Masaé Gimbayashi started classical piano at the age of 5.
After obtaining his Master's degree in human sciences (Bachelor of Arts degree, specialized in literature French) at the International Christian University in Japan, she obtained the Teaching Diploma of Piano unanimously with the congratulations of the jury at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris/Alfred Cortot
Very early attracted by literature and classical music and jazz, she seeks the path that crosses.
She is the winner of the First Prize of the Madeleine de Valmalete Competition unanimously with congratulations of the jury, the Belgian prize from the European Academy of Arts, the Asia International Excellence prize Music Concert (Japan), from the French state diploma piano teacher.
Perfected with Jay Gottlieb, former disciple of Nadia Boulanger and Robert Casadesus during more than 10 years. He says about her: “She has the ability to store and combine diverse cosmos and to make magic out of it. She is a true artist.”
Masaé performs in Europe and Japan, United States, invited to Festivals such as Normandy Impressionist, Albert Roussel Festival, Bray normand jazz festival, 150th anniversary of Franco- Japanese, 150th Yokohama Port Opening, Bell Towers Festival, Arts and Swing Festival, Festival Yokohama Nandemo Intermusica fes', Stone in Light Festival...
There are 6 albums released from Plaza Mayor Company Ltd. His album Sleepless Night was chosen for the broadcast on board ANA international. An album released in 2020 by Trio jazz Waziniak on Intrication.
Host of Jazzbox international radio, and also guest at Radio Luxambourg, FM Shonan, etc.
The press said:
“Dazzling concert - She wonderfully explores the variety and richness of the instrument. A pure happiness for the public who call her back again and again. (Le Dauphiné Libéré, France)»«A new phase of the music for the piano was shown (Chopin, Japan)»
“Brilliant sound, beautiful sounds like jewels emerge...(Ongaku Gendai, Japan)”
“It was a concert where she marked by her attitude, where it was not about a trendy approach but from a deep understanding, from his intense desire for music, through his sense of harmony Ravelienne or its Stravinskian development or its jazzy accents, its aspects of real time, silence in “In a landscape” by Cage, even evoking Satie.” (Musicanova, Japan)
Masaé Gimbayashi is a volcano of poetry and strolling between Chick Corea and Claude Debussy A whole world that invites itself under the fingers of this pianist from the Japanese shores to the French coasts. A guest Hirokazu Ishida, came to illuminate original compositions and new interpretations.
Masaé Gimbayashi -Bullhead is a Japanese pianist who settled in France more than twenty years ago. Daughter of the great haiku poet His influence is carried by the poetry and the music that go together. Masaé Gimbayashi with his latest album, is the outbreak of a Western promise by a syncretism bringing new concept rich with a consecration, the artist's career. The path taken by Masae is made of discretion, of mature choice, in an astonishing musical approach by its method, giving the desire to immerse itself in the life of the composers, in order to understand the senses of the works ....
Tout un Fujiyama d’emotion. Masaé Gimbayashi-Barbotte est une pianiste d’origine japonaise qui s’est installée en France, il y a plus de vingt ans. Fille du grand poète de Haïku son influence est portée par la poésie et la musique qui vont de pair.
1 – Theme Shakurada “Children’s songs – Chick Corea 7 – Mininmal Zen 15 – Bleu Tranquille 16 – Improvisions Total 26 Titles for performances and improvisations. Concerts
2023/4/30 Nagoya Doxy with Takarako Tomita, Hirokazu Ishida 19:00
2023/5/02 Yokohama Airegin 横浜何でも音楽祭 with Hirokazu Ishida 19:00
2023/5/06 Tokyo Takagi klavier Shoto salon 17:00
2023/5/13 Cuy-St-Fiacre, festival de Pierre en lumière
2023/6/10 Beauvais, le Tongaso with Hirokazu Ishida, trio Mamamiah 21:00
2023/6/17 Rouen, Piano with Hirokazu Ishida, trio Mamamiah 19:30
2023/7/02 Paris, Théâtre île Saint Louis with Hirokazu Ishida 15:00 invitée Maria Moreno