Koki Fujimoto

Koki Fujimoto was born in Tokyo. He started studying the guitar at the age of three. By now he has been taught by Noboru Muraji, Tomonori Arai, Kiyoshi Shomura and Tsuneo Ema.

His CD titled "Guitar works by Toru Takemitsu", in memory of Toru Takemitsu, was released in 2016.
As a composer he took lessons from Miyuki Shiozaki, Sho Ueda and Sunao Isaji. He received conducting lessons from Masayuki Honda. Now he is studying at the Cologne University of Music under the guidance of Professor Ansgar Krause.
Koki has won numerous competitions having received the 1st prize at the International Guitar Competition Weikersheim (2008), the 1st prize in the Asia International Guitar Competition (Thailand, 2010), the 1st prize in the Asia International Guitar Competition (2010), the 1st prize at the Tokyo International Guitar Competition, the 1st prize the East End International Guitar Competition (2011), the 1st prize at the International Competition for the Guitar Ensembles (Japan) together with his duo partner Hiroshi Kogure (as Koki and Hiroshi, 2012), the 2nd prize at the Koblenz International Guitar Competition (2018) and the 1st prize at the International Guitar Competition Heinsberg (2019).