X international m. k. čiurlionis piano and organ competition
is planned for September 2027, Vilnius

Participant data

Keiichiro Ikebe has won the numerous competitions including the 4th prize in the III Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition in 2019, the Steinway Klassik-Förderpreis 2017 in Munich, the 1st prize and the L. van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata Prize in the XVII Hupfer Tosu Piano Competition in 2011. In 2021, he was selected as a semifinalist in the LXXI International Viotti Music Competition. He attended the masterclasses conducted by prof. Michael Schäfer, and received a Jury Award at the International Music Academy, Munich in the spring of 2016. He is actively performing as soloist and in the chamber music concerts in Germany and Japan, including the appearance with Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. K. Ikebe received bachelor's degree in piano performance at the Tokyo University of the Arts, master's degree and Meisterskurs degree at the the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

I ROUND

1. Johann Sebastian Bach | WTC Book 1: Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor · BWV 849
2. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · B flat minor · VL 169
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · D minor · VL 319
4. Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 15 (''Pastoral'') · D major · Op. 28
5. Sergei Rachmaninoff | "Études-tableaux" ("Этюды-картины") ("Etudes-Pictures"), Op. 39: Etude No. 1 · Allegro agitato · C minor · Op. 39/1

II ROUND

1. Frederic Chopin | Impromptu No. 1 · A flat major · Op. 29
2. Gabriel Fauré | Impromptu No. 3 · A flat major · Op. 34
3. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Prelude · F sharp major · VL 184
4. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | "Autumn" · VL 294
5. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | Fugue · B flat minor · VL 345
6. Alvidas Remesa | "Stigmatas". Five Miniatiures For Piano
7. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Variations sérieuses · D minor · Op. 54
8. Richard Wagner—Franz Liszt | Overture from the Opera "Tannhäuser" · E major · S. 442

III ROUND

1. Camille Saint-Saëns | Piano Concerto No. 2 · G minor · Op. 22