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Yosuke Kawasaki

Yosuke KawasakiYosuke Kawasaki currently serves as Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada, Principal Guest Concertmaster of the Century Orchestra Osaka, and Concertmaster of the Mito Chamber Orchestra and Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan.

Kawasaki was also Concertmaster of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra from 1999 to 2001. He has been guest soloist with Aspen Chamber Symphony, Greenwich Village Orchestra, Kyushu Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmonica de Lima, Singapore National Youth Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the four orchestras of which he is Concertmaster. He is a founding member of the D’Amici String Quartet along with world renowned musicians Federico Agostini, James Creitz and Sadao Harada giving critically acclaimed performances and masterclasses in Europe and Japan.  Mr. Kawasaki is also a founding member of Trio+, a piano trio with pianist Vadim Serebryany and cellist Wolfram Koessel.

His most recent recordings include chamber works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann on the TDK Core Label. He has also recorded Bach’s Double Concerto and the Complete Brandenburg Concertos with Walter van Hauwe and the Saito Kinen Chamber Players, both on the King Label.

Mr. Kawasaki began his violin studies at the age of six with his father Masao Kawasaki and continued with Setsu Goto. At the age of ten he was accepted into The Juilliard School Pre-College Division where he won the school-wide concerto competition. He then continued his education and graduated from The Juilliard School in 1998 under the tutorship of Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Felix Galimir and Joel Smirnoff.

 

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