the Autumn leave(s)

Vn. Shu Yamada
Born in 1999. Graduated from Rakusei High School and Kyoto City University of Arts. He studied violin under Takehiro Kintsuto, Taira Ozaki, Kyoko Shikata, Yuyuki Iwatani, Giorgi Babuaze, and Yu Kurokawa. She has taken chamber music lessons from Takashi Izumihara, Yasutsugu Toyoshima, Kaeko Mukaiyama, Shohei Kamimori, and Koichi Komine. He has made guest appearances with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra and others, and served as concertmaster at the 2017 Ukon Takayama Blessing Ceremony at Osaka Castle Hall. He won the Excellence Prize and the Kobe Shimbun Award at the 20th KOBE International Music Competition and is a 2021 Aoyama Music Foundation Scholarship recipient.
Performed Sibelius' Violin Concerto with a university orchestra under the direction of Tatsuya Shimono. His activities include participation in recording and live performances of pop and metal music, and improvisation ensembles with acoustic sculpture and percussion instruments.

Vc.Taniguchi Koki
Taniguchi began playing the cello at the age of 10.
He has studied under Seiko Kaji and Noboru Uemura. He graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts. Performed Dvorak's cello concerto with the Lake Biwa Philharmonic Orchestra.
She took lessons from Wolfgang Boettcher and Tamás Varga at the Kusatsu Summer International Academy.
Currently, she is active in the Kansai region, mainly as a guest performer with professional orchestras and in chamber music.

Chizuru Kinoshita, Pf.
Born in Osaka, Kinoshita began studying at the Ai Music School at the age of 8.
She graduated from Toho Girls' High School for Music, Aoyama Gakuin College of Business Administration, Toho Gakuen College College Diploma Course, and the Master's Course in Piano at the Kunstakademie der Musik Dresden.
Third prize at the All Japan Student Music Competition in Osaka. Third prize at the 5th Toho Piano Competition. He won the third prize in the Age-G division of the 18th Osaka International Music Competition for Piano.
She has studied under Keiko Takeuchi, Hisako Motomura, Kyoko Tabe, Junko Ikeda, Gunther Anger, and Willem Brons.