Misora Ozaki

We congratulate Misora Ozaki on winning the Carl Bechstein Special Prize of the Wolf-Dieter Rühl Foundation, which we were once again able to award at this year’s ARD Music Competition. The prize includes a CD recording in Berlin in cooperation with the GENUIN label.

Misora Ozaki began playing the piano at the age of four. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 12 with the Polish Philharmonic Krakowska (Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns) and gave her first solo concert in Tokyo the following year. Since then, she has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Poland Philharmonia Krakowska, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent years, she has given concerts in Germany, Austria, England, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, and Japan.

She has won numerous competitions, including first prize and the audience prize at the 15th MozARTe International Piano Competition in Aachen (2019) and third prize and the Isang Yun Prize at the Orléans International Piano Competition in France (2024). She also received the Music Promotion Prize in Ingolstadt from the Concert Association. (2024). In 2022, she was selected to participate in Murray Perahia’s master class, organized by G. Henle Publishers in Munich. In the same year, she gave a solo concert at the publisher’s headquarters, performing Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.”

Misora Ozaki explores a wide range of repertoire from Baroque to contemporary music. Since 2018, she has been studying piano with Prof. Antti Siirala at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, and since 2023 she has also been studying fortepiano with Prof. Christine Schornsheim.

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