After attending the Toho Gakuen School of Music under Hisako Ueno, Michiko Okamoto and Shoichi Hase, Masaya Kamei is currently studying under Momo Kodama at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and pursuing a Soloist Diploma Course at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 2022 he gained international recognition when he won the First Prize, Journalists Award and Audience Award at the Long-Thibaud Competition in France. That same year he won Third Prize at the Maria Canals Competition. During a tour of Japan in 2024 with the Budapest MÁV Symphony Orchestra, he also appeared alongside such orchestras as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and New Japan Philharmonic. Invited to the Festival de la Grange de Meslay and Lille Piano(s) Festival during the summer of 2024, he returned to the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron to perform with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille under the baton of Lawrence Foster. He has given recitals in Vienna, Sydney and Seoul.

Teachers

2023 - : Momo Kodama
2019 - : Michiko Okamoto
2019 - : Hisako Ueno
2017 - 2019 : Hideo Sugiura
2013 - : Shoichi Hase
2005 - 2013 : Mayuko Aoki

Degrees

2023 - : Soloist Diploma Course (Postgraduate), Toho Gakuen School of Music
2023 - : Master, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
2019 - 2023 : Bachelor, Toho Gakuen School of Music

Concerts

2024 : Suntory Hall, Tempoprimo, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV/ Ken'ichiro Kobayashi
2024 : Suntory Hall, Japan Arts, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko
2024 : Suntory Hall, eplus inc., N/A
2024 : Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, Lille Piano Festival, N/A
2024 : Château de Florans, Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra/ Lawrence Foster
2024 : Chapel of Saint-Libert, Tours, Festival de la Grange de Meslay, N/A
2022 : NHK Studio, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, NHK Symphony Orchestra/ Toshiaki Umeda

Competitions

2022 : Third Prize, Maria Canals International Music Competition
2022 : First Prize, Audience Prize, Press Prize, Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition
2019 : First Prize, Audience Prize, PTNA Piano Competition Special Grade
2019 : First Prize, Audience Prize, Music Competition of Japan Piano Division