Tokyo Music Competition
TAHARA Ayako
Viola
Born in: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1st place, and Audience Award, String Section, The 11th Tokyo Music Competition 2013
Musical Careers
| Profile | Japanese violist TAHARA Ayako born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1994. She studied viola at Toho Gakuen High School of Music and Toho Gakuen College of Music with OKADA Nobuo and FUJIWARA Hamao. After graduated with honors from Toho Gakuen College, she is studying at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Bruno PASQUIER since 2016 and at Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Veit HERTENSTEIN since 2019. Won the first prize at the 10th Tokyo Music Competition with Audience Award and the 9th International Romania Music Competition with Romanian national radio station prize and the grand prix in 2013. This is the highest award through six categories. She has also participated in masterclasses with IMAI Nobuko, Antoine TAMESTIT, Tabea ZIMMERMAN, Gérard CAUSSÉ, Hartmut ROHDE, Diemut POPPEN, Máté SZŰCS, KAWASAKI Masao, and SASAKI Ryo. Tahara performed concertos as a soloist with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and many more. She appeared in the radio program NHK-FM “Recital Nova” and the TV program NHK-BS “Classical Music Club,” TV-ASAHI “Untitled Concert.” She got the scholarship from the Rohm Music Foundation, the Japan Foundation of Musicians, the Ezoe Memorial Foundation, and the Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation. Also Tahara has received Paolo Antonio Testore on loan from Suntory Foundation for Arts. Member of Aile String Quartet since 2011, La Luce String Octet since 2013 and Trio Rizzle since 2021. She received the 23rd Hotel Okura Music Award. |
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Repertoire
Baroque to contemporary; from unaccompanied pieces to sonatas to small pieces to concertos.
I have been actively working on various chamber ensemble forms, mainly string quartets.