Fumiaki Miura - Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2015)

Fumiaki Miura is not only the youngest ever winner of the Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition (2009) but also the one with the most prizes - having also been awarded both the Music Critics' and the Audience Prize. The young Japanese violinist is already proving himself to be one of the most accomplished of his generation.

At only 22 years old, Fumiaki has performed with several of the world's leading orchestras, including NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Wiener KammerOrchester, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and has played under conductors including Kazushi Ono, Pietari Inkinen, Stéphane Denève, Kazuki Yamada, Kristjan Järvi and Rafael Payaré. Notable recent highlights include a tour of Japan with the Prague Philharmonia under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, and a performance of Penderecki's Double Concerto with Julian Rachlin, conducted by the composer himself in his 80th anniversary concert, where Fumiaki played the viola.

Highlights of the 2015/16 season include performances with Warsaw Philharmonic (Eiji Oue), Balears Symphony Orchestra (Alejandro Posada), Tokyo Philharmonic (Andrea Battistoni) and a tour of Japan with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Christopher Warren-Green). Further ahead, he will make his debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa and will return to the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

Last season, Fumiaki debuted with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia and the Utah and Jacksonville symphony orchestras. He also performed with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra on their European tour.

Fumiaki has appeared at numerous international music festivals such as Miyazaki International Music, Ravinia, Julian Rachlin and Friends, Schleswig-Holstein Musik, Musique de Menton as well as Menuhin Festival Gstaad. As a chamber musician he has performed with Mischa Maisky, Torleif Thedéen, Pinchas Zukerman and Lawrence Power, and made his Paris recital debuts at the Louvre and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In March 2016 he will give a chamber music concert in Utrecht.

Fumiaki's debut recording was a disc of both of Prokofiev's Violin Sonatas with Itamar Golan for Sony Japan. Due for release in autumn 2016 on Avex-classics is a recording of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concertos with Deutsches Symphonie-orchester Berlin and Hannu Lintu.

Miura performs the violin on the J.B. Guadagnini (1748) on loan from Yellow Angel Foundation and the viola on the Storioni school "ex-Julian Rachlin" (1780) on load from Nippon Violin.

Tracklist:
01 - Violin Concerto in D major work 35, I. Allegro moderato) (19:04)
02 - Violin Concerto in D major work 35, II. Canzonetta(Andante)) (6:40)
03 - Violin Concerto in D major work 35, III. Finale(Allegro vivacissimo)) (11:01)
04 - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64, I. Allegro molto appassionato) (13:31)
05 - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64, II. Andante) (8:11)
06 - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64, III. Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace) (7:16)