Naruhiko Kawaguchi was born in Morioka and grew up in Yokohama, Japan. He is the prizewinner of the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments, the International Competition Musica Antiqua Bruges 2016, the 1st Rome Fortepiano International Competition (Premio Muzio Clementi ). He has performed fortepiano recitals in Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the “Chopin and his Europe” festival (Warsaw), Monteverdi Festival (Cremona), Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Goldberg Festival Gdansk and so on. With regards to concerto performance, he has played with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, {Oh!}Orkiestra Historyczna etc. He graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s degree in Early Music from Tokyo University of the Arts and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He studied fortepiano with Kikuko Ogura, and Richard Egarr, clavichord with Menno van Delft.