With an innate musical sensitivity and naturalness to his artistry, the young pianist Mao Fujita has already impressed many leading musicians as one of those special talents that come along only rarely, equally at home in Mozart as the major romantic repertoire. Born in Tokyo, Fujita was still studying at the Tokyo College of Music in 2017 when he took First Prize at the prestigious Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, along with the Audience Award, Prix Modern Times, and the Prix Coup de Coeur, which first brought him to the attention of the international music community. He was also the Silver Medalist at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow where his special musical qualities received exceptional attention from the jury of leading musicians as well as Valery Gergiev, who has invited him on a number of international tours since; in Tokyo in 2019, he jumped in at two days’ notice to perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev to rapturous acclaim. In November 2021, Fujita signed an exclusive multi-album deal with Sony Classical International. The new partnership will see Fujita explore many facets of the repertoire across several releases, starting with a studio recording of Mozart’s complete Piano Sonatas, released in Autumn 2022. Mao Fujita is moving to Berlin for further studies with Kirill Gerstein.