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Concertmaster New Japan Philharmonic and bandmaster of Joe Hisaishi FutureBand. He studied under Akiko Tatsumi from an early age and completed the soloist diploma course at Toho Gakuen School of Music. He studied abroad in Switzerland under Tibor Varga, inheriting his method. He studied chamber music under Toru Yasunaga and Ayumi Ichino. In 2001, he was selected as the concertmaster of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and won the SPC Grand Prize, the Midori no Kaze Music Award with the Sereno String Quartet, and the Matsuo Music Grant. In 2005, he became the concertmaster of the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and performed as a soloist with orchestras both in Japan and abroad under the baton of Christian Arming, Günter Pichler, Yuzo Toyama, Douglas Vostok, and Yutaka Sado. He has also been invited to perform chamber music with Mischa Maisky, Giuseppe Andaloro, and other orchestras, as well as at music festivals around the country. He has appeared as a guest concertmaster with the Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, she made a guest appearance with pianist Hiromi Uehara at the "Untitled Concert." She was the soloist for Joe Hisaishi 's "Chamber Symphony" on the 6-string electric violin, which was the world premiere. In 2020 and 2021, she appeared at "Save Live Music Returns" at Blue Note Tokyo as a member of the Hiromi Piano Quintet. She also appeared at the Fuji Rock Festival and toured nationwide. She has a large discography, all of which have been well received.

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