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Tomotaka Seki

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He won the first prize and two special prizes in the violin category at the 20th Anniversary Khachaturian International Competition (Armenia) in 2024, the first Japanese ever to win the first prize and two special prizes in the violin category. In 2023, he won the second prize and two special prizes at the Bartók International Competition in Hungary; in 2024, he won the first prize at the 1st Grünewald International Competition in Berlin with a full vote in all rounds; in 2018, he won the first prize in the string section at the 16th Tokyo Music Competition; in the same year, he was a finalist at the Japan Music Competition.

 

As a soloist, he has performed with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Symphony Orchestra, and various other orchestras in Japan and abroad.

 

He started playing violin at the age of 3 at the Talent Education Institute, and in 2007, she toured in Japan as a member of Ten Children. Later, at the age of 10, he performed with an orchestra for the first time. In 2010, he won the first prize in the elementary school division of the All Japan Student Music Competition in Tokyo, and the first prize in the junior high school division of the All Japan Student Music Competition in Tokyo in 2011. He was a semifinalist in the Ron Thibault International Competition and the Kreisler International Competition.

He graduated from Tokyo College of Music High School and Tokyo College of Music Artist Diploma Course as a special scholarship student. While in school, he was selected as a Fukushima Ikueikai Scholarship student. After that, he studied under Florine Szigeti at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France. He has studied with Koichiro Harada, Mayuko Kamio, Kenji Kobayashi, Michiko Kamiya, Asako Urushihara, and Maya Morita. He has been actively involved in orchestral and chamber music, and studied with the NHK Symphony Orchestra as an academy student for three and a half years from the age of 18.

Currently, he is frequently invited as a guest concertmaster to 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 performed as a student of the 5th Suntory Chamber Music Academy. The quartet won prizes at the Akiyoshidai Competition and the Romania International Competition, and was awarded the Oleg Kagan Memorial Fund at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. 

He has given well-received recitals at Filia Hall, Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, Munetsugu Hall, and other venues. In 2021, he formed Trio Gokokuji and won the second prize at the Salzburg Mozart International Chamber Music Competition. In 2023, he successfully premiered a new opera at the Japan Society in New York as a member of the string quartet, and participated in the Chelsea Music Festival in New York as a chamber musician, expanding the scope of his activities worldwide. He is a Rohm Scholarship recipient for the year 2022. He plays a Francesco Ruggieri instrument specially loaned to him by Nippon Violin Co.

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