Biography

Yuya Mizuno was born in Japan in 1998. He started playing the cello at the age of six. He graduated from the Toho Gakuen Music High School at the top of the class and studied in the Soloist Diploma Course of the Toho Gakuen College on a scholarship under Sumiko Kurata and Dai Miyata. Since 2018, he has been studying at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music under Miklós Perényi.

Yuya receives a scholarship from the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive music weeks and activities that take place there. 

He received several awards in competitions held in Japan. He won the 1^st prize and the audience award in the “13^th Tokyo Music Competition” and in the “89^th Music Competition of Japan”. In 2017, he participated in the “Queen Elisabeth Competition” as the youngest candidate. In 2019, he participated in the “XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition” and in the “Mazzacurati Competition (Finalist). 

Yuya played the cello as a soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in famous music halls in Japan, such as the Suntory Hall and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. 

He is also on a scholarship from the Rohm Music Foundation and the Ezoe Memorial Foundation.