Keigo Mukawa

Keigo Mukawa was born in Aichi in Japan and trained under Frank Braley, Haruko Ueda, Théodore Paraskivesco, Susumu Aoyagi, and Yukio Yokoyama. After studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he won the First Prize at the Japan Music Competition in 2012. He went on to study at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In 2017, he was selected to take part in the Chanel Pygmalion Days in Tokyo, at which he played Maurice Ravel’s complete works for piano in a series of six recitals. He has performed with, among others, major orchestras in Tokyo and the Orchestre National de Lorraine and has performed in recital in France, Switzerland, Latvia, China, and Japan.

He has won many prizes at national and international competitions including 1st Prize at the 81st Japan Music Concours in 2012, 2nd Prize at the 25th Concours International de Piano d’Épinal in France, 2nd prize at the 18th International Piano Competition of Ile-de-France in 2016, 1st prize at the 5th Coop Music Awards Competition in Italy in 2017, 5th prize at the 10th hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan in 2018, 2nd prize at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in France in 2019, and 3rd prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 2021.