Kenichiro Kojima

Biography

Musical Education
2011-2020 Bachelor & Master of piano with Prof.Stepan Simonian (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg)
2013-2016 study of chamber music with Prof.Niklas Schmidt (HfMT Hamburg)
2014-2018 Post-Graduate of piano with Prof.Eliso Virsaladze (Scuola di Musica di Fiesole,Italien)
2019- Bachelor of orchestra conducting with Prof.Marc Piollet (Kunstuniversität Graz)

Competition as Pianist
2012 3.Prize at the Piano Acadmy Pianale 2012, Fulda/Germany
2013 3.Prize at the Elise Meyer Wettbewerb, Hamburg/Germany
Semifinalist, Audience Prize at the 5th Sendai International Music Competition, Japan
2014 Semifinalist at the 3rd Takamatsu International Piano Competition, Japan
2017 1.Preze at the ICoM Piano Award, Hamburg/Germany
2018 3 Prize at the Vigo International Piano Competition 2018, Spain
2019 1. Prize with two special Prizes at the Livorno International Piano Competition 2019, Italy
the silver medal at the Berlin International Music Competition, Berlin
the First Great Award at the 4th Manhattan International Music Compeititon, New York
2020 Special Mentions given by Marta Argerich, Sergio Tiempo & Pablo Galdo at the Vigo IPC 2020, Spain
The Ivo Pogorelich Prize at the 5th Manhattan International Music Compeititon, New York

Concerts and Engagements as Pianist (2019-2020)
- Under the management of Manhattan Concerts Artists
- Debut at Carnegie Hall, New York/USA
- Solo recital at the International Music Festival Puplinge Classique, to be recorded and broadcast by the Radio Télévision Suisse
(RTS)
- Debut at the Japaner Foundation in Cologne/Germany
- Debut at Kaunas State Philharmonic Hall’‘ in Lithuania (March 2020) and in Milan (May 2020)
- Invited by Spring Green Music Festival in Kanazawa/Japan in May 2020 again and perform the concerto for left hand of Maurice
Ravel with Maestro Junichi Hirokami and Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra.

As Conductor and Korrepetitor
11/2014 - 03/2015 Korrepetitor (HfMT Hambug)
11/2016 Korrepetitor, Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullmann)
2/2017 Korrepetitor, Venus and Adnis (Blow)
5/2017 Korrepetitor, Dido and Aneas (Purcell), Riders to the see (Williams)
11/2017 Assistent and Korrepetitor, Alcina (Händel)
9/2017 Conduct, Symphoniker Hamburg, Klavierkonzert K.271 (Mozart)
10/2018 Assistent and Korrepetitor, Oreste (Händel)
11/2018 Assistent and Korrepetitor, Eugen Onegin (Tschaikowski)
01/2019 Assistent und Korrepetitor, Phädra (Britten)
02/2019 Musical Leading, Theseus (Milhaud)
10/2020 Teaching Assistant for the conducting class of Church Music at the Kunstuniversität Graz

Scholarship
Deutschland-Stipendium, Hamburg
Brahms-Stipendium, Hamburg
Stipendium - Gesellschaft der Freunde der Kunstuniversität Graz