Thanks to his innate musical sensitivity and interpretive naturalness, 24-year-old pianist Mao Fujita has already impressed many prominent musicians, distinguishing himself as one of those special talents who rarely show up. Born in Tokyo, Mao Fujita was still studying at the Tokyo Music College when, in 2017, he won First Prize at the prestigious Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, simultaneously also winning the Audience Prize, Prix Modern Times and Prix Coup de Coeur, an event that brought him to the attention of the international music community. In 2019, he was also a silver medalist at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where his special musical qualities received exceptional attention from the jury.

Highlights of Mao Fujita's 2023/24 season include tours with the Gewandhaus Orchestra (Andris Nelsons), Filarmonica della Scala Czech (Semyon Bychkov) andOrchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo (Kazuki Yamada), concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Sir John Eliot Gardiner), Filarmonica della Scala Israeli (Iván Fischer), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, as well as recitals at prestigious venues such as the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, among others.

Mao Fujita has made his debuts with such conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Marek Janowski, Andris Nelsons, Lahav Shani, Christoph Eschenbach, Vasily Petrenko, and Ryan Bancroft and with such ensembles as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, the Berlin DSO, theOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala of Israel, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Mao Fujita has performed for the Heidelberg Spring, the Ruhr KlavierFestival and on tour in Japan and China. He regularly performs solo and chamber music recitals for major halls and festivals in Europe and Asia, with renowned partners such as Renaud Capuçon, Antoine Tamestit, Kian Soltani, Zlatomir Fung, Marc Bouchkov, and Makoto Ozone, among others.

Mao Fujita records exclusively for Sony Classical International. In October 2022, his highly anticipated debut album, a studio recording of the complete Mozart Sonatas for piano , was released soon gaining unanimous acclaim for its 'transparent sound worlds' and vivid interpretation. Mao Fujita has since performed the entire cycle at the Verbier Festival, Wigmore Hall and major concert halls in Japan.

Mao Fujita began taking lessons at piano at the age of three and won his first international prize in 2010 at the World Classic in Taiwan, subsequently winning numerous national and international competitions such as the Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition in Vienna (2013), Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians (2015) and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition for Young Artists (2016).

Since 2022 Mao Fujita has lived in Berlin, where he has been continuing his studies with Kirill Gerstein.

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