Tomoko KawadaTomoko Kawada

Tomoko Kawada graduated at the top of her class from the Tokyo University of the Arts. She has studied with Takeshi Kobayashi, Kazuki Sawa, Chikashi Tanaka, Koichiro Harada, Masafumi Hori, and Wolfgang Marschner. She won the 5th Spohr International Violin Competition in 1991. In addition to appearances as a soloist inside and outside Japan, her wide-ranging activities include concertmaster, chamber musician, and teacher. She has received acclaim for performances with orchestras including the NHK Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Barcelona City Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony, and Moscow Philharmonie.

In 2003, Tomoko Kawada was awarded the 33rd Exxon-Mobil Music Award (Western classical music promotion division). In September and October of that year she gave recitals in Turkey and Egypt in a project organized by the Japan Foundation. In 2007, she performed a duo concert in Budapest with pianist Jenú Jandó. She collaborates with a diverse range of musicians including cembalo player Shin-ichiro Nakano. She earned high praise for her concert of the complete unaccompanied works of Bach at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in 2019. She also participates each year in the Miyazaki International Music Festival, where she performed in chamber music concerts with Pinchas Zukerman.

Tomoko Kawada has released 12 CDs on the Meister Music label, including J.S. Bach: Sonata and Partita; and Starlight and Youkali, duets with viola player Sachiko Suda. Tomoko Kawada is a lecturer at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, and a part-time lecturer in the music department of Tokyo University of the Arts.

September 2024