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In 2025, he won second place at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, one of the world's three major competitions, becoming the highest-ever Japanese player to achieve this feat. He attracted significant international attention. In 2017, he won third place and the Special Commissioned Work Prize at the Munich International Music Competition. He has also won first place and the Audience Prize at the Lyon International Piano Competition, the 2009 Aoyama Music Award Newcomer Award, the 2019 Aoyama Music Award Baroquesaal Prize, and the 2024 Aoyama Music Award Aoyama Prize. At the 16th Géza Anda International Piano Competition in 2024, he won two special prizes awarded by the jury: the Beethoven Prize and the Liszt-Bartók Prize.
He has performed at numerous music festivals, including the AUDI Music Festival and the Würzburg Festival, and has performed with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
In 2021, he released the CD "The Recital," which was selected as a special selection by the magazine Record Geijutsu. In October 2025, he released a collection of Dusapin's works on the German label GENUIN classics.
In 2013, she received the Heiwado Foundation Arts Encouragement Award in the Music category and was a recipient of the same foundation's overseas study grant. She was a scholarship recipient of the Rohm Music Foundation, a public interest incorporated foundation, in 2018/19. She studied under Kuniko Murakami and Yasuko Tasumi at the Freiburg University of Music, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and the University of the Arts in Berlin, graduating with the highest honors at each institution. She studied under G. Mishori, E. Strosser, P. Devaillant, and K. Helwig. She currently resides in Berlin.