Kosuke Matsuda

Kosuke Matsuda is a solo percussionist born in Nagasaki, Japan, who has performed throughout Asia and North America. He began his percussion studies with Yoko Yamagajo and since his first exposure to percussion at a young age, Matsuda has devoted his life to the art of solo performance. He graduated from Ueno Gakuen University in Tokyo with a Bachelor’s degree in Percussion Performance (2015) where he studied with Masahiro Okada. He studied with Kunihiko Komori and Koji Fukamachi at the Aichi University of Fine Art earning his Master’s degree in Percussion and graduating at the top of his class in the Wind and Percussion instrumental department in 2017. Matsuda performed as a soloist with Lancaster Symphony in 2019 and was also given the honor of certification in the Japanese Arts and Cultural Agency Training Program by the Japanese cultural government. He earned a Master’s degree and Artist Diploma at the Frost School of music, the University of Miami, where he studied with Svet Stoyanov and Matthew Strauss. Matsuda is about to start his first semester as a Doctor of Musical Arts student and Graduate Teaching Assistant under Steven Schick at the University of California San Diego in 2021 Fall.