Mao Fujita is a 24-year-old Japanese pianist. He began piano lessons at the age of three and attended the Tokyo College of Music. Mao came to the international music community’s attention when he won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland at just 17 years old. Since then, he has performed at festivals and with orchestras all over the world. In 2021, Mao signed an exclusive multi-album deal with the recording label Sony Classical International. During this partnership Mao will explore many different facets of the classical music repertoire, starting with a recording of Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas. Mao has a rare talent for Mozart and will be performing an all-Mozart sonata program for his Canadian debut with the VRS.
We've put Mao's recordings into one playlist for easy listening. You can even listen to his full album of Mozart sonatas to get prepared for his upcoming VRS performance!
Check out this wonderful mini-documentary about Mao, which follows him in the recording studio as he works on creating his album of Mozart sonatas for Sony Classical.
Watch Mao give the performance that won him a place in the finals of the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019. He plays a stirring rendition of Frederic Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58.
