Year of birth: 1998
Place of birth: Kyoto
Educated in: Köln
Place of residence: Köln
(Plays in Munich)
Watch Rikako Tsujimoto performance.
S. Prokof'ev - Sarcasms, op. 17 S. Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux op. 33, no. 2 F. Chopin - Étude op. 10, no. 4
Rikako Tsujimoto graduated from Prof. Hiroshi Arimori at Tokyo University of the Arts, currently studying with Prof.Claudio Martínez Mehner at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and Prof. Massimiliano Ferrati at Conservatorio di Musica dall'Abaco Verona. She has won awards at several competitions, including the 1st prize and the audience award at the Premio Lamberto Brunelli 2024 in Italy, the 2nd prize at the Giulio Rospigliosi International Piano Competition "Premio Schumann 2022" in Italy, the 2nd prize at Warsaw Piano Grand Prix International Piano Competition in Poland, the 2nd prize at the Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Japan, the 3rd prize at the Chopin Asia International Piano Competition. She has performed with orchestra Concertante, Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Città di Grosseto and Orchestra regionale filarmonica Veneta ecc.
Due to health reasons the candidates Shotaro Nishimura and Zixi Chen could not participate in the GPP 2022. They received the possibility to participate in this edition.
Candidates who withdrew from the competition:
Bily Robert
Deng Yubo
Durliat Gabriel
Guo Yungyung
Han Wenfang
Lee Shinyoung
Martinelli Riccardo
Park Chaeyoung
Thomazinho Lucas
Wang Jiapeng