Osamu Kanazawa (piano)

Born in 1959, he studied with a pianist Meiko Miyazawa from 1970-74. In the following year, he began studying composition auto didactically in France and also a research on variety of composers. He won 2nd prize in La Rochelle International Piano Competition in 1979, and in 1st Japan Contemporary Music Competition in 1985, he won a prize of encouragement by the chief jury (Takahiro Sonoda, pianist). He has released CDs including Alkan (8 volumes).