Murasaki Matsutani

Murasaki Matsutani is a ten years old pianist born in Tokyo. She studies the piano with Michael Berkovsky and composition with Eugene Astapov at the Taylor Academy at Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

She has won numerous awards in international competitions, including the inaugural 2023 Nashville International Chopin competition (under 10 yrs old), the 3rd 2023 Jeune Chopin international competition (under 12 yrs old) in Switzerland, and the 2025 Tianjin Juilliard piano festival concerto competition.

She was invited to play at the concerts in Lausanne in August 2023 where she had an honour to play alongside Martha Argerich on the same stage. She was invited to play all three movements of Mozart piano concerto as a featured soloist with Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.

When she grows up, she wants to be a pianist, a composer and a conductor, and her dream is to compose her own opera.