Mao Fujita
Pianist Mao Fujita is a fast-rising figure who has won several major awards. He has dual specialties in Mozart and Romantic piano music.
Fujita was born in Tokyo on November 28, 1998. He took up the piano at age three. Fujita's early teachers included Yuka Matsuyama and Gen Matsuyama. He attended the Tokyo College of Music High School and then went on to the Tokyo College of Music talented students' division as a special scholarship student in piano performance. Fujita has notched an impressive series of competition showings, beginning with a first prize at the junior section of the World Classic competition in Taiwan. He followed that up with wins at major European competitions: the Rosario Marciano International Competition in Vienna in 2013 and the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 2017. Beginning in 2013, he issued solo albums on the Naxos label's Japanese division. Fujita's competition career was capped by a silver medal at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia in 2019. In 2020, he released the album Chopin: Impromptus & Scherzos on the Naxos label. He went on for further studies with Kirill Gerstein in Berlin.
Fujita has appeared with major orchestras in Europe and Japan, including the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony. He has been visible at festivals, including the Tsinandali Festival in the Republic of Georgia, the Riga-Jurmala Festival in Latvia, and the Klavier-Ruhr Festival in Germany. In 2021, Fujita was signed to the Sony Classical label, and the following year, he released a complete cycle of Mozart piano sonatas. He performed the cycle in person at Switzerland's Verbier Festival in 2021 and was slated to make his debut with them at the end of the 2022-2023 season at Wigmore Hall in London. With 2023 concerts slated for the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin and the Filarmonica della Scala on tour in several European cities, Fujita was emerging as one of the world's piano stars to watch.
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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 12 Nov 2021
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Tchaikovsky: Romance, Op. 5 (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 11 Jun 2021
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Paderewski: Piano Masterpieces
Yukio Yokoyama, Mao Fujita, Yukine Kuroki
Classical - Released by Naxos Japan on 1 Feb 2019
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Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 19 Mar 2021
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Beethoven - Rachmaninov - Miyoshi
Classical - Released by Naxos Crescendo on 1 Feb 2014
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Beethoven, Liszt & Prokofiev: Piano Works
Classical - Released by Naxos Japan on 16 Sep 2015
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Listen to the Universe
Mao Fujita, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Masahiko Enkoji
Classical - Released by Naxos Japan on 4 Sep 2019
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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 12 Nov 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky: Romance, Op. 5 (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 11 Jun 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Spring and Asura (Jin Kazama Version)
Classical - Released by Naxos Japan on 28 Aug 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 (Musical Moments)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 19 Mar 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo