Nobuhiro Suyama Violin Recital with Kaito Kobayashi

Nobuhiro Suyama, concertmaster of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, will give a solo recital. He will perform a program of violin masterpieces with Kaito Kobayashi, a pianist who won the second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition (the highest prize ever awarded to a Japanese pianist).


　Program
Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454
Franck: Violin Sonata in A major, FWV 8
Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004
Paganini: I Palpiti, Op. 13

　Performers
Nobuhiro Suyama, Violin
Graduated from the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts after attending Tokyo Metropolitan Art High School. He won the second prize at the 1st Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition, and was loaned a G. F. Presenda (E. X. Schulz) made in 1831 by NPO Yellow Angel for two years. First prize winner of the Sion Valle International Violin Competition, and first prize winner of the NAGANO International Music Festival. Studied violin with Grigory Feigin, Shizuka Ishikawa, Gerard Poulet, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, and Shmuel Ashkenazy. She has performed as a soloist with the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, the Geidai Philharmonia, the Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Dohnanyi Budafok conducted by Shlomo Mintz, the Spirit of Europe, and others. She has performed with the Saitokinen Orchestra, Kioi Sinfonietta, Ako International Music Festival Pre-concert, Himeji International Music Festival Pre-concert, and many others. As a member of the Epice Quartet, he annually performs Beethoven's String Quartet Late Works series. After guest appearances as concertmaster with major orchestras throughout Japan, he was appointed as concertmaster of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra in 2018.

Kaito Kobayashi, piano
Kobayashi came into the limelight in 2021 when he won the 2nd Prize and the Best Chamber Music Performance Award at the Leeds International Piano Competition, the highest Japanese ever. In December 2022, he will make his recital debut at Kioi Hall in Tokyo and Wigmore Hall in London. 2014 and 2015 Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship recipients. He graduated from the Basel Conservatory in 2023 with a Master's degree in Liszt. Studied under Claudio Martinez Mehner.