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Matsuda, Yu

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  • Last updated:April 2, 2025
  • Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

    Graduated from Toho Gakuen University after completing the Music Department of Toho Girls' High School. In 2010, she moved to Germany and completed the Master's program at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Cologne University of Music and Dance). She won the 15th Alois Kottmann Music Prize Competition and received awards in several other competitions, including the Carl Flesch Academy Encouragement Award.

    She performed as a member of the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra in the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Opera Project and the Saito Kinen Festival. She participated in the "Saito Kinen Chamber Music Study Session for Young People." In 2012, she held a concert at the Official Residence of the Consul General of Japan in Düsseldorf. In 2021, she performed as a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra at the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival. She is currently actively performing and teaching younger generations in Germany and Japan.

    She has studied violin under Ami Watanabe, Kumiko Eto, Kenji Kobayashi, and Susanna Yoko Henkel. Since 2015, she has been a violinist with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. For five years, she also served as Associate Principal and Acting Co-Principal.

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