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| Sumire Kudo |
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Sumire Kudo, Cello |
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| Photo © 2006 Chris Lee |
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Sumire Kudo is one of the most exciting emerging stars of the next generation of classical musicians. Having begun studying the cello with her father at the age of four, she graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music and went on to study with Harvey Shapiro at the Juilliard School in New York in 2000. By this time, Ms. Kudo had already received numerous accolades including first prize at the 1992 Sapporo Junior Cello Competition and second prize at the 62nd Japan Music Competition in 1993. With performances such as at the opening concert of the Casals Hall's Cello Recital Series in Tokyo, she has received much praise for the “god-sent musical spirit that she shares unabashedly with the audience,” and firmly established herself as an artist to with a record deal and numerous concert engagements.
Ms. Kudo is a popular guest at music festivals all over the world and has performed at the Aspen Music Festival Music Festival, the Nagano-Aspen, the Miyazaki Music Festival, Music@Menlo Festival and the Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Since 1995 she has regularly appeared at the Sante Fe Festival, SummerFest La Jolla and after her initial success at the Marlboro Festival in 1999, she was re-invited for subsequent seasons including the prestigious Musicians from Marlboro tours.
A dedicated chamber music musician, Sumire Kudo is the cellist of the Avalon String Quartet, which is hailed itself as one of the leading chamber ensembles in the U.S. and has earned international acclaim for the bold musicality and passionate intensity of its performances. The group has been quartet-in-residence at Indiana University South Bend since 2004, after serving as assistants to the Juilliard String Quartet for two years at the Juilliard School.
In addition to performing in recitals and chamber music performances throughout Asia and the U.S., she appears in solo performances with all the major Japanese orchestra including the New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony orchestra, Kyoto Philharmonic Orchestra, Okayama Symphony Orchestra and Nagoya Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Kudo's second CD "Love of Beauty" was released in 2001 by the Philips Label and chosen as the ‘Best Recording Award' by Record Geijutsu magazine in Japan.
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