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Yayoi Toda, Violin |
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Yayoi Toda began violin lessons at the age of four and received early recognition
in her native Japan winning the many prestigious competitions. She went
on to study in the music department of Tokyo's Toho Gakuen High School
and after graduating at the top of her class from Toho Gakuen School of
Music, proceeded to Europe for further studies at Amsterdam's Sweelinck
Music Academy. In 1993, she attracted attention from the international
music community when she won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International
Music Competition in Belgium and three years later, on receipt of the Delay
Scholarship, went to study at the Julliard School. Emminent instructors
with whom she has worked include Toshiya Eto, Herman Krebbers, Charles-André
Linale and Dorothy Delay.
The following years saw Ms. Toda divide her time between Europe and the
U.S., and after making her New York debut in 1997 to rave reviews, she
premièred Tristan Keuris' 2nd violin concerto, dedicated to her
by the composer, at the Concertgebouw, the live recording of which was
released as her first CD. In 1998, she gave first European tour with the
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and a year later, having graduated from the
Julliard School, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in a chamber music recital
entitled ‘Yayoi and Friends,' to great acclaim.
Yayoi Toda's busy performance schedule includes engagements with all the
major Japanese orchestras as well as performances with the Moscow Philharmonic,
Hague Residentie, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, New York and Prague
Chamber Orchestras, Swedish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Bonn-Beethovenhalle
Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Radio Chamber Orchestra
(Holland), Singapore Symphony and Noord-Nederlands Orchestras. She has
received much critical praise for her performances with artists including
Seiji Ozawa, Peter Eötvös, Yuri Simonov, Gary Bertini, Jean Fournet,
Kenichiro Kobayashi, Martha Argerich, Stanislav Bunin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow,
Alexander Schneider and Shlomo Mintz.
Recent concert performances include a re-invitation from the Hague Residentie Orchestra, performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with them prior to their Japan tour, a solo recital of J.S. Bach's complete works for unaccompanied violin at Fukushima International Music Festival and a tour with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Malaysia, Japan and Korea. Her performance of the Sibelius concerto with Taijiro Iimori and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in August 2005 received great praise. In demand as a recitalist, Ms. Toda she has recently played with pianist Frank Braley and given a highly successful recital tour with pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha or works by Enesco, Schubert and Beethoven.
Ms. Toda's recordings on the Ongaku-no-Tomo record label include a CD of
Enesco and Bach, Bach's Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas, and in 2004
she released her latest CD, a recording of the six solo violin sonatas
by Ysaÿe
Yayoi Toda plays on the 1694 Stradivarius “Sighicelli” loaned by Ono Group. In 1994, she was the recipient of the prestigious Idemitsu Music Award. Ms. Toda served on the jury for the 2005 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium.
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