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"EEEdepth, sensitivity to formal structures and expressive subtlety."
"EEEended child prodigies."
The Washington Post Review
In June 2007, Japanese violinist Mayuko Kamio won the Gold Medal in the 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. During the 2007-2008 season, she appears as soloist with the Bavarian Staatsoper in Munich under Zubin Mehta, the Orchestre National dfIle de France under Jean Deroyer, the NHK Symphony under James Judd, the Tokyo Symphony under Naoto Otomo, and the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra under Okko Kamu, as well as recitals in both home and abroad including Carnegie Hall in NY.
Ms. Kamio made her concerto debut in Tokyo at the age of ten under the baton of Charles Dutoit, in a concert broadcast on NHK television. Since then, she has appeared as soloist with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich with Eliahu Inbal, the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart, and on tour with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Spivakov, the Prague Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, and appeared in Japan as soloist with the Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, NHK, Osaka, Sapporo and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras. As a winner of the 1998 Menuhin International Violin Competition, the youngest artist ever to win the award, Ms. Kamio performed with the Orchestra National de Lille with Lord Menuhin conducting. In May 2003, she made her New York concerto debut with the Orchestra of St. Lukefs, and recital debut at Lincoln Center in January 2005. These performances prompted the New York Times to call Ms. Kamio an gexciting young musicianh and ga radiant talent.h
Ms. Kamio was born in Osaka, Japan in 1986, and began to play the violin at the age of four. She worked with Koichiro Harada at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and studied in the U.S. with Dorothy Delay at the Aspen Music Festival and the pre-college division of The Juilliard School. She currently attends the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Zurich, where she works with Zakhar Bron. Her instrument is a 1727 Stradivarius, previously owned by violinist Joseph Joachim, on loan from Suntory Limited, Japan. |
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