Kenichi
Kawabata

As a performer, as a recording artist. And to bring music back into the spaces between people.

I began piano at four and clarinet at twelve. After studies at Kyoto City University of Arts, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Mozarteum Salzburg, Vorarlberg, I completed a master's degree in classical recording at the Zurich University of the Arts, where I trained as a Tonmeister, with highest distinction. Now based in Feldkirch, Austria, I work as a performer, recording producer, and sound engineer across Europe. My long-term aim is to bring the 19th-century salon — that culture in which music lived directly between people — back into our present time.