About me

Born in Japan in 2001, Akira Oyauchi began his piano studies at the age of five with Meinhard Prinz and later with Maurizio Moretti, Toshihiro Kaneshige and Gen Matsuyama. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he received scholarships from the Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation and the Ataka Prize, and from the Schola Cantorum in Paris, in which In the first year he received the unanimous congratulations of the jury. He is currently a student of Konstantin Scherbakov at Zurich University of the Arts as Master Specialized Music Performance – Major Solistin oder Solist, and Masataka Goto, Fumiko Eguchi at Showa Music University as a scholarship student. In addition to piano, he also studied composition and organ. He has taken part in master classes with Kazimierz Gierzod, Pascal Devoyon, Krystian Tkaczewski, Kotaro Fukuma, Konstantin Scherbakov, etc. He has performed in Japan, Taiwan, Austria, Poland and Italy as a soloist with the Japan Classical Music Orchestra and the Tokyo International Association of Artists Orchestra. He is a prize-winner of more than 30 national and international competitions, including:

and a semi-finalist of numerous international competitions, including the 27th Scriabin International Piano Competition in Grosseto, the 29th International Piano Competition “Giulio Rospigliosi” – Schumann Prize in Pistoia, the 11th J.N. Hummel International Piano Competition in Bratislava, the 11th Giorgos Thymis International Piano Competition in Thessaloniki.