Born in Tokyo, Gen Tomuro inhabits multiple worlds - Japanese, French and English - as distinct ways of being and expressing. A life spent between Tokyo, San Francisco, Boston, Paris and London — performing as a soloist and chamber musician in distinguished concert halls across Japan, the Americas, and Europe.

Gen first discovered the piano as a child, captivated by the sound of his grandmother playing. From the age of six, he taught himself by ear, listening intently to recordings, until at nine he asked his mother to find him a teacher. His first lessons were at the preparatory division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Later on, he studied under the acclaimed Wha-Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory of Music during his years at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, becoming her youngest student. It was Byun who laid the foundations: discipline, phrasing, the grammar of music itself.

In 2006, a defining encounter with the legendary French pianist and conductor Philippe Entremont drew him to Paris, where he became Entremont's sole apprentice. The greatest influence of all —learning not merely repertoire, but how to speak music, and above all how to speak French music. The journey continued under Professor Colin Stone at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he earned a Master of Arts with Distinction. It was Stone who gathered the threads of a life in music, turning accumulated experience into reflection, and reflection into voice.

From distinguished concert halls across Japan, the Americas, and Europe, a performing life that has unfolded alongside some of the finest ensembles of our time: the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Festival Orchestra of Santo Domingo, the Orchestre de Paris, the Palm Beach Symphony, the Teatro Giglio Orchestra, the Casco Phil Chamber Orchestra of Belgium, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and others.

Regularly invited to perform at museums and cultural institutions across the world, he conceives programmes that place music in genuine dialogue with the visual arts, not concerts with decoration added, but acts of curation: French music paired with works by Le Corbusier; evocative repertoireset against Eastern classical scrolls and paravent screens. The stage, for him, is not separate from the museum, the library, or the archive; it is continuous with them.