Kairi Hirasawa Violin Recital

Kairi Hirasawa was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1994. She studied at Toho Gakuen School of Music after graduating from Toho Girls' High School (co-ed) in Music. 2014 Special Prize at the Salzburg Mozart International Chamber Music Competition. 2015 Top Prize at the Cecilia International Music Competition. He has participated in the Japan Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra and the Kirishima Festival Orchestra. He has also performed with Hamao Fujiwara, Svetlin Rusev, Naaki Tamai, Fumiaki Kono, and the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as concertmaster for student orchestras and guest conductor for professional orchestras in Japan and abroad since he was a student at the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he will join the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra as an assistant concertmaster, and in 2022, he will become the concertmaster of the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. Currently active as a soloist and chamber musician in addition to his work with the orchestra, he performed the complete unaccompanied Bach Suites in 2021 and the complete Paganini Caprices in 2022, both to great acclaim. She has studied violin with Naaki Tamai and Hamao Fujiwara, and chamber music with Futao Tokunaga, Kazuoki Fujii, Mikako Abe, and Akira Shirao.

Yusuke Takahashi, piano, graduated from Ueno Gakuen College of Music. He won the first prize in the piano section of the 10th Tokyo Music Competition and the Audience Prize, and was a recipient of the 5th scholarship from the NPO, Arts and Culture Young Scholarship Society. He has appeared in numerous concerts including the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Morning Concert, Fresh Masterpieces Concert, and NHK Best of Classics. She is a member of the two-piano unit "176 (un sept six)" with pianist/arranger Atsushi Yamanaka, and in 2020, Kawai Publishing Co. published a two-piano version of Respighi's Roman Triptych, which she co-wrote and arranged with Yamanaka. He has performed with Nobuko Imai, Teiko Maebashi, and other well-known performers.

The host, Concert Club Yuzawa, has presented Reiko Watanabe Violin Recital, Takuji Sato/Shunsuke Sato Duo Concert, Takuji Sato Piano Recital, Megumi Tsuyama Soprano Recital, Fumito Nunoya Marimba Concert, Itsuko Sakano Piano Recital, Afternoon Baroque with Recorder, Yuhki Saito and Toru Yamamoto and Yukari Ishikawa, Shinsuke Hanegawa cello recital, Eri Takahashi soprano recital, Naruhiko Kawaguchi fortepiano recital, and Aoi trio recital have been held at the Ogatsu Cultural Hall Orbion, which is well known for its excellent sound.