Tokyo Music Competition
FUKUDA Asako
Violin
Born in: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1st place, String Section, The 19th Tokyo Music Competition 2021
Musical Study Experiences
March 2015 Graduated from the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
March 2019 Graduated at top of class from Tokyo College of Music
March 2021 Received master's degree at top of class from the graduate school of Tokyo College of Music
2021 First-year doctoral student majoring in music at the graduate school of Tokyo College of Music as a special scholarship recipient
Teachers
Previously, studied under OGURI Machie, OHTANI Yasuko, HARADA Koichiro, FUJIWARA Hamao, and TAMAI Natsumi.
Musical Careers
| 2009 | 3rd Place, Violin Category, Middle School Division, the 63rd Student Music Concours of Japan |
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| 2015 | 2nd Place and Bach Prize, the 16th International Competition for Violin, Kloster Schöntal (Germany) |
| 2016 | Grand Prize, String Category, the 29th Newcomer Musicians Competition (Ichikawa City Cultural Promotion Foundation) |
| 2018 | 3rd Place, Violin Category, the 87th Music Competition of Japan |
| 2019 | 1st Place, String Category, the 18th Tokyo College of Music Competition |
| 2020 | 3rd Place, String Section, the 18th Tokyo Music Competition Season Member of the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo Fellow member of the 6th Class of the Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy |
| 2021 | 1st Place, String Section, the 19th Tokyo Music Competition Season Member of the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo Fellow member of the 6th Class of the Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy |
Further Activities
Performance history:
⁃ the 89th Yomiuri Debut Recital
⁃ the 30th Pacific Music Festival
⁃ recitals at Rokkatei's Fukinoto Hall/Makomanai Hall and Munetsugu Hall
⁃ performances with with the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist.
Grant history:
⁃ the Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation scholarship
⁃ the Aoyama Music Foundation scholarship
⁃ the Japan Federation of Musicians Scholarship for emerging artists to study in Japan supported by Munetsugu Angel Fund
⁃ the Moritani Scholarship Foundation
Fukuda has also been actively working on chamber music, participating in Project Q (educational project hosted by TV MAN UNION in Japan) and projects organized by Music Dialogue.
There are numerous recitals including solo stages in which she has performed.
Repertoire
I have been extensively studying concertos, sonatas, virtuoso pieces, and chamber music from Baroque to contemporary. My concerto repertoire includes: Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Bartók. As to chamber music, I have been passionately challenging in various forms of ensemble including sonatas with piano, piano trio, violin duo, and quartet.