Kenzo Mesa, an 11-year-old Japanese-American from San Francisco, California, USA, has been playing piano since he was four and a half years old. Kenzo is currently enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) under the tutelage of Meikui Matsushima, and he is a scholarship recipient for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Kenzo took First Prize in the 2019 Best Mozart Performance, Second Prize in the 2019 Best Beethoven performance and Second Prize in the 2018 Best Schubert Performance at the Great Composers competition series. He has also been awarded Third Prize at the 2018 ENKOR international music competition.
Kenzo also studies chamber music, and in 2018 he received the Chamber Music Award at SFCM and Third Prize in chamber music as a piano duo in the 2020 ENKOR international music competition. He was selected to perform the “Juliken Piano Duo” at his conservatory’s Holiday Showcase in 2019.
Outside of piano Kenzo plays soccer as a midfielder for his club and school teams, and is an avid reader of history books on World War 2.
