Tokyo Music Competition
OGAWA Kyoko
Violin
Born in: Nara Prefecture, Japan
1st place, and Audience Award, String Section, The 10th Tokyo Music Competition 2012
Musical Careers
| Profile | Ogawa was born in 1992 and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts. She won the 1st prize and Audience Award at the 10th Tokyo Music Competition, the Career Development Awards at the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2016, the 3rd prize at the International chamber music competition Lyon, and the 1st prize at the 67th ARD Munich International Music Competition as Aoi Trio (Piano Trio). She has performed as a Soloist with Karajan akademie, Mutter’s Virtuosi (with Anne-Sophie MUTTER), the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and other orchestras. She participated in the Ozawa International Chamber Music Academy Okushiga and the Zermatt Music Festival and the Saito Kinen Orchestra. She has performed at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Musiktage Hitzacker, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musika Bayreuth, Brahms Tage in Baden-Baden, Torino, Brixen, Meran, and Raderbergkonzert in Cologne. As a Aoi Trio, Ogawa has released two recordings “Haydn No.27 and Schubert No.2” and “Beethoven No.1 and Mendelssohn No.2” which have attracted great critical acclaim. They received the Aoyama Music Award, Nippon Steel Music Award, and Hotel Okura Music Award. She has played as the Vorspieler in the Tokyo Philharmony Orchestra for one year. She studied at Karajan Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker until April 2021 and she played in Berliner Philharmoniker many time. Currently she is studying at Hochschule Musik und Theatre München with Prof.Dirk MOMMERTZ. She will work as a Solo principal Violinist of 2nd Violin in Sinfonieorchester Basel from August 2022. Official Website https://www.kyokoogawa-vn.com/ |
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Repertoire
Baroque to contemporary compositions; unaccompanied pieces, virtuoso pieces, sonatas, concertos.
I am working enthusiastically on piano trios and string quartets as well.