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Date
19:00- Friday, January 21 2005Venue
Tokyo Metropolitan Art SpaceProgram
- Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin" Polonaise
- Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, op.82
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64
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Profile
MATSUYAMA Saeka
MATSUYAMA Saeka was born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan. She studied under ISHIKAWA Seiko and OGURI Machie until she moved to New York City where she currently resides. She has studied at The Juilliard School in New York City since 1990 and received her Bachelor's degree in 1999, and is currently pursuing her Master's degree there. Her former teachers include: Robert Chen, now concertmaster of Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Dorothy Delay; and Glenn Dicterow, present concertmaster of New York Philharmonic. She has been studying with Michael Gilbert, and since 2003, with Ronald Copes, 2nd violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet.
Her competition experience and success are impressive. In 2004, she won the First Place, as well as an Audience Prize at the Sendai International Music Competition in Japan. Subsequent prizes include: 2nd Prize at the Hannover International Violin Competition in 2003; Grand Prize at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Competition in 2000; 2nd Prize and the special Orchestra Prize at Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in 1999; 2nd Prize at the National Competition in Texas in 1998; and 2nd Prize and the Tchaikovsky Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 1995. She was given 1st Prize at the Juilliard Pre-College Competitions in 1998, 1995, and 1992.
At the Juilliard School, she has received three major awards. From 1994 to 1999, she was the Dora Ruth Memorial Scholarship holder; in 1999, she, was given the Senior Achievement Award as she graduated from the Pre-College Division of Juilliard; and in 2003, she won the Jean Doyle Loomis Scholarship.
At the age of 9, she began participating in reputable summer festivals, such as: Meadowmount, Aspen Music Festival, Encore - School for Strings, Schleswig-Holstein Music Academy in Germany where she served as a Concertmaster in 2000, and Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.
In 1999, her highly praised first live recording of Carl Nielsen Violin Concerto was released under Bridge Recordings.