Moon LLC is pleased to announce that it has accepted the management of violinist Tomotake Seki.
Regarding Tomotake Seki, we will be managing him with the cooperation of our partnership partner, AMATI Co., Ltd.
We look forward to fully utilizing the unique strengths of each organization and supporting Tomotake Seki's future endeavors.
We look forward to your continued guidance and support.
Moon LLC / AMATI Co., Ltd.
In 2024, he became the first Japanese to win first place and two special prizes in the violin category at the 20th International Khachaturian Competition (Armenia). He also won second place and two special prizes at the 2023 International Bartók Competition (Hungary). He won first place in all rounds at the 1st International Grünewald Competition (Berlin). He won first place in the string category at the 16th Tokyo Music Competition in 2018. He was also a finalist at the Japan Music Competition that same year.
As a soloist, she has performed with various orchestras both in Japan and abroad, including the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Armenian National Symphony Orchestra.
She began playing the violin at the age of three with the Talent Education Research Association, and in 2007 toured Japan as a member of Ten Children. At age ten, she made her first performance with an orchestra. She won first place in the Tokyo competition for elementary school students in 2010 and the Tokyo competition for junior high school students in 2011. She was a semifinalist at the Long-Thibaud International Competition and the Kreisler International Competition. She attended and graduated from the Tokyo College of Music High School and the Artist Diploma Course at the Tokyo College of Music as a special scholarship student. While there, she was selected as a recipient of the Fukushima Scholarship Foundation.
She then studied under Florin Szigeti at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in France. He has studied under Koichiro Harada, Mayuko Kamio, Kenji Kobayashi, Michiko Kamiya, Asako Urushibara, and Maya Morita. He is also actively involved in orchestral and chamber music, having spent three and a half years as a student of the NHK Symphony Orchestra Academy since the age of 18.
He is currently frequently invited as guest concertmaster with various orchestras, including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra. In chamber music, he formed the Cercatore String Quartet in 2017 and is a member of the 5th Suntory Chamber Music Academy. He has won prizes at the Akiyoshidai Competition and the Romanian International Competition.
He was awarded the Oleg Kagan Memorial Fund at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. He has given recitals in various venues, including Philia Hall, Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, and Munetsugu Hall, to rave reviews. In 2021, he formed Trio Gokokuji, which won second place at the Salzburg Mozart International Chamber Music Competition. He also successfully premiered a new opera at the New York Japan Society in 2023 as a member of a string quartet, and participated as a chamber musician at the Chelsea Music Festival in New York, expanding his scope of activities globally.
He is a 2022 ROHM Scholarship recipient. He plays a Francesco Ruggieri instrument, specially loaned to him by Nippon Violin Co., Ltd.
AMATI Co., Ltd. / Moon LLC
