Trombone
Born in: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1st place, Brass Section, The 1st Tokyo Music Competition 2003

Musical Study Experiences

1997 Graduated from the undergraduate music course of Senzoku Gakuen College of Music
2002 Completed studies at the Graduate School of Music of Senzoku Gakuen College of Music

Teachers

Studied under Sekine Goro, Kishina Kazumi, Jacques Mauger, Kamiya Satoshi and Miwa Sumio

Musical Careers

1994	In the second year at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music elected as soloist and performed concerto with an orchestra
1997	May: Performed as a university representative of her alma mater in the Yamaha Brass Debut Concert and the Yomiuri Newcomer Recital
2003	1st Place, Brass Section, the 1st Tokyo Music Competition
2004	January: Selected by Senzoku Gakuen College of Music members to play a concerto with the wind orchestra March: Performed a concerto with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in the Tokyo Music Competition Winners Concert
2006	June: Performed a concerto with Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Fanfare Band
2008	January: Performed a concerto with the New Japan Philharmonic in concert
Current	After serving as a contract musician and a special principal on contract at the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Fukawa currently serves as its principal trombone from 2015. She is a teacher at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and also teaches the orchestra club of Aoyama Gakuin Yokohama Eiwa High School. She has taught at Kita Kamakura Joshi Gakuen's music course from 2014 to 2016. In 2017, she contributed to "One point lesson" articles on the wind orchestra magazine "Band Journal." Fukawa will hold a recital in July 2021 at the Yokohama City Tsurumi Kumin Bunka Center Salvia Hall. (As of January 2021)

Repertoire

Concertos by David, Graefe, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grøndahl etc.
French small pieces by Bozza, Rousseau, Saint-Saëns, Guilmant etc. and classical sonatas by Handel, Marcello, Teleman etc.

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