Director and Specially Appointed Professor of Kunitachi College of Music, Visiting Professor of Soai University, Director of “Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet”
After attending Kunitachi College of Music, completed graduate school at Northwestern University.

He won prizes at the 51st Japanese Music Competition and the 39th Geneva International Music Competition. In 1984, he made his recital debut.

In 2016, he was a visiting professor at Indiana University on Professor Otis Murphy's sabbatical leave.

In 2017, he performed Debussy's "Rhapsody'' with the Kunitachi College of Music Orchestra conducted by Jun Märkl.

In 2018, they were invited to the North American Saxophone Council as part of the "Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet'' to perform and give a master class.

In 2020, he performed Tomasi's “Ballad” with the Osaka Philharmonic conducted by Masahiko Enkoji. He joyned Valery Gergiev's Vienna Philharmonic on their Japan tour as a saxophonist. His solo CD "Tone Studies'' was nominated for the 56th Recording Academy Awards in Japan.

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