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Monday 23 November 1.10pm
Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition presents Naoe Sasaki – piano section winner.
Online streaming
This concert will be streamed live on our YouTube channel at 1:10pm.
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Free admission | Donations welcome
Programme
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Artist Bio
Naoe Sasaki, born in 2000 in Munich to Japanese parents, grew up in a musical family. Aside from initial pianistic impulses from his mother, he did not receive regular piano instruction, but instead developed his pianistic skills largely in a self-taught manner.
In 2019, he began his piano studies with Prof. Thomas Böckheler at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, first as a pre-college student and from 2020 as a bachelor’s student. He successfully completed his Bachelor of Music in 2024 and has since been pursuing a Master’s degree in Piano Performance under Prof. Silke Avenhaus.
Naoe is a multiple prizewinner of the competition Jugend musiziert. In 2021, he received an award at the Clavis International Piano Competition. Since 2024, he has been a scholarship holder of Live Music Now Munich. Among his most recent achievements are the First Prize at the International Music Festival Vienna 2024 and the Second Prize at the “Sounds of the Land of Fire” International Music Competition 2025, organized by the Azerbaijani Cultural Center in Vienna.
In addition to numerous performances as a soloist and chamber musician, Naoe is an active member of the Pianistenclub Munich, where he regularly performs as a pianist. He is also active as a piano pedagogue and served as a juror for Jugend musiziert for the first time in January 2025.
Presented in association with Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition.
