Tokyo Music Competition
KATO Daiki
Piano
Born in: Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
1st place, and Audience Award, Piano Section, The 7th Tokyo Music Competition 2009
Musical Study Experiences
A graduate of Showa University of Music and Showa Graduate School of Music Master’s Program. Completed the Meister Program at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with top honors.
Teachers
Studied under EGUCHI Fumiko, Antti SIIRALA, and Adrian OETIKER.
Musical Careers
| 2008 | 3rd Place, the 11th Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists (Germany) |
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| 2009 | Silver Prize, Special-Level, the 33rd PTNA Piano Competition 1st Place and Audience Award, Piano Section, the 7th Tokyo Music Competition |
| 2013 | 1st Place, the 17th Edition of Hamamatsu International Piano Academy 1st Place, the 5th ASEAN International Concerto Competition 3rd Place and Special Prize from the Mayor of Bydgoszcz (for the best performance of the classical sonata), the 9th International Paderewski Piano Competition (Poland) |
| 2021 | 1st Place, Steinway & Sons Förderpreis Klassik for Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |
| 2022 | 1st Place and Donzdorf Prize, the 48th Palma d’Oro International Piano Competition–Aloise Vecchiato Prize–Finale Ligure (Italy) 3rd Place, the 5th International Piano Competition “Halina Czerny-Stefańska in Memoriam” (Poland) |
Further Activities
Kato has performed with various orchestras such as the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo (previously Tokyo New City Orchestra), the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra,the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, the Paderewski Symphony Orchestra, the Filharmonia Sudecka, Indonesian National Orchestra, with conductors KOBAYASHI Ken’ichiro, OTOMO Naoto, IIMORI Norichika, UMEDA Toshiaki, KOIZUMI Kazuhiro, ENKOJI Masahiko, TAKASEKI Ken, GENDA Shigeo, WATANABE Kazumasa, IWAMURA Chikara, NAITO Akira, TANAKA Yuko, MATSUI Keita, Marek PIJAROWSKI, Tadeusz STRUGAŁA, and Gabriel LAUFER. In chamber music, he is active in organizing self-produced chamber music concerts with other musicians of his generation.
Kato is a recipient of 2016–2017 Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship, a 2019 participant of the Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, and a recipient of a 2019 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship.
Repertoire
Baroque to contemporary. I have a particular interest in music of Beethoven, Liszt and Bartók that reflects philosophy about human nature.