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YUKA SATO, violin
Japanese violinist Yuka Sato, began her career when she became the youngest member of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra in Japan at the age of 20. Sato earned her Bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of James Buswell, and she completed her Master’s degree with distinction at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague where her principal teacher was Vera Beths. Over the year, she has won top prizes in various competitions and is the recipient of numerous grants. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra and the Boston Chamber Orchestra, among others. Sato enjoys exploring unusual repertoire from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and she has premiered new music by various composers, including Marcel Tyberg’s String Sextet, which was praised as a “serious, compelling performance” (Buffalo News). She has also performed solo violin work by Wei-Chieh Lin in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2008.
In 2016, Sato joined the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in Norway. She is also an active chamber musician in Northern Europe and her home country, Japan. |