He has given master classes throughout the world, including the Guildhall School of Music in London, the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig, the Estonia Music Academy in Tallinn, the Toho Gakuen School of Music and the Kunitachi School of Music in Tokyo.
After graduating from Kurashiki's Seiryo Senior High School, he entered the composers' program at the Kunitachi College of Music; however, he left the college two years later without graduating because he felt he would not be able to study and compose music seriously at the same time.
He started playing piano at age five and studied at the Kunitachi College of Music, where he played in a quartet with Kazunori Takeda.
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