Born in Aichi prefecture. Started playing the piano at the age of 3. So far, 3rd prize at the 6th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, 5th prize at the 9th Sydney International Piano Competition and 3 special prizes, 5th prize at the 18th Leeds International Piano Competition, 7th Bon Telecom Beethoven International Piano Competition Won 2nd prize in piano competition.
He won first place and the Grand Jury Prize (all categories) at the 3rd Tokyo Music Competition. Since then, he has performed at subscription concert with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, and others, and regularly performs with orchestras in Japan and across Europe, as well as recitals, chamber music, and on early instruments. His performances have been praised as having "an exceptional sense of time. It's like listening to an orchestra performed by a great conductor" (Pavel Gililov) and "an artist with outstanding poetic sensibility and philosophical wisdom" (Shigeo Hamada). In September 2020, he performed a groundbreaking concert at "B→C" organized by the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, where he used four keyboard instruments to play Cage and others, and was highly praised as "it is no exaggeration to say that this was an important night in the history of piano performance in Japan" (Masako Ito). Since 2019, he has been holding his own recital project "Real-time."
Recordings from Fontek include "Towards a Distant Lover: A Perspective from Schumann's Fantasia", "Portrait of the Night", "In the Twilight - Brahms/Liszt/Berg Works", "Bagatellen", and "Cage". Released Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (won the 76th Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival Award for Excellence in the Record Division), which has been well received in major papers such as Record Geijutsu.
After graduating from Aichi Prefectural Meiwa High School Music Department, entered Tokyo University of the Arts, and since 2011 studied piano at Berlin University of the Arts, graduating with the highest grades.
He has studied under Megumi Ito, Eva Pobwodka, and Reiner Becker. Currently, he is working on historical performance research under Jesper Christensen at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
Official site
http://tomoki-kitamura.com/