Mayaka Nakagawa
Japan Birthdate: 29.12.1993
Competitor number: 45
Born on 29 December 1993. She was taught by Koki Simizu at the Meiva Secondary School in Aichi (Japan) and is currently studying with Mari Takede and Hironao Suzuki at Tokyo College of Music. She has participated in masterclasses given by Andrey Pisarev and Vera Gornostaeva in Tokyo, Ishikawa, Hamamatsu and Tokyo, and also in a special Chopin masterclass given by Andrzej Jasiński. She also takes lessons from Aquiles delle Vigne. She has won the International Chopin Competition in Tokyo and in Ishikawa (2010). She has also won Third Prize in the piano competition run by her college (2012) and the bronze medal in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia (Tokyo, 2014). She was also runner-up in the Japanese Piano Teachers Association Competition in Tokyo (2014). She has given recitals in Nagoya and Kobe and played in charity concerts organised by Bösendorfer, Kawai and the Nippon Foundation. In 2014, she gave a concert with orchestra in Tokyo. Since May last year, she has been a Yamaha scholarship holder.