ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Born in Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture, in 1985, Hayato

Ikegaya is a graduate of Shizuoka University. He began attending Yamaha music classes at age five, studying piano performance, music nomenclature, and other elements of music theory and composition. He took up the saxophone at age twelve.

Ikegaya has built an impressive record as a performing saxophonist. He participated in the 16th Hamamatsu

International Wind Instrument Academy and Festival seminar and was honored for excellent performance at the Premium Concert highlighting that event. Ikegaya has also peformed at the Eighth Virtuoso Concert and at the New Faces Concert of the Japan Saxophone Association.

Ikegaya’s saxophone teachers have included Shintaro Yabe and Atsuyasu

Kitayama, and he studied piano with Noriko Sugiyama and Mariko Nemoto. He has participated in saxophone masterclasses and lessons given by Hiroshi Hara, Yasuto Tanaka, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Nobuya Sugawa, Otis Murphy, Claude Delangle, and Fabrice Morietti and in piano masterclasses and lessons given by Mitsutaka Shiraishi.