabata was born in Osaka, Japan. In addition to the 3rd place in the 6th Sendai International Music Competition, he has won numerous awards in Japan and abroad. He studied at Kyoto City University of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts, and after returning to Japan, he has been active as a soloist and chamber music player. He has been teaching as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo College of Music, The Music High School Attached to the Faculty of Music Tokyo University of the Arts and accompaniment assistant for the string instruments department of Tokyo University of the Arts.
Eriko Gomita
Graduated from The Music High School attached to The Faculty of Music, Tokyo National University of the Arts, the masters program at Tokyo University of the Arts and Meisterklasse at Hochschule Musik und Theater München. Second prize at Japan Student music Competition, Mozart Competition.Third prize at Nojima Minoru Yokosuka Competition, got grand prix at Ishikawa Music Masterclass, and got the diploma at international Mozart Competition.Selected as scholarship student of Aspen Music Festival in USA.Played with Tokyo symphony Orchestra,Geidai symphony orchestra, members of NHK symphony orchestra and at solo recital including Germany, Spain.Judging the International Chopin Competition in ASIA and other competitions.Chronological listing of teacher:Kyoko Kouno, Midori Nohara, Ryoko Fukasawa, Sumiko Mikimoto, Yoshie Koura, Katsumi Ueda, Gabriel Tacchino, Akiko Ebi, and Michael Schäfer.
Koji Shimoda
Koji Shimoda currently has piano classes and lectures at Japanese leading music universities such as Toho Gakuen School of Music, Showa University of Music and Soai University. Graduated from Musashino Academia Musicae and completed his post graduate studies with honors as a scholarship holder of Polish Government at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. He is a jury member at numerous piano competitions such as: Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszow, International Young Chopin Competition in Antonin, Poland. Koji Shimoda is also well-known in the circles of music reviews. He is widely recognized as a distinguished expert, particularly in Chopin and Polish music. He is an author of musicological books such as: “Truthful Interpretation of Chopin” (Yamaha, 2010).
Haruhi Hata
After graduating from the Music High School attached to Tokyo University of the Arts, the individual completed both undergraduate and graduate studies at the same university. While still a student, they actively premiered numerous works by Japanese composers and developed a broad repertoire ranging from Bach to contemporary compositions. They won first prize at the Debussy International Competition and have been invited to judge international competitions such as summer courses in Europe, the Scriabin Competition (Moscow), and the Île-de-France Competition (France). In addition to performing, they engage in music criticism and concert production. Currently, they serve as a Specially Appointed Professor at Toho Gakuen Graduate School of Music and are the director of Atelier H.
Ayako Maruyama
Ayako Maruyama, a pianist, was born into a musical family in Tsukuba, Japan. She graduated from the prestigious class of YuKakuno at the Tokyo University of the Fine Arts with a Bachelor and master of Music degree and subsequently moved to Munich for her „Meisterklasse“ degree, where she has studied with Michael Schäfer since 2014 - 2018. She performs regularly in solo and Chember Music recital in Japan.
Ayumu Yamanaka
Ayumu YAMANAKA has started piano lessons at 5, and studied at Tokyo University of Arts and Liszt Academy in Hungary.He got the first prizes in Takarazuka Vega music competition and Settsu Little Camellia Concours. Now he is docent at Tokyo University of Arts and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.
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