Mina Kusumoto, Piano

A native of Japan, Ms. Kusumoto began studying ear training at the age of three and the piano at the age of six. She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree at Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo where she studied with Yuriko Moriyama and Konstantin Ganev who was a pupil of legendary piano teacher Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow Conservatoire. Mina Kusumoto was awarded the highest distinction in her graduation class, and was chosen to perform her graduation piano recital. And then, she has given recitals each season in many prestigious world wide venues, such as Kennedy Center in D.C., Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Yamaha Salon in New York, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Hall, Minatomirai Hall in Japan, Oxford Town Hall, and Jacqueline De Prez Memorial Hall in the United Kingdom.

Ms. Kusumoto was invited in various music festivals, including the 100 pianists at the Kennedy Center under Maestro Leonard Slatkin, the International Summer School in Tokyo, and the Oxford Piano Festival in the U.K. Since 1994, she has also constantly performed as an active collaborative pianist in numerous concert tours with singers, instrumentalists, and dancers in Japan and the U.S., and her recent CD release are sold with world wide, with the highest recommendation by the Ministry of Education of Japan. She also won many competitions such as the International Arts Federation Competition in Japan, the All Japan Soloist Competition in Japan, and the Artist International Competition in NY. In 2007, she gave a New York debut recital at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artist International Competition.

Ms. Kusumoto has been residing in New York City since 2003 under the tutelage of Marc Silverman. She has been coached chamber music by Alan Kay, and her other teachers include Masako Matsunaga, Etsuko Takeuchi, Julia Ganeva, and Martin Canin from the Juilliard School.

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