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Tokyo Music Competition
KURIYAMA Kanae
Clarinet
Born in: Fukuoka, Japan
2nd place, and Audience Award, Wind Section, The 23rd Tokyo Music Competition 2025
Musical Study Experiences
March 2025 Graduated from the clarinet course of the Department of Instrumental Music, the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, winning Acanthus Music Prize and Doseikai Prize
2025 Studies at the Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
The 10th class member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Geigeki Orchestra Academy for Wind
Teachers
Studied under HIGUCHI Yoshimi, MIKAI Hidemi, NAKADATE Soushi, Alessandro BEVERARI. Took masterclasses by Charles NEIDICH, OSHIMA Ayako, TAKEDA Tadayoshi, and FUJII Kazuo.
Musical Careers
| 2022 | 3rd Place, Wind Category, College Division, the 24th Japan Player’s Competition |
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| 2024 | 4th Place, Clarinet Category, the 93rd Music Competition of Japan |
| 2025 | 3rd Place (1st place not awarded), the 11th Japan Clarinet Competition 2nd Place and Audience Award, Wind Section, the 23rd Tokyo Music Competition |
Further Activities
Kuriyama performed with the Kitakyushu Grand Philharmony Orchestra, conducted by YAMASHITA Kazufumi, at the 9th Wakiagaru Music Festival in Kitakyushu. She also performed with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, led by IIMORI Norichika, at the concert hosted by Japan Federation of Musicians “Supporting Project for Emerging Artists Orchestra Series: the 81st edition in Fukuoka.”
In addition, she appears in chamber music concerts and outreach activities for children, as well as performing events more open to society such as supporting disaster-affected areas through music.
Repertoire
Kuriyama has been working on broad variety of music from Romantic era to modern to contemporary. As to concertos, her repertoire includes works by Mozart, Weber, and Copland; for sonatas, she covers Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, and so on. Not only does she specialize in operatic virtuoso pieces such as those based on Rossini’s operas, La traviata, and Rigoletto; she is also familiar with contemporary virtuoso pieces, including those written by Françaix and Stravinsky. Furthermore, Kuriyama has been actively challenging chamber ensembles, such as wind quintet, wind quartet, and trio d’anches.