Wataru Hisasue’s numerous accolades include a second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels 2025; the third prize and a special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work by Pascal Dusapin at the 66th ARD International Music Competition; the Liszt-Bartók Prize and the G. Henle Verlag‘s Beethoven Prize at the 2024 Concours Géza Anda; all three prizes at the Kyoto Aoyama Music Foundation Awards. He performs extensively as a recitalist and soloist in Japan, Korea and all over Europe, working with prominent orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, Musikkollegium Winterthur, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Collaborations with renowned conductors include Michael Francis, Mikhail Pletnev, Marc Albrecht, and Kazushi Ono. Scholarships from the Heiwado Foundation, the Rohm Music Foundation, the Deutsche Orchester Foundation, and the Carl Bechstein Foundation have supported his work. Wataru’s musical education was shaped by Kuniko Murakami and Yasuko Tasumi in Japan, Gilead Mishory at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Emmanuel Strosser at the Conservatoire national de Paris, and Pascal Devoyon and Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In October 2025 his latest album “Did it again”, featuring works by Pascal Dusapin, was released by GENUIN classics and the Bayerischer Rundfunk.