Keiko Kamada
KEIKO KAMADA, piano
Keiko Kamada was born in Tokyo/Japan in 2001. She began playing the piano at the age of two. She studied piano in Tokyo with renowned teachers such as Yukari Kawakami, Masahiro Kawakami, and Masako Honda.
In Austria, she studied piano at the Schubert Conservatory in Vienna with Sung Suk Kang. She attended master classes in Vienna with great piano professors such as Kurt Seibert and Stephan Möller.
Since 2020 she is a student of Nanako Pohl Tanaka. Since 2021 she has been studying piano with Prof. Lilya Zilberstein at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She also takes piano chamber music lessons there with Sibila Konstantinova. She has performed in Parksville/Canada, Brake/Germany and Vienna/Austria, among many other places around the world.
In August 2018, she was awarded the third prize and the Schubert Prize at the 10th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna. In December 2018, she placed fifth at the Dryad Piano Academy in Japan. In August 2022 she won the first prize at the 11th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna.
“I know Keiko Kamada since several years. She made a great development. With the first recording she wants to represent herself as artist with future and I wish her success on this way.”
Prof. Lilya Zilberstein, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
“She is very inquisitive, she pursues the music deeply and plays in a way that touches directly on the important aspects of what the music is trying to express. She has an extraordinary talent that others do not have.”
Nanako Pohl Tanaka, Former University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Lecturer
“The young Japanese pianist Keiko Kamada is a great talent! Her play is characterised by deep emotional sensitivity, based on a high degree of technical skill. The international jury had no doubt about assigning her the first prize at our competition. I wish her all success and a career adequate to her abilities!”
Stephan Möller, President of Vienna International Pianists
