ABOUT MAYUMI KANAGAWA

Mayumi Kanagawa (1994) is a Berlin based, Japanese-American violinist praised for her rich, dark sound and focused, engaging musicality. She won 1st prize in the George Enescu International Competition in September 2024  and was a prizewinner at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and 2018 Long-Thibaud Crespin competition in Paris as well as First Prize winner of the Princess Astrid, Jascha Heifetz, and Irvin Klein competitions, she is establishing herself as a versatile and refined soloist and chamber musician.The 2023-24 season brought re-invitations from orchestras such as the NHK, Yomiuri, Tokyo Metropolitanand Sapporo Symphony Orchestras, with conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Marc Piollet, Sylvain Cambreling and Yoel Levi. 

 

Recital and chamber music concerts with colleagues including Giuseppe Guarerra, Ben Goldscheider, Yu Kosuge, and the Lazarus String Quartet bring her to Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg and Japan

 

She currently performs on the “Wilhelmj” Antonio Stradivarius violin from 1725, on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

 

ABOUT YU KOSUGE

Yu Kosuge has been giving recitals and performing with orchestras since early childhood. At the age of nine she made her debut with the Tokyo New City Orchestra. In 1993, she moved to Europe to continue her studies in Hannover and Salzburg and in recent years has received great support and inspiration from András Schiff. She is currently living in Berlin.

 

She has appeared at the most important venues in Berlin, Hamburg Köln, Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Washington and New York with conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Jun Märkl, Philippe Herreweghe, Gerd Albrecht, Lawrence Foster, Sakari Oramo, Christian Arming, Kazuki Yamada and Osmo Vänskä.

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Chamber music partners include Benedict Kloeckner,  Mayumi Kanagawa, Richard Stoltzman, Daishin Kashimoto, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Edicson Ruiz and Claudio Bohorquez.

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Her repertoire ranges from Bach to Schoenberg and Tan Dun.

 

SAMPLE PROGRAMMES

1.

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No.7

Chopin: Barcarolle Op. 62 (piano solo)

Interval

Ysaye: Sonata for Solo Violin No.4

de Falla: 7 Canciones populares Españolas

Poulenc: Sonata for violin and piano

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2.

Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano No. 35 

Chopin: Barcarolle Op. 62 (piano solo)

Interval

Ysaje: Sonata for Solo Violin No.4 in E Minor

Takemitsu: Distance de Fee for violin and piano

Franck: Sonata for violin and piano in A Major

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3.

Mozart:  Sonata for violin and piano No. 25

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No.7

Interval

Takemitsu: Distance de Fee for violin and piano

de Falla: 7 Canciones populares Españolas 

Poulenc: Sonata for violin and piano FP119