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With an innate musical sensitivity and naturalness to his artistry, 25-year old pianist Mao Fujita has already impressed many leading musicians as one of those special talents which come along only rarely, equally at home in Mozart as the major romantic repertoire, with the New York Times writing, "As soon as his fingers touched the keys, waves of airy filigree, beautifully shaped and accomplished, emerged in almost continuous streams” on the occasion of his US debut at Carnegie Hall in January 2023.
Born in Tokyo, Fujita was still studying at the Tokyo College of Music in 2017 when he took First Prize at the prestigious Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, along with the Audience Award, Prix Modern Times, and the Prix Coup de Coeur, which first brought him to the attention of the international music community. He was also the Silver Medalist at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where his special musical qualities received exceptional attention from a jury of leading musicians.
In the 24/25 season, Fujita continues his impressive series of recital debuts at majorfestivals and presenters across Europe, America and Asia, including Munich, Berlin, Zurich, Luxembourg, Essen, Dresden, Linz, Prague, Lucerne, Chicago, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Japan, alongside his debuts with the Philharmonia Orchestra, with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, and at the BBC Proms with the Czech Philharmonic. Other highlights this season include a return to Carnegie Hall for a solo recital at Stern Auditorium as well as a performance with the Wiener Symphoniker under Petr Popelka as part of the celebrations for the reopening of the Theater an der Wien.
He appears regularly in solo and chamber music recitals at major piano festivals and halls in Europe and Asia, performing with Renaud Capuçon, Antoine Tamestit, Kian Soltani, Zlatomir Fung, Marc Bouchkov, and Makoto Ozone, among others.
Fujita is an exclusive Sony Classical International artist. In October 2022, his eagerly- anticipated debut album on the Sony Classical label, a studio recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas, was released to unanimous acclaim for its transparent sound worlds and vividly-detailed interpretation. He has performed the full sonata cycle at the Verbier Festival, the Wigmore Hall, and across Japan’s major concert halls. His second album on the Sony Classical label, a wide-ranging and ambitious set entitled 72 Preludes that champions the 24 Preludes of Chopin, Scriabin, and Yashiro, is released in the autumn of 2024.
