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Piano: Tomoya Nakase

Tomoya Nakase, piano

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Born in 2006. Started playing the piano at the age of 4.
2014 B-class Bronze Prize, 2015 C-class Gold Prize, 2017 E-class Bronze Prize, Senzoku Gakuen Maeda Prize, 2018 Junior G-class Best Prize, 2020 G-class Gold Prize, Tokyo Governor's Award at the National Finals of the Pitina Piano Competition , Winning the Hinoki Award.
Chopin International Piano Competition in ASIA Asian Games 2015 Gold Prize/Soloist Prize in Elementary School 3rd and 4th Grade Category, 2016 Gold Prize/Concerto Prize in Concerto AB Category (high school students and below), 2017 Gold Prize/Soloist Prize in Elementary School 5th/6th Grade Category, 2018 2019 Concerto B category (no age limit) silver award, 2019 junior high school student category gold award and soloist award.
In 2017, at the 7th Milan International Junior Piano Competition (Italy), he won the 1st prize in the D category, ASSOLUTO.
2018 3rd Tkaczewski International Piano Competition (Poland) Piano Talents category (under 13 years old) Grand Prix, Piano Prodigies category (under 16 years old) 1st prize and Most Promising Talent.
Participated in the workshop of Maria João Pires and Claudio Soares in Portugal in 2019.
Won 1st prize in the 1st Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition JAPAN E category.
The 73rd All Japan Student Music Concours in Osaka, 1st place in the junior high school piano division, 1st place in the national competition, Aiko Iguchi Award, Nomura Award, Yasuko Fukuda Award, Japan Post Insurance Encouragement Award, and ANA Award.
In January 2023, he performed "Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2" with Kentaro Kawase/Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada/Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.
He has studied under Katsuko Kaneko, Aki Kuroda, Hironao Suzuki and Yukio Yokoyama. A third-year student at Keio High School.