Wataru Hisasue is currently studying under Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He is the recipient of several scholarships, the ROHM Music Foundation among others, and has won top prizes in both national and international competitions, from the First and Audience Prizes at the Concours International de Piano de Lyon in 2015 to, most recently, Third Prize at the ADR Wettbewerb and two special prizes at the Concours Géza Anda 2024. Especially interested in the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, he has performed in both Europe and Japan, appearing alongside the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, Collegium Musicum Basel, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Kammerorchester and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. He will soon release a second digital album with music distributor Musideco.

Teachers

2018 - : Prof. Klaus Hellwig
2017 - 2018 : Prof. Pascal Devoyon
2015 - 2016 : Prof. Emmanuel Strosser (During the Erasmus Program)
2013 - 2017 : Prof. Gilead Mishory

Degrees

2023 - : Konzertexamen, Universität der Künste Berlin
2021 - 2023 : Master Piano Chamber Music, Universität der Künste Berlin
2017 - 2021 : Master Piano Solist, Universität der Künste Berlin
2015 - 2016 : Erasmus Program, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
2013 - 2017 : Bachelor, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Concerts

2024 : Rathausprunksaal Landshut, Freunde der Musiker Landshut e.V., Piano Recital
2024 : Oji Hall (Tokyo) & Kyoto Aoyama Music Memorial Hall Barocksaal, AMATI Inc., Piano Recital
2023 : Stadttheater Gießen, Stadttheater Gießen, Philharmonisches Orchester Gießen & Andreas Schüller
2022 : Philharmonie Berlin, AOB, Akademisches Orchester Berlin & Andreas Schüller
2022 : MUZA Kawasaki, MUZA Kasawaki, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra & Kazushi Ono

Competitions

2024 : Two special Prizes awarded by the jury (Liszt-Bartók-Prize and The G.Henle Verlag Beethoven-Prize), Concours Géza Anda 2024
2017 : 3rd Prize, special Prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned composition by Pascal Dusapin, 66th ARD International Music Competition
2016 : 1st Prize, Special Prize "Deutscher Pianistenpreis", Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb 2016
2015 : 1st Prize, Audience Prize, Concours international de Piano de Lyon