Josep Maria Prat
Director & Chief Executive
Fumiaki Miura
Violin
Management:
Spain
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Portugal
Artist
Born in Tokyo, Fumiaki Miura starts his musical education with Tsugio Tokunaga at his hometown Conservatory before moving to Vienna to carry on his studies with Pavel Vernikov and Julian Rachlin. Since aged 16, Fumiaki is mentored and guided by Pinchas Zukerman. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the prestigious Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition, being the youngest winner ever.
His 23/24 season is highlighted by solo performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, ADDA Sinfónica de Alicante, Orchestra del Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, and the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Turkey. In addition, he will continue his chamber music activity with his partner pianist Itamar Golan in Italy, as well as with Varvara and Jonathan Roozeman, making his debut at the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical in Madrid.
Miura has performed with orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester, Prague Philharmonia, Mariinsky Theater, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, NAC Orchestra Ottawa, Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, Warsaw Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokio Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Japan Philarmonic, Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de Toulouse, BBC Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphoniker, hr-Sinfonieorchester or Hong Kong Sinfonietta, among others. Fumiaki Miura plays under the baton of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Pinchas Zukerman, Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kazushi Ono, Hannu Lintu, Jakub Hrůša, Vasily Petrenko, Josep Pons, Patrick Hahn, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Stéphane Denève, Kristjan Järvi, Tatsuya Shimono, Terry Fisher, and Rafael Payaré.
Regular invitations to international music festivals include the Miyazaki International Music, Ravinia Festival, Julian Rachlin and Friends, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musique de Menton, Gyeonggi Chamber Music Festivalnd Menuhin Festival Gstaad. Fumiaki has also performed at the Auditorium du Louvre and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Auditorio in Madrid, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Elbephiharmonie in Hamburg and at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Miura has collaborated with artists like Yuri Bashmet, Itamar Golan, Sunwook Kim, Mischa Maisky, Maria João Pires, Lawrence Power, Julian Rachlin, Torleif Thedéen, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Jonathan Roozeman, Varvara or Pinchas Zukerman.
Since 2018 he has been artistic director of Suntory Hall ARK Classics and has just completed the 2023 edition together with artists such as Nobuyuki Tsujii, Jonathan Roozeman, Young Soung and Sergei Nakariakov. In the summer of 2023, Fumiaki toured Japan - as soloist and conductor - with ARK Sinfoniettta, an orchestra formed especially for ARK Classics with eminent young artists. Months earlier, he performed Mozart's Symphonie Concertante with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and Pinchas Zukerman at the baton.
In 2022 Fumiaki was also elected "Forbes 30 under 30 Asia" after being elected "Forbes 30 under 30 Japan" in 2019. In 2024, to celebrate his 15th anniversary after his debut, Fumiaki will perform complete cycles of Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Japanese pianist Kazune Shimizu at Suntory Hall.
His discography includes Prokofiev violin sonatas with the pianist Itamar Golan for Sony Japan, as well as Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Hannu Lintu released by Avex-Classics label.
Miura performs on the Guarneri del Gesu 1732 violin “Kaston” kindly loaned by Crystco Inc. and its CEO, Mr. Hikaru Shimura.
Repertoire
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in A minor no. 1 BWV 1041
Violin Concerto in E major no. 2 BWV 1042
Double Concerto in D minor BWV 1043
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56
Alban Berg
Violin Concerto «Dem Andenken eines Engels»
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto in G minor no. 1, Op. 26
Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, Op. 46
Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15
Antonin Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53
Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto in C major no. 1 Hob. VIIa:1
Aram Khachaturian
Violin Concerto in D minor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto in B-flat major no. 1, K. 207
Violin Concerto in D major no. 2, K. 211
Violin Concerto in G major no. 3, K. 216
Violin Concerto in D major no. 4, K. 218
Violin Concerto in A major no. 5, K. 219
Serguei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto in G minor no. 2, Op. 63
Camille Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto in D major no. 3 Op. 61
Introduction et rondo capriccioso, Op.28
Franz Schubert
Rondo in A major
Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23
Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto in A minor no. 1, Op. 99
Violin Concerto in C-sharp minor no. 2, Op. 129
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
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Reviews
The Salt Lake Tribune
“23-year-old Japanese violinist Fumiaki Miura [is] already a favorite at Abravanel Hall. Miura's solo vehicle in his third Utah Symphony appearance is the daunting Elgar Violin Concerto, twice as long as a typical violin concerto and deceptively difficult. Not only did the violinist hold his own against Elgar's weighty and colorful orchestration, he did so with appealing musicality and an unfailingly sweet tone.”
Musicweb.com
“I am almost certain that we will be hearing a lot more of Fumiaki Miura in days to come. Such outstanding talent bodes well for his future career.” [Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos]
The Salt Lake Tribune
"He met the concerto’s virtuosic demands with apparent ease, navigating extended passages of high harmonics with near-surgical precision and singing out beguiling melodies with a rich, full-bodied tone."
Arts and Opinion
“Mr Miura is the consummate, non-showy artist whose attention is totally on the music. His expressive playing illustrated staggeringly supreme technique. He is an artist of such brilliance, I marvelled at his talent and obvious hard work, for this piece is of such difficulty.”
Des Moines Register
"Miura calmly pulled sound from his violin like golden thread from a spool, with sensitive phrasing and a lustrous tone."
reichelrecommends.com
“Playing Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Miura exhibited poise, an amazing depth of expression, remarkable technical acumen and radiant musicality…. He took charge of the work from the start and never looked back.”
The Salt Lake Tribune
“Miura quickly made believers of an enthusiastic Abravanel Hall audience, nimbly traversing the folk-song-rich work with lustrous tone that added a radiant thread throughout the brooding score. The work’s finale was a joyful nod to Scotland’s indomitable spirit, highlighted by Miura’s technical prowess and musical flair that increased with each variation.”
Mannheimer Morgen
“The 17-year old soloist Fumiaki Miura is not contented simply with showing off his awardwinning virtuosity. He tackles the Carmen Fantasy by Franz Waxman with weightless gallantry, underlining the glowing, alluring, and ethereal character of the Bizet melodies.
Discography
Prokofiev: Violín Sonata No. 1 & No. 2
Composer
Sergei Prokofiev
Year
2017
Performers Fumiaki Miura, Itamar Golan
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Fumiaki Miura
Composer
Henryk Wieniawski, Antonín Dvorak, Giuseppe Tartini, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ernest Bloch, Pable de Sarasate
Label
Avex Japan
Year
2016
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Tchaikovsky & Medelssohn: Violín Concherto
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Label
Avex Japan
Year
2014
Performers Fumiaki Miura, Hannu Lintu, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin