Yusuke Kikuchi

3rd Prize piano 2006

Yusuke Kikuchi was born in 1977. After learning at the prestigious Toho-Gakuen Music School in Japan with Noriko Minagawa and Nobuyoshi Kato, he studied in France with Jacques Rouvier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he specialized in chamber music with Itamar Golan. He moved then to Hannover High School of Music, where he studied with Arie Vardi. Yusuke Kikuchi was the Prizewinner of many international competions – Maria Canals in Barcelone in 2000, Porto in 2003, Bonn Beethove in 2005, Geneva in 2006. He performed recitals in the most famous halls in Japan and in Europe. Since 2008 he has been being teacher at the Tokyo University.