Tokyo Music Competition
MASEDA Ayaka
Piano
Born in: Miyazaki, Japan
3rd 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
March 2019 Graduated from the piano course of the Department of Instrumental Music, the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts, winning Geidai Klavier Prize, Acanthus Music Prize, and Doseikai Prize
March 2022 Received a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, winning Geidai Klavier Prize and Acanthus Music Prize for the graduate school
2025 Continues her study in the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
Teachers
Studied under IKEGAWA Reiko and ARIMORI Hiroshi.
Musical Careers
| 2016 | 3rd Place, the 1st Danubia Talents International Music Competition (Hungary) |
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| 2018 | 2nd Place, the 37th Music Contest in Iizuka (Fukuoka) |
| 2023 | 5th Place and Special Jury Award, the 19th Khachaturian International Piano Competition (Armenia) |
| 2025 | 3rd Place, Piano Section, the 23rd Tokyo Music Competition |
Further Activities
Maseda was selected as a top student at Tokyo University of the Arts and performed with the Geidai Philharmonia Orchestra, Tokyo. She has also performed with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Danube Symphony Orchestra in Hungary, and the Kraków State Philharmonic in Poland.
Maseda is a scholarship recipient of the Aoyama Music Foundation in the fiscal year 2018.
She has been performing in a wide range of activities, including well-received recitals with her talk about featured music pieces, chamber music performances, piano accompaniment, piano parts in orchestral works, and Tchaikovsky’s complete symphonies for 2 pianos. She also teaches younger generations and won PTNA (PIANO TEACHERS’ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Japan)’s special instructor award in 2025.
Repertoire
Maseda has established reputations for music works written by Russian and the Former Soviet Union’s composers such as Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, and Babajanian; however, she has been working on various music works regardless of nationalities and eras. Especially, she is familiar with descriptive style of works such as Mussorgsky’s “Tableaux d’une exposition,” Tchaikovsky’s “Les saisons,” and Ravel’s “Miroirs.” In addition to solo and concerto works, she has many repertoire for ensembles and vocal music accompaniments (vocal pieces, operas).