Biography
Megumi Fujita
Japanese pianist, born in New Zealand as a daughter of a Japanese Diplomat.
She started to study piano at the age of five in Japan. From 1975, she studied with John Chagy in Atlanta, USA where she performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and was featured in the Newsweek Magazine. In 1977 the family moved to Baghdad, Iraq where she continued her studies with the Russian pianist Agnes Basheer.
In 1979 she joined the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrrey to study with Simon Nicholls, Louis Kentner and Vlado Perlemuter. At 19, she was selected as a post-graduate student at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv University and studied with Irina Zaritskaya winning First Prize in the Piano Competition at the Academy the same year. She continued her post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya, winning the Hopkinson Gold Medal in 1986.
Megumi has since won numerous prizes including 3rd Prize at the International Bosendorfer Competition, Belgium, 4th Prize Montreal International Piano Competition and 2nd Prize PTNA Piano Competition, Japan. She has also received a Commemorative Medal from the F.Chopin Scholarship Fund Committee, Poland. Megumi has performed numerous concertos and recitals throughout the world, and has broadcast on radios including the BBC Radio 3, Japan NHK FM radio, Canadian Radio, Moroccan national radio, and the Romanian national TV and radio.
She started to study piano at the age of five in Japan. From 1975, she studied with John Chagy in Atlanta, USA where she performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and was featured in the Newsweek Magazine. In 1977 the family moved to Baghdad, Iraq where she continued her studies with the Russian pianist Agnes Basheer.
In 1979 she joined the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrrey to study with Simon Nicholls, Louis Kentner and Vlado Perlemuter. At 19, she was selected as a post-graduate student at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv University and studied with Irina Zaritskaya winning First Prize in the Piano Competition at the Academy the same year. She continued her post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya, winning the Hopkinson Gold Medal in 1986.
Megumi has since won numerous prizes including 3rd Prize at the International Bosendorfer Competition, Belgium, 4th Prize Montreal International Piano Competition and 2nd Prize PTNA Piano Competition, Japan. She has also received a Commemorative Medal from the F.Chopin Scholarship Fund Committee, Poland. Megumi has performed numerous concertos and recitals throughout the world, and has broadcast on radios including the BBC Radio 3, Japan NHK FM radio, Canadian Radio, Moroccan national radio, and the Romanian national TV and radio.