Kaoruko Arai Christmas Piano Recital

Kaoruko Arai

Grand Prize and Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education Prize at the 24th KOBE International Music Competition. She won the highest prize at the 13th Osaka International Music Competition. 4th Prize at the 24th Burkhardt International Music Competition. Selected for the 67th All Japan Student Music Competition, High School Division, Tokyo. Bronze Prize at the Young Artists Piano Competition. The 54th Steinway Youth Piano Competition in Berlin, Germany. First Prize at the Kawasaki City Children's Music Festival. IMA Encouragement Prize at the Ishikawa Music Academy. Performed as soloist and duo (Vn. Soga Kidokoro) in the "Bösendorfer Concert by Students Recommended by President Tokihiko Umezu of Toho Gakuen School of Music. Performed in "Steinway & Sons Tokyo Laila Concert". Performed in the Toho Students' Concert and the High School Graduation Concert, and premiered a contemporary music work in the "Composition Exhibition" organized by Toho Gakuen School of Music in 2020 and 2021. He holds a master's degree from Toho Gakuen School of Music, and was a special scholarship student of Tokuji Munetsugu at Toho Gakuen School of Music for the 2018-2019 academic year. He has studied piano under Seizo Higashi, Fujiko Yamada, and the late Minoru Nojima, and musicology under Minoru Nishihara. 2019-2021 Teaching Assistant at Toho Gakuen School of Music; his video performance of Mozart's Turkish March on his YouTube channel, Colon Studio, has over 15 million views. He is currently a third-year student in the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Music at Toho Gakuen School of Music. D. program, specializing in Messiaen studies.