Biography

Akito Tani was born in 2003 in Japan. Currently he studies under Okamoto Michiko, Suzuki Hironao and Nagano Eiko and is a first grade scholarship student at Toho Gakuen School of Music.

He’s a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensiv weeks and activities offered by the academy. 

Akito won several prizes at national and international competitions. Among others, he won the 1^st prize as well as the Iwatani, Nomura, Iguchi, Kawai, Miyake and Argerich Arts Foundation Prizes at the “90^th Music Competition of Japan”, the 2^nd prize (no 1^st prize winner) and the audience prize in the piano division at the “18^th Tokyo Music Competition”, the “Superior Grade Bronze Prize” at the “44^th PTNA Piano Competition”, the “Kitakyushu Citizens' Culture Awards Encouragement Prize”, the 1^st prize at the “1^st International Tchaikovsky Online Piano Competition for Young Musicians”, the 1^st prize at the “17^th Czech Music Competition in Japan” and the “6^th Arion Toho Music Award”. He won the special prize at the “20^th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition” and with the recommendation of the late Nakamura Hiroko, Akito performed in a TV program Untitled Concert. He also received the “38^th Kirishima International Music Festival Award”, the “Tsutsumi Tsuyoshi Music Director Prize”, the 1^st prize and the “Moonlight prize” as the youngest laureate at the “21^st Hupfer Tosu Piano Concours”. 

Akito performed in the Toppan Hall Lunch Time Concert Vol. 97 and Vol. 101 as well as with many orchestras including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Geidai Philharmonia Orchestra, the Kitakyushu Grand Philharmony Orchestra and the Korean Symphony Orchestra. 

In 2021, Aktio received the Rohm Music Foundation scholarship.