Akira Oyauchi  大谷内 映

He began learning piano with Meinhard Prinz at the age of five and later studied with Maurizio Moretti, Toshihiro Kaneshige, and Gen Matsuyama. He is currently a pupil of Mami Hagiwara at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Besides piano, he has also studied composition and organ. He has taken part in masterclasses given by Kazimierz Gierżod, Jerzy Romaniuk, Krystian Tkaczewski, Kotaro Fukuma and others. He has won 1st prize and the Hyogo Governor’s award at the Takarazuka Vega Music Competition 2022, 2nd prize at the Osaka International Music Competition 2022, Silver prize at Pre Superior Grade at the PTNA Piano Competition 2022 etc. He has performed as a Solist with Japan Classical Music Orchestra and Tokyo International Association of Artists Orchestra. While studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he has been awarded grants by the Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation and Ataka Prize. In 2021, he gave a recital at Opera City in Tokyo.