Born in Tokyo. Studied under Koko Shinozaki, Ryosaku Kubota, and Toshiya Eto.
After completing the Diploma Course at Toho Gakuen University, she received a Soviet government scholarship in 1988 to study at the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied under Valery Klimov and Sergei Girshenko. She graduated from the conservatory in 1994 with a Chief, continued her studies at its graduate school, and returned to Japan in 1997.
That same year, he was recognized as a “Seiji Ozawa” and was appointed concertmaster of the New Japan Philharmonic. He has served as the orchestra’s solo concertmaster since 2000. In 2009, he was appointed guest concertmaster of the Osaka Philharmonic Chief. He has served as the orchestra’s solo concertmaster since 2019. He currently maintains an extremely busy schedule as the solo concertmaster of both orchestras.
He enjoys the deep trust of conductors and frequently performs as a soloist with orchestras such as Seiji Ozawa, Christian Arming, Daniel Harding, Kazuhiro Koizumi, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Michiyoshi Inoue, Leon Fleisher, and Gerhard Bosse. He is the sole inheritor of the traditional Russian violin method in Japan and was praised by Rostropovich as “a wonderful violinist and artist.”
In December 2014, he held a duo recital with New Japan Philharmonic (No. 4) Music Director Toshiyuki Kamioka, which was met with great acclaim. In 2016, he received the 17th Hotel Okura Music Award. He is a visiting professor at Musashino Academy of Music. He plays a 1661 Nicola Amati (Grand Amati).