1985年生まれ。広島県出身15歳よりエレキギターを、16歳よりクラシックギターを始める。
様々なフィールドでの活動を行う《変弦自在》のギタリスト。 
作曲家との共同作業などによる新作初演や委嘱作品多数。 CD ”ORGANIC”MOTIONS” ～久留智之ギター作品集「風に聴く～田中聰ギター作品集」をリリース。 
第34回日本ギターコンクール最高位の他、第1回イーストエンド国際ギターコンクール、第45回クラシカルギターコンクールなど上位入賞。
2019年3月にニューヨークで開催された「日米新しい音楽の展望シリーズ」に招聘され、日本とアメリカの日米作曲家の新作でリサイタルを行う。 2019年より作曲活動を開始する。
2022年第2回ポルトガル国際ギター作曲コンクール入選及び特別賞、楽譜はAVA Musical Editionsより出版される。

2023年第4回バルセロナ国際ギター作曲コンクール"ミゲル・リョベート"3位入選。 近年はコンポーザーギタリストとして活動の幅を広げて、様々なギタリストに作品を演奏されている。 
2011年より三浦一馬キンテート、東京グランドソロイスツへ参加し、数々のコンサート出演している。
エリザベト音楽大学卒業。
ギターを長野文憲、徳武正和、佐藤紀雄の各氏に師事。趣味はロードバイク。

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Born in 1985. From Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Started playing electric guitar at the age of 15 and started playing classical guitar at the age of 16. He graduated from the Elisabeth University of Music.

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He has studied guitar under the late Fuminori Nagano, Masakazu Tokutake, and Norio Sato. He has won top prizes at the 34th Japan Guitar Competition, the 45th Classical Guitar Competition, the 1st East End International Guitar Competition, the 2nd Pan Pacific Contemporary Music Competition (solo division), and the 26th Japan Concerto Guitar Competition, etc. He is also a member of the Japan Guitar Society. He is a guitarist of the group “Free to Change Strings,” which performs in a variety of fields, from classical guitar to electric guitar, as well as his own compositions, with a focus on new music.

 

He has premiered many new works and has written many commissioned works.

 

He is also a member of the guitar and saxophone duo “Travessia” and the contemporary music guitar duo “Dialogue”.

 

In 2011, he joined Kazuma Miura Tango Quintet as an electric guitarist, and has participated in many tours and recordings. He is a member of the Tango Orchestra Tokyo Grand Soloists, which Kazuma Miura presides over.

 

In March 2019, he was invited to the JUMP “Japan-U.S. New Music Perspectives Series” in New York City, where he gave a recital with new works by Japanese and American composers, which was well received.

 

In April 2020, he released his first solo CD “ORGANIC ‘MOTIONS’ - Tomoyuki Kuru Guitar Works, which was selected as a recommended disc by Ongaku Gendai magazine.

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He is the artistic director of the Apoyando Guitar Festival.