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Born in Kyoto in 1995, started playing the violin at the age of seven.
In 2016, he won the Henrik Wieniawski International Violin Competition and the Special Jury Prize. In addition, he has won and won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Japan Music Competition, the Tokyo Music Competition, the David Oistrakh International Violin Competition, and the Kloster Schoenthal International Violin Competition. Received the 25th Idemitsu Music Award in 2015 and the 25th Aoyama Music Newcomer Award in 2016.
Starting with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra at the age of 12, he has performed with the Orchester de Paris, the Orchester National de France, the Orchester Philharmonie de Radio France, the Orchester National de Paris, the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg National Academy Orchestra, and Stutt. He has performed with numerous orchestras in Japan and abroad, including the Togart Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 15, he gave his first recital and performed with pianists such as Kazune Shimizu, Akira Eguchi, and Haruko Ueda. In May 2021, he released his first concerto album "Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos" from Octavia Records.
He has studied under Chisako Okamoto, Yuko Iwatani, Machie Oguri, Yasuko Otani, Koichiro Harada, Mayuko Kamio, and Maxim Vengerov, and completed the Artist Diploma Course as a special scholarship student at Tokyo College of Music. He is currently studying at the Menuhin International Academy of Music as a scholarship student of the Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation. The instrument used is a Nicolo Amati made in 1678, on loan from the NPO Yellow Angel.