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Biography
TOMOKO AKASAKA
Viola
Tomoko Akasaka started playing the Violin at the age of 5 and entered the
high school of the Toho conservatory of music at the age of 15.
After graduating from here she completed studies at the Liszt Academy in
Hungary. On her return to Japan she transferred to Viola and entered the
Diploma course of the Toho Conservatory
which she completed at the age of 21. Currently she is studying with Nobuko
Imai for whom she works for as an assistant professor at the
Geneva conservatory of music, as well as being a guest professor at the
conservatory of Neuchatel.
Tomoko Akasaka won the 1st prize at the 12th Japan classical music
competition and claimed the 3rd prize at the 53th Munich International music
competition.
Tomoko Akasaka has performed as a soloist and chamber musician
throughout Japan and Europe. As a soloist she has appeared with the
Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Munchener Kammerorchester, the
Filarmonica banatul timisoara, the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra,
Ensemble Contrechamps and the Japan Chamber orchestra under the baton
of conductors like Seiji Ozawa, Heiichiro Oyama, Rüdiger Bohn, Gheorghe
Costin, Olivier Cuendet and Günther Herbig.
She has recently given a widely acclaimed series of recitals in Japan,
Switzerland, France, Italy, and Germany amongst others. The Tokyo series
were broadcasted by the NHK-TV.
Her chamber music partners include Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Mann,
Christoph Poppen, Lukas Hagen, Daniel Hope, Heinz Holliger, Menahem
Pressler, Frans Helmerson, Charles Neidich, Maurice Bourgue, and Reiner
Honeck, at international music festivals such as the Lockenhaus music
Festival, the Saito-Kinen Festival, the Pablo Casals Festival, the Luzern
Festival, the Zagreb Chamber music festival, the Festival Amadeus, San
Francisco Musical days, and the Schubertiade etc.
In Europe she has performed at concert venues including the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Geneva Victoria Hall and Grand Théâtre , Konzerthaus
Berlin, Schloss Elmau,The Suntory Hall, and the Schloss Nymphenburg
Munich.
Her recent collaboration with the composer György Kurtág has had a
profound influence on her work as a musician.
Her future engagements include solo recitals and concertos in Japan and
Italy, and chamber music with such as Gary Hoffman, Raphael Oleg,Pascal
Moraguès,Pavel Gililov,David Grimal, Henri Demaquiett, Christoph Poppen,
Danjulo Ishizaka,Carolin Widmann, and others.
Ms Akasaka has been awarded the Rohm Music Foundation's special
scholarship of 2005 that lasts until the end of her studies.
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