Kaito Kobayashi

Japan

Kaito

Born on 13 October 1995, he studied at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium with Maria João Pires and the City of Basel Music Academy with Claudio Martínez Mehner. He won second prize and the Yaltah Menuhin Award for the best chamber music performance in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021. In 2024 he came third in the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. Earlier in his career, he won first prize and the Haydn Prize in the Ettlingen International Piano Competition for Young Pianists (2010) and third prize in the Santa Cecilia International Competition (2018). He has performed with orchestras including the National Orchestra of Belgium, Liège Royal Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel and NHK Symphony Orchestra.

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