Sorita Kyōhei

Born in Tokyo in 1994. In 2012, won first place in the piano section at the Japan Music Competition and in 2014 traveled to Russia to study at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. While building up a track record of performances in Japan and other countries, since 2017 he has studied under Piotr Paleczny at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2020 he made his debut at the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna. In 2021 he won second place at the Chopin Competition, the first Japanese pianist to finish that high since Uchida Mitsuko 51 years earlier. He is also the leader of the Japan National Orchestra, which he established together with several other young performers.