After graduating the Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1982, Masayuki Kino started his performance studies in London at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Yfrah Neaman. Following his graduation, he studied under maestros; Nathan Milstein, Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis. In 1984, he received the top prize and an Audience Award at the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in London and in 1985,  received the award for exceptional salon music at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition. In 1987, he gave a commemorative London performance after receiving the Royal Orchestra Society’s Silver Medal.

Since then, Kino has appeared with many worldwide orchestras starting with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has also made many other international appearances: On both the television and radios of the RTSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera di Lingua Italiana), BBC, Radio France and the NHK. He has also taken part in international music festivals such as the Sanremo Music Festival and the Aldeburgh Festival.

In Japan, after finishing his career as the Concertmaster for the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, he became the Concertmaster for the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in April 1993 and since July 2002, he plays as the Solo-Concertmaster for this Orchestra.

In 2001, his concert “Paganini” was broadcasted on the live broadband website of TV Asahi. In July 2003, he performed with musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Ruggiero Ricci and Martha Argerich at the Violin Festival in Cassis, France. He is also currently the Music Director for the Kumagawa Music Festival with Masayuki, since 2007.

Along with his numerous lectures at international venues around the world, he teaches at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Musashino Academia Musicae and the Tokyo College of Music.

His celebrated repertoire recordings with CD labels such as Octavia Records Inc. have all been rated as high standard works of art.

Kino currently plays the 1776 Lorenzo Storioni instrument that was given to him by his honorary teacher Ruggiero Ricci.