Kaito Kobayashi
 
     
 

Born on the 13th October, 1995 in Yokohama, Japan.  15 years old.
I enjoyed singing as a member of the choir, Aoba Kids, from 3 to 12 years old.
I began my music studies in the Yamaha Music School at the age of 4, taking lessons in piano, composition, and general musicianship under Miho Iwatsuki.  Since 2008, I have been studying under the Yamaha Master Class.  And since 2011, I have been studying under the Ueno Gakuen highschool.

I performed Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 with the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra as a prize of the 23rd Kanagawa Music Competition in 2007.  In 2009, I won the first prize and the Kanagawa Governor Prize at the 25th Kanagawa Music Competition.  I also won the third prize at the 63rd All-Japan Students Music Competition (Junior high school class) in 2009.  In 2010, I won the first prize and the Haydn Prize at the 12th Ettlingen International competition for Young Pianists. (Category B, up to 20 years) I performed at Ettlingen and Eppan in February 2011.
I was chosen the 3 winner at Junior Academy Eppan. And I won the Special student prize. I performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 with the Tokyo Symphony  Orchestra at YAMAHA GALA CONCERT June 2011.

My teachers include Miwa Yuguchi, Tetsumichi Yoshinaga, Hiromi Okada, Yasutaka Goto, Haruhi Hata, Shun Sato, Vera Gornostaeva, Christopher Elton, Yukio Yokoyama, Kyoko Tabe, Hitomi Nishioka, and Akio Shimizu for general musicianship.