Kanae Piano Channel / Канаэ

Born in 2002, Kanae Maeda began piano studies at the age of three with Prof. Elena Ashkenazy. In 2016, she received a scholarship to the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, studying with Prof. Matti Raekallio and Prof. Elena Tatulian. At sixteen, she was admitted to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Prof. Vladimir Tropp (piano), Prof. Tigran Alikhanov and Mikhail Olenev (chamber music), and Prof. Svetlana Bondarenko (accompaniment). She graduated in 2025 with a Red Diploma (Highest Distinction) and entered the Graduate Program as top student under the Russian Government Scholarship.

She has won First Prizes at the 23rd Petrov Piano Competition (2014), London International Music Competition (2015), Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition (2017), French-Japanese Cultural Association Piano Competition (2020), St. Petersburg International Piano Competition (2022), Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition, and Music in the Vineyards Competition in Serbia (2024).