Japanese composer Dai Fujikura moved to London when he was 15 years old, where he studied at the Trinity College of Music (Daryl Runswick), the Royal College of Music (Edwin Roxburgh), and King’s College London (George Benjamin). He has been awarded several prestigious prizes: first prize in the Serocki International Composers’ Competition (1998), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers’ Award (1998), second prize in the Toru Takemitsu Award (2003), the Royal Philharmonic Composition Prize (2004), and the Internationaler Wiener Composition Prize — the Claudio Abbado composition award — (2005).