Matsuzawa is a pupil of Akiko Iguchi and Hiroshi Tamura at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
[3] This plagiarised recording was hailed by the critic Ateş Orga as …an extraordinary feat, poetically strong and frequently electrifying.
Here we have an artist at full throttle, high on adrenalin, technique gleaming, commanding a Rolls-Royce of an instrument firing on all cylinders..[4] Reviewing the original recordings for the magazine Gramophone, Harriet Smith summed them up as a very impressive achievement.
[5] In his 2023 review for Gramophone of the best recordings of Chopin's etudes, the critic Jed Distler wrote, "As for Matsuzawa, what’s not to love?
You’ve got perfect fingerwork, fluent phrasing, impeccable timing, imaginative pedalling and discreetly novel voicings.