Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Shunske Sato
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Born in Tokyo in 1984, Shunske Sato
actively concertizes on both modern and baroque violin, and is one of
the most acclaimed and versatile musicians of his generation.
Shunske
began violin study at age two. Immigrating to America with his parents
two years later, he studied with Chin Kim before coming under the
tutelage of Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School of
New York. In 2003, Shunske moved to Paris to pursue his modern violin
studies with Gérard Poulet, and recently attained a Graduate Diploma
from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, Germany, where he
studied baroque violin under Mary Utiger.
As a baroque
violinist, Shunske is concertmaster of both Concerto Köln and the
Netherlands Bach Society, and has appeared as soloist with the
Orchestra Libera Classica in Japan, and Berliner Lautten Compagney. In
2011 he gave the first performance in recent times of Paganini’s second
violin concerto on historical instruments with the Academy of Ancient
Music. Shunske regularly plays chamber music with partners such as
Christine Schornsheim, Hidemi Suzuki and Richard Egarr.
On the
modern violin, Shunske has appeared as soloist with all the major
orchestras in Japan, as well as with leading European orchestras
including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian Radio Philharmonic,
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the State Symphony
Orchestra of Russia. Since his American debut with the Philadelphia
Orchestra at the age of 10, he has performed with renowned American
orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony
Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
Shunske gained further
recognition as a baroque violinist after winning second prize as well
as the audience prize at the 17th International Johann Sebastian Bach
Competition Leipzig in 2010. He is also the recipient of the awards
such as the Idemitsu Award (a distinction awarded to prominent,
internationally active Japanese musicians) and the S & R Washington
Award.
Shunske has a wide-ranging discography including of
Eugčne Ysa˙e's Six Sonatas for solo violin, Edvard Grieg’s complete
sonatas for violin and piano which was awarded the Grand Prize by the
Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and, most recently, Telemann’s 12
Fantasias for solo violin. In addition, Shunske is the first violinist
ever to record Niccolņ Paganini’s Twenty-Four Caprices for solo violin
(Universal Classics Japan label. 2009) from the perspective of
historically informed performance practice, using gut strings and an
historical bow.
For more information, including his concert schedule and discography, please visit his web site http://www.shunskesato.com .