Dr Kenji Fujimura is multi-award-winning musician, with accolades as pianist include winning the Australian National Piano Award, MusicWeb International Recording of the Year and Limelight Chamber Music Recording of the Year awards, and as composer the William Lincer Foundation Prize and Singapore Asian Composers Festival Award. His compositions are distributed by Universal Edition (Vienna).
Kenji’s formative music studies were undertaken in Japan and Australia. Completing the four-year Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree in two years at The University of Melbourne he subsequently pursued Master’s and Doctoral performance studies in Melbourne and London, winning prizes and accolades as pianist, fortepianist, and chamber musician.
A highly respected pedagogue, Kenji’s tertiary teaching career began whilst still an undergraduate. Kenji currently holds numerous roles including IAMUSICA (Executive Director), Trio Anima Mundi (Founder), Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, and maintains an exclusive private teaching studio. He also examines for the AMEB and is Patron of the Association of Eisteddfod Societies of Australia.
In 2015 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, for his ‘significant contribution to the music profession’.
