Q: It seems you have been busy with livestreaming on Instagram and concerts and haven’t taken a day off. Hayato Sumino surrounded by pianos on Dec. At the moment, a life as a pianist became realistic for the first time to me. I participated in the competition as one of such options. I was doing an internship at an entrepreneurial venture while taking a job in mind. Sumino: I felt horribly desperate about my future at the time. Q: You participated in a piano competition in Japan in August that year right before going to study abroad. At the time, I did not know anything about IRCAM, like it was an institution organized by Pierre Boulez under the sponsorship of the French government and it was where Ichiro Nodaira studied. Then my professor advised me to go to IRCAM if I was interested in sound. At the time, AI equaled image recognition, and there was nobody else but I who studied sound. Sumino: I belonged to a laboratory that handled general artificial intelligence. Q: When you were in graduate school, you went to study at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in France, which is at the cutting edge of contemporary music. Suffice to say that this is a key to have it both ways. I forget the time and stick with it to the end as long as I want to. When I want to play the piano, I play the piano all the time. I have just thoroughly focused on each accordingly from moment to moment. But actually I have never tried to do both well. Q: How did you manage to both play the piano and study? But more than that, I couldn’t picture myself going to a conservatory of music and practicing all day and doing nothing else. I feared that the piano would end up just being a hobby for me. I was taken with hard rock when I was in junior and senior high school and arranged (some songs), played on a piano and posted them on a video site. Because I liked math as much as music.īut certainly I felt a subtle sense of distance toward well-behaved classical music. Sumino: Because there were many things at the University of Tokyo that I wanted to do, too. Q: Why did you want to attend the University of Tokyo and not a more traditional conservatory of music? Hayato Sumino plays a piano at Rokko Gakuin in Kobe on Nov. So I felt I wanted to show my music on a big stage that was the Chopin competition. Various thoughts came to my mind, and I was very scared and became absolutely nervous.īut, at the same time, I am a person who is trying to make music that can be born because there is no barrier. I wasn’t sure if I should really play Chopin here. All the more because I have done various music other than classical music, elements that should not be mixed in might have mixed in with my music unknowingly, I wondered. Q: Looking back on the Chopin competition afresh, what kind of experience was it? A life that can live in various worlds is absolutely more interesting, isn’t it? People often say I am living “outside the box.” But I am just using common sense and moving among multiple worlds. But it became evident after the competition. Sumino: Actually, I had never thought that the road I had traveled was “not ordinary” until the Chopin competition. Do you ever feel lonely or tired in exchange for having this kind of freedom? Question: You are involved in every genre such as classical music, jazz and pop. In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Sumino reflected on his eventful 2021 and talked about the future. He played Chopin classics such as the “Minute Waltz,” and entertained junior and senior high students with an ad-lib medley of songs such as “Castle in the Sky” and “Merry Christmas, Mr. Upon his return to Japan after the Chopin competition, Sumino’s first gig was a lecture and performance at a school in Kobe. While training as a classical pianist, Sumino also was educated in the latest music information processing technology and artificial intelligence at a research institute in Paris. His musical arrangements posted across genres have attracted about 900,000 followers on YouTube. If Hayato Sumino were only a classical pianist, then reaching the third round of the prestigious 18th International Chopin Competition would be enough for him to rest on his laurels.īut Sumino, 26, is more in an age where he is up on the latest technology and has his own YouTube channel under the name of Cateen.Īlthough he did not win the Chopin competition in October, Sumino’s unique background made him stand out in the field of the world’s top pianists.
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