Japanese pianist Tomonori Murakami was born in 1999 in Ehime, Japan.
He received his first piano lessons at the age of five and studied piano with Prof. Kyoko Akiba and Prof. Shoichi Hase.
During his bachelor studies with Prof. Seizo Azuma at Tokyo University of the Arts, he received a scholarship from Tokuji Munetsugu for special talents and was awarded the Ariadne Musica Prize and the Douseikai Prize. After an audition, he was selected to perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Philharmonia Orchestra of Tokyo University of the Arts.

He was a prizewinner of the All Japan Student Music Competition and the Yasuko Fukuda Award Selection Committee. He was also a semi-finalist in the Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition and a semi-finalist in the Special Class of the PTNA Piano Competition. He has won prizes in numerous other competitions in Japan.

He has worked with Bruno-Leonardo Gelber in Japan and Argentina, which gave an important influence on his musical development.

Since 2023 he is studying at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and won the second prize at the Dr. Hermann Büttner Piano Competition.
In 2024 he became a scholarship holder of YEHUDI MENUHIN Live Music Now and being invited as a piano trio to the renowned Villecroze Music Academy in the class of Ralf Gothóni.
In December 2024 he played his German debut with Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Philharmonie Baden-Baden and Maestro Heiko Mathias Förster.

He has performed recitals, chamber music and radio recordings in various cities in Japan.

He is currently studying piano with Prof. Momo Kodama and chamber music with Prof. Momo Kodama, Prof. Christian Ostertag, Prof. Roberto Domingos, Mr. Andrej Jussow and Prof. László Fenyő.