Fumiaki Miura
Japan
Violin
About
Born in Tokyo, Fumiaki Miura starts his musical education with Tsugio Tokunaga at his hometown Conservatory before moving to Vienna to carry on his studies with Pavel Vernikov and Julian Rachlin. Since aged 16, Fumiaki is mentored and guided by Pinchas Zukerman. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the prestigious Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition, being the youngest winner ever.
Miura has performed with orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester, Prague Philharmonia, Mariinsky Theater, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, NAC Orchestra Ottawa, Utah Symphony, Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de Toulouse, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and hr-Sinfonieorchester, among others. In 2022 Miura served as Artist-in-Residence of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Fumiaki Miura plays under the baton of conductors such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Gustavo Dudamel, Pinchas Zukerman, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Jakub Hrůša, Vasily Petrenko, Stéphane Denève, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Thierry Fisher and Rafael Payaré.
Regular invitations to international music festivals include Miyazaki, Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein, Menton, and Menuhin Gstaad. Since 2018, he serves as artistic leader of ARK Classics, annual music festival at Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
His discography includes Prokofiev violin sonatas with the pianist Itamar Golan for Sony Japan, as well as Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Hannu Lintu released by Avex-Classics label.
Miura performs on the Guarneri del Gesu 1732 violin “Kaston” kindly loaned by Crystco Inc. and its CEO, Mr. Hikaru Shimura.
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