BIOGRAPHY
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Marcel Tadokoro
Marcel Tadokoro was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He started to play the piano at the age of eight in Japan before studying in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (CNSMDP) and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional with Jean-François Heisser, Florent Boffard and Olivier Gardon. After completing his Master’s course at the CNSMDP, he pursued further studies under Rena Shereshevskaya on a scholarship at the École Normale de Musique de Paris ‘Alfred Cortot’. Tadokoro has won prestigious prizes at international competitions, such as the John Giordano Jury Chairman Discretionary Award at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Third Prize at the 20th Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition in the same year. He was also a finalist at the 2021 Concours musical international de Montréal. Tadokoro has performed concertos with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and Aichi Chamber Orchestra, among others. He has given recitals across Europe and Asia. He will globally release the CD « Complete Henselt’s Etudes » by Naxos label in June 2025.