Suzuki Manami

First Prize, Chamber Music Award and Audience Prize winner of the 12th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 2024
First Prize and Audience Award winner of the 92nd Music Competition of Japan 2023
Special Grand Prix and Audience Award winner of the 47th PTNA Piano Competition 2023
Born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in 2002. She started playing the piano at the age of four. After graduated from the music department of Osaka Prefectural Yuhigaoka High School, she graduated the Tokyo College of Music (Piano Performer Course) as a scholarship student. She is currently student at the Tokyo College of Music Graduate School Master Course as a special scholarship student. She won First Prize in the Hupfer Division of the 27th HUPFER Tosu Piano Competition. Fourth Prize in the piano division of the 32nd Takarazuka Vega Music Competition. Every year since 2020, she has appeared in the “Tokyo College of Music Piano Concert by Piano Performers Course Outstanding Students.” She participated in the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy 2023 and 2024.
In August 2023, she received the Special Grand Prix and Audience Award at the 47th PTNA Piano Competition, as well as the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award and the Steinway Award. In October of the same year, Suzuki won First Prize in the piano section of the 92nd Music Competition of Japan, the Iwatani Prize (audience award), Nomura Prize, Iguchi Prize, Kawai Prize, Miyake Prize, Argerich Arts Foundation Prize, and INPEX Prize. In November 2024, she won First Prize in the 12th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Chamber Music Award, Audience Prize, the Mayor of Sapporo Award, the Mayor of Warsaw Award.
She has studied with Inagaki Chikako, Sato Yoshiaki, Ishii Rie, Nakada Mizuho, Masao Kitsutaka, Masataka Takada and Ishii Katsunori.