Dr Kenji Fujimura
BMus Hons, MMus (Melbourne), PhD (Monash)
Lecturer in Piano Performance, Honours Coordinator
Email: Kenji Fujimura@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9905 9857
Fax: (03) 9905 3241
Location: Room 210, Performing Arts Centre, Building 68, Clayton Campus
Biography
Kenji Fujimura is the recipient of numerous major prizes and scholarship, and has been broadcast on radio and television on many occasions, including BBC Radio 3, ABC-FM and TV, the MBS-FM network and Bravo! Canada. Having completed the four-year Bachelor of Music course with honours in two years, Kenji subsequently obtained a Master of Music degree from the University of Melbourne whilst simultaneously furthering his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he received accolades and awards as a pianist, fortepianist and chamber musician.
Following his return to Australia, Kenji has been sought after both as performer and pedagogue. During the seasons 2001-2003, Kenji was invited to give performances and masterclasses in Belgium, Canada, England, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, USA and Australia. The 2004 season included concert appearances at the International Double Reeds Society Conference, Symposium of the International Musicological Society, and the International Symposium on Music in France, during which he premiered numerous works.
In that same year he was also an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) with the assistance of an Australia Council grant. An avid supporter of both contemporary and lesser-known music, Kenji has given world premieres of works by Calvin Bowman, Brian Harnetty, Graham Hair and Stuart Greenbaum amongst others, and Australian premieres of music by Karen Tanaka, Robert Walker and Henri Busser.
Kenji has recently completed his PhD on the life and works of the English composer William Hurlstone (1876-1906), for which he completed a recording and an edition of Hurlstone’s piano music with the assistance of a PhD scholarship.
Apart from his performance, pedagogical, and research commitments, Kenji’s many hobbies include composition. Largely self-taught, Kenji’s first compositions to receive a public performance date from his secondary school years. His output since has included orchestral works, songs and chamber music. His abilities as a composer were most recently recognized when he won first prize at the 2005 William Lincer Foundation International Composition Competition in New York, USA. He was also selected as one of five composers to participate in the 2005 Symphony Australia Composers’ Workshop. His music will be performed by Orchestra Victoria and broadcast on ABC-FM in 2006.
Kenji has been Lecturer in Piano/Keyboard at the School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University since 2002, and is also an examiner for the Australian Music Examination Board.