USUKI Aoi × AZUMA Yusuke piano duo

Piano

Aoi Usuki×Yusuke Azuma piano duo

Aoi Usuki and Yusuke Azuma studied at Ueno Gakuen University in Japan. In 2017, they performed their first duo recital in Tokyo, and they have begun to play as a piano duo.
Both of them won many competitions as a soloist and actively performed in various concerts.
They like to pick up transcriptions from orchestral works and have an interest in collaboration with other arts genres.

Aoi Usuki

Born in 1997 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
From a young age, she received a wide range of musical education at YAMAHA Music School, including piano, electone, composition, and solfege.
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She won the 2nd prize in “The 62th All Tohoku piano competition”.

Yusuke Azuma

Yusuke Azuma was born in Tokyo(Japan). At the age of seven, he began the piano and sevral years later he learned also horn and organ. With the guidance of Prof. Takahiro Hoshino, he decided to become a musician at age of thirteen.
He studied at Ueno Gakuen University and graduated at the top of the class. While still in college, he was appearing many concerts including solo recitals, concerto with orchestra in Tokyo.
In 2019, He won the 1st prize in “The 4th Paderewski international competition in Farmington CT”(U.S). This result was appreciated in one of the important Japanese music journals “Chopin”. Furthermore he received several prize in Japan: “Beethoven international piano competition ASIA”(4th prize, special prize) and “Simoda international music competition”(2nd prize).
He also participated many masterclasses by great professors including Frenc Rados, Jacques Rouvier, and Paul Badura=skoda.