Tokyo Music Competition
WADA Kanon
Piano
Born in: Kanagawa, Japan
2nd place, Piano Section, The 23rd Tokyo Music Competition 2025
Musical Study Experiences
March 2015 Graduated from the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
September 2019 Graduated from the piano course of the Department of Instrumental Music, the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
March 2022 Received a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts with a major in piano
Teachers
Previously, Wada studied under AZUMA Seizo, TAKADA Masataka, KATO Nobuyoshi, HAYASHI Kyoko, KAMIMOTO Yuko, and TAKEUCHI Reiko. She has also studied with various teachers, including Andrey PISAREV, Pavel NERSESSIAN, Boris PETRUSHANSKY, Piotr PALECZNY, and NAKAMURA Hiroko, and has attended masterclasses at venues in Japan and abroad, including Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Imola International Piano Academy, and the 20th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy.
Musical Careers
| 2016 | 1st Place, the 9th International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede (The Netherlands) |
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| 2018 | Gold Prize, Group S, the 26th Young Artist Piano Concours |
| 2019 | Excellence Award, the 34th Nerima City Debut Concert Audition |
| 2025 | 2nd Place, Piano Section, the 23rd Tokyo Music Competition |
Further Activities
Since her success at the first recital in her hometown, Kamakura City, at 20 years old, Wada has been actively performing, rooted in the area, which led her to engage in local events such as appearing in some programs on Television Kanagawa and FM radio stations, and to perform with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by OKISAWA Nodoka. Not only has she earned reputation through her self-produced performances “Koten-teki recital (Recital in solo exhibition style)” and “Classic eno iriguchi series (A doorway to classical music series),” but also Wada has been performing energetically with other instrument and vocal artists and chorus groups. She is working on both performance and education, focusing on operating and supervising “Ongaku gino kentei (Music skills certification, Japan) and teaching Solfège. Since April 2024, she has been a part time teacher at the piano course of Tokyo University of the Arts.
Repertoire
As to concertos, her repertoire includes works by Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Beethoven. Her future plan is to work on other pieces by Ravel, Grieg, and Rachmaninoff. For solo or chamber music, Wada challenges a wide range of repertoire regardless of eras or nationalities; however, she studies works by Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev at the graduate school, which has attracted her with their composition method and their music full of melancholy. Regarding French modern music, she held a recital performing complete 13 pieces of Fauré’s 13 Barcarolles.