Marina Wako (Japan Music Competition 3rd Prize & Audience Prize) Violin Recital

Marina Wako, Violin
Marina Wako was born in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 2007. She won the first prize and the grand prix in the string section of the 20th Romanian International Music Competition. She was a semifinalist at the 13th Sibelius International Violin Competition. She won the First Prize and the Jury's Special Prize at the International Junior Music Competition Basel 2025. Winner of the 3rd Prize and the Iwatani Prize (Audience Prize) at the 91st Japan Music Competition. Grand Prize at the 1st Yokohama International Violin Competition. Awarded the IMA Music Prize at the Ishikawa Music Academy. Awarded the Grand Prize and the Runner-up Grand Prize in the Junior High School Division of the 24th Japan Performers' Competition.
Grand Prize and Prefectural Governor's Prize (Grand Prize) at the 37th Kanagawa Music Competition.
First Prize in the Junior High School Division of the 74th All Japan Music Competition for Students in Tokyo, and First Prize in the National Competition. Received the Usatsuka Prize and the Togi Prize. Won the Grand Prize and the Grand Prix in the 7th Sainokuni String Competition. Won the 1st Prize and the Runner-up Grand Prix in the Elementary School Division of the 20th Japan Musicians' Competition. She won the second prize in the elementary school division of the 71st All Japan Student Music Competition and the grand prix in the string division of the Senzoku Gakuen Junior Music Competition. 2015 she passed the JACK soloist audition in Hama.
She is currently enrolled as a special student in the third year of Toho Girls' High School Music Department (coeducational).
She studied under Koichiro Harada, Michiko Kamiya, and Sachika Mizuno.

Pinao: Akiko Mimata
Born in Sendai City. Graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music with top honors in piano.
In 2012 and 2013, she won the Special Prize of the Japan Music Competition Committee for Piano Accompaniment in the Violin Section. She has performed with domestic and international musicians as well as in the piano duo "Libra" with Wen Kyoka.
She is a commissioned musician for the Toho Gakuen School of Music's string music department. She is also a part-time lecturer at the chamber music department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She has been an official accompanist at the Ishikawa Music Academy, Kirishima International Music Festival, etc. She is a member of NPO Hama no JACK.