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Tomoki Kitamura


Piano

Born in Aichi (Japan) and based in Berlin, Tomoki Kitamura’s solo career was launched suddenly when he won 1st prize and the Grand Jury Prize at the prestigious Tokyo Music Competition, soon to be followed by prizes at international piano competitions including Hamamatsu, Sydney, Leeds, and Beethoven Competition (Bonn).



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In early 2025, Kitamura was named Best Emerging Classical Artist in Japan 2024 in the Japanese Cultural Ministry’s 75th “Art Selection Award”.
Appearing regularly in the major concert halls in Europe and Japan, he is a multifaceted artist much sought after for the poetic expressivity of his interpretations, and his meticulously conceived recital programs on piano and fortepiano. He has performed a vast collection of concertos with orchestras including the NHK and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras, Osaka Philharmonic (indeed most symphony and chamber orchestras throughout Japan), Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Sydney Symphony, the Staatsphilharmonie Kaiserslautern, and The Halle Orchestra (UK) under such conductors as Kirill Karabits, Sir Mark Elder, Ryan Wigglesworth, Sylvain Cambreling, Alexander Liebreich, and Eiji Oue . He is also a highly respected chamber musician.

Many of his recent activities and interpretations also centre around contemporary music, while drawing inspiration from his interest in historical performance practice. His performances of the works by Cage, Holliger, Nono, Takemitsu, Hosokawa, among others, have met with great acclaim, and a special recital programme he curated in 2022, exploring the piano music of Japanese composers from the 1950s and ‘70s, was awarded the Keizo Saji Prize - the most authoritative music prize of this genre in Japan.

His seven solo-albums to date, with repertoire spanning classical to contemporary CDs (including works by Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Berg, Bartók, Cage, Grieg), all received excellent reviews and accolades.

His latest album with the revered label Fontec (released March 2026) includes his live recording of Toru Takemitsu’s Asterism with Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, alongside solo and chamber works by Berio, Stockhausen, Messiaen and Hachimura. This will be followed by a new album featuring piano solo and chamber works of Toshio Hosokawa recorded together with the Arditti Quartet at WDR Cologne.

Kitamura studied piano with Prof. Kei Itoh, Prof. Ewa Pobłocka, and Prof. Rainer Becker. After receiving his Diplom with the Distinction from Universität der Künste Berlin in 2017, he continued his research focusing on historical interpretation practice with Prof. Jesper Christensen at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.