Pianist

The japanese pianist Hikaru Kanki took piano lessons from Motoko Toyoda, Kimiko Higuchi and Noriyuki Miyazawa. Since 2012 she has been studying at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media with Prof. Roland Krüger, where she completed her Bachelor and Master degree with the highest marks. Apart from her solo studies, Hikaru is also working with Prof. Jan Phillip Schulze for Lied Interpretation. Starting from 2019 she is studying her Soloklasse (Konzertexamen) for Piano Performance and Master of Lied Interpretation and had the honor to premiere Alfred Koerppen’s and Manfred Trojahn’s art songs in Hannover. Among other things she performed in Semperoper Dresden, sommerliche Musiktagen Hitzacker and Liederfest at HMTMH.

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She won the 1st prize at the International “Lia Tortora” Competition in Italy and both the 2nd Prize and audience prize at the International Bodensee Competition. She received prizes for the best pianist at the International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition (2018), Maritim Musikpreis (2018) and at the Wigmore Hall / Bollinger International Song Competition (2022). With Baritone Arvid Fagerfjäll she won the Eugène Pannebakker 1st prize and Rudolf-Jansen-Pianist prize at the International Vocal Competition LiedDuo s’-Hertogenbosch Liedduo (2021).

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She participated in several concerts and recitals in Japan, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Russia. She was invited by Animato to play at the Salle Cortot, Paris. At the age of 11 she gave her first performance as a soloist with the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra.

She attended numerous masterclasses given by for example Bernd Goetzke, Walter Blankenheim, Jean Fassina, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Matti Raekallio, Andrzej Jasinski, Piotr Paleczny, Anne Le Bozec, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, Ann Murray, Christianne Stotijn and Juliane Banse.

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Hikaru was a scholarship student of the “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Hannover e.V”, “Udo Reinemann international masterclass” and  Festival LIEDBasel 2022 and was also a recipient of a fellowship from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.

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Since 2020 she is a faculty member as a piano accompanist for Voice and Bassoon class at HMTM Hannover.

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