Tokyo Music Competition
KONO Akari
Bassoon
Born in: Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
2nd place, Wind Section, The 21st Tokyo Music Competition 2023
Musical Study Experiences
March 2020 Graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Sagamihara Yaei High School (current Sagamihara-Yaei Senior High School)
April 2020 Enrolled in the Department of Instrumental Music, the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
2023 4th-year student at the Department of Instrumental Music, the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
Teachers
Studied bassoon under SAKAI Yuka, KAMIYAMA Jun, INOUE Toshitsugu, and OKAMOTO Masayuki. Took the class of David SEIDEL at the 29th Hamamatsu International Wind Instrument Academy and Festival. Studied chamber music under KAKIZAKI Kouzou, HIDAKA Takeshi, SAITO Yusuke, SATO Yuki, and FUKUSHI Mariko.
Musical Careers
| 2018 | 1st Place, the 1st Nihon Sogaku Competition 1st Place, Bassoon Category, K Music Competition 1st Place and Kawagoe Mayor Award, Wind Category, the 15th Japan Solo Competition for The Stringed, Wind, and Percussion Instruments |
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| 2019 | 2nd Place and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Award; the 21st Japan Junior Wind and Percussion Competition |
| 2022 | 2nd Place, the 2nd Bassoon Competition organized by the Japan Bassoon Society |
| 2023 | 2nd Place, Wind Section, the 21th Tokyo Music Competition |
Further Activities
Kono is a scholarship recipient of the Aoyama Music Foundation 2023.
In the same year, she performed Weber’s Bassoon Concerto with the Geidai Philharmonia Orchestra, Tokyo in the morning concert at Tokyo University of the Arts. She was also awarded the MIYATA Ryohei Scholarship in 2023 at the university.
Repertoire
Kono is studying works for solo, concerto, chamber music, and orchestra in a wide range of fields from baroque to contemporary music. In chamber music, she is skilled at wind trio, wind quintet, and bassoon ensemble.