English Profile

In 1989, Miyuji Kaneko was born to a Japanese father and a Hungarian mother.  At the age of 6, he moved to Hungary alone to study piano under Zsuzsa Cs. Nagy, the Hungary’s leading piano pedagogue, staying at his grand parents’ home to attend the Bartok Elementary School of Music.  He won the first prize at the Four Hands and Two Pianos Hungarian National Competition in 1997 and 2000, and the first prize at the Hungarian National Solo Piano Competition in the 9-to-11 age bracket in 2001.

In 2001 at the age of eleven, Miyuji got accepted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest skipping grades, where he studied under Professors Gabor Eckhardt, Gyongyi Kevehazi and Rita Wagner.  Having completed the Academy’s all special piano courses, Miyuji returned to Japan in 2006 at the age of sixteen.  He was admitted into the 2nd grade of the Tokyo College of Music High Scholl and studied under Kazune Shimizu, Akiyoshi Sako, and Katsuko Miura.

In 2009, Miyuji was chosen as a CHANEL Pygmalion Days ARTIST and gave recitals regularly at CHANEL Ginza Nexus Hall in Tokyo.
His debut album “Miyuji Plays Liszt” released in October 2010 was selected as the CD of the Month by the magazine “Record Art”.  He was awarded the 12th Hotel Okura Music Award in 2011.

Miyuji has performed with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, and Century Orchestra Osaka (presently Japan Century Symphony Orchestra) conducted by Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, and Kyoto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tatsuya Shimono.  Chosen as a soloist for the Europe tour of the Tokyo College of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jun-ichi Hirokami, he performed Liszt’s 2nd piano concerto in Munich and Vienna, which was well received.  Miyuji has also performed in Hungary, U.S.A., China, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Romania, The Czech Republic, Poland and others.

He is presently a student at the Tokyo College of Music in the 4th grade of the Piano Performance Course for Talented Students.  Miyuji is a 22-year-old up-and-coming pianist.
A Steinway Artist.

July 2005: Grand Prix at the Balassagyarmat International Music Festival, Hungary
October 2005: First prize at Konzerteum International Piano Competition, Greece
January 2006: First prize at USASU Schimmel International Piano Competition, U.S.A.
March 2008: 1st Great Prize at Bartok International Piano Competition, Hungary