Asuka Sezaki

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Asuka Sezaki
Born1977 (age 46–47)
Kumamoto, Japan
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  • Violinist
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Asuka Sezaki (born 1977) [1] is a Japanese classical violinist who made an international career.

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Life

Born in Kumamoto, in the eponymous prefecture, Sezaki began to play the violin at age six. [2] She studied violin at the Tokyo University of the Arts where she graduated [1] as the head of her class. [2] She further studied violin at the Conservatoire de Paris, on a scholarship by the Cultural Agency of Japan, in the class of Régis Pasquier and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, and chamber music with Christian Ivaldi. [2] [3]

For her first recital, in 1992, she performed Paganini's Twenty-four caprices . She has been invited, in France, to the festivals of Bourgogne and Reims as well as to the Festival de musique de l'Orangerie de Sceaux. She has given recitals at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, [1] in Paris, the Royal Library of Belgium of Brussels, England, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary and the United States.

Sezaki has played with violinists Kantorow and Pasquier, cellists Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Noboru Kamimura, pianists Jean-Claude Pennetier and Katsumi Ueda, Akiyoshi Sako, Hiroyuki Iwai, Ken'ichirō Kobayashi, Naoto Ōtomo and Jun'ichi Hirokami, [2] as well as with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Poznań Philharmonic, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Bretagne and the Ensemble Camerata de Bourgogne. [2]

Thanks to her first prize won at the Concours Stradivarius de la Bourse Forval, Sezaki was able to play for two years on the 1697 Rainville Stradivarius, an instrument received on loan by this foundation. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Asuka Sezaki". wieniawski.com. 2005. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Asuka SEZAKI – Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra". Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  3. ↑ Invitation de la violoniste Asuka Sezaki (18 March 2011)
  4. 1 2 "Biographie". Asuka Sezagi (in French). 3 May 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "3. INTERNATIONALER VIOLINWETTBEWERB LEOPOLD MOZART 1995". Leopold-Mozart-Kuratorium e.V. (in German). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Concours international "Premio Trio di Trieste" 2016". Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine. February 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Asuka Sezaki". Naxos Records . Retrieved 26 February 2021.
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