With an innate musical sensibility and naturalness in his art, 21-year-old pianist Mao Fujita has already impressed many great musicians as one of those special talents only rarely encountered, equally at home in Mozart as in the great 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 prize, the Prix Modern Times and the Prix Coup de Coeur, which brought him to the attention of the international music community for the first time. He was also a 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 from Valery Gergiev, who has since invited him on a series of international tours.

Fujita has been invited to appear in recital at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the Verbier Festival as Musician of the Academy, and in the New Generation series at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Orchestral highlights include his London debut with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra in 2019, and performances with top Japanese orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. In Tokyo in 2019, he jumped on two days' notice to perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev to enthusiastic acclaim.

Fujita's breathtaking performance at the Tchaikovsky Competition, in particular, has earned him invitations to the highest levels around the world, and the 2020/21 season will see him make his debut with the Munich Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestre under the baton of some of the world's most prestigious conductors such as Gergiev, Petrenko and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. In recital, Fujita appears at London's Wigmore Hall, Schloss Elmau and next summer's Verbier Festival, where he will perform the complete cycle of Mozart's piano sonatas. She will also make her debut at the Tsinandali and Riga-Jurmala Festivals in 2021.

Beginning piano lessons at the age of three, Fujita won his first international prize in 2010 at the World Classic in Taiwan, and has become a winner of 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 the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition (2016). Mao Fujita is currently studying in Berlin with Kirill Gerstein.