Born in Tokyo in 1998, Mao Fujita was awarded Second Prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019. In October 2019, Fujita made his UK debut with the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, which was critically acclaimed by The Times. Immediately following this success, he made his debut in Seoul and Moscow. In 2017, Fujita won the 27th Concours international de piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, also receiving the Audience Award and Modern Times and Coup de Coeur prizes.
Recent highlights include Jolivet’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Kazuyoshi Akiyama and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Kahchun Wong and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in 2019, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Oleg Caetani and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in 2018.
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