Keito Saito Wins Global Music Awards Silver Medal for Solo Piano Album

Pianist and composer Keito Saito has received a Silver Medal at the US-based Global Music Awards. His solo piano album, '音手紙 - une lettre en melodie -', won in the Solo Piano category. Saito was the only winner in that division and the first Japanese artist to win it.

The album was recorded at DG CAMP AKIYA Yokosuka City, a studio in Kanagawa Prefecture. The facility is planned as an artist-in-residence studio continuing the legacy of the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Saito was its first recording artist.

He used a 1965 Hamburg Steinway & Sons D-274 piano, tuned to a pitch of 432Hz instead of the modern standard 440Hz. The album contains 15 tracks, including the previously unrecorded '星見草', the main theme for the film 'Sōzoku', and the boogie-woogie piece 'Boogie Woogie Noble'.

He is known as a boogie-woogie pianist and has performed in 13 countries, primarily in Europe. His work includes the duo 'Les Frères' with his brother and the unit 'Viano' with violinist Vasco Vassilev.

'音手紙 - une lettre en melodie -' was released on September 20, 2026, under Ypsilon International Ltd.

Source: PR Times via イプシロン・インターナショナル株式会社