Born in Tokyo, Takafumi Mori began playing piano at the age of 8. After completing his bachelor's degree with Katsumi Ueda at Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) he continued his studies with Mikhail Olenev at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

As a Huygens Scholarship Programme recipient he gained his master's degree at Rotterdam CODARTS conservatory under Aquiles Delle Vigne, graduating with the highest mark.

Takafumi has given concerts in Japan, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Poland, Russia and the United States, and has been broadcast as soloist on Holland's Radio4 and Portugal's Anttena2.

He has participated in master classes with such distinguished pianists as Bela Siki, Lazlo Simon, Seymour Bernstein, Ferenc Kerek, Victor Lyadov, Pavel Nersessian, Aleksey Nasedkin, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Gabriel Kwok, Olivier Gardon, Enrico Pace, Emanuel Krasovsky and Ronan O'hora.

He has won a number of awards at national competitions, included two first prizes. He was also awarded the Special Composer's prize at the International Russian Music Competition (USA), third prize at the 2nd International Baltic Piano Competition (Poland) and third prize at the IV Panama International Piano Competition - the first Japanese pianist to win an award there.

As a chamber musician he was invited to participate in the International Chamber Music Festival, and has given many concerts and received several prizes at other international competitions.

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