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Yoko Suzuki
Violinist andViolist

Born in Tokyo, Japan, she started playing the violin when she was 3 years old.  In 1986 and 1988, while still an elementary school pupil, she visited Mexico to take part in the Mexico-Japan Friendship Course in Cocoyoc, Morelos, an event organized by the Academia Yuriko Kuronuma.  In these two occasions, apart from attending the course, she performed at the Nezahualcoyotl Hall, Cuernavaca City Theater and for the Channel 9, Televisa.

She made her professional studies at the Tokyo University of Music, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in 1996.  She won a scholarship to continue her studies at the Music School of Indiana University, U.S..  Later, she moved to Europe where she studied at theNationalMusicAcademy “Franz Liszt” in Budapest, Hungary under the guidance of Professors Maria Zs Szaboi, Gerge Mikulos and Geza Nemet, among others. During this period she participated in the Professor Milan Vitek’s Master Class in Litomysl, in the Czech Republic.

She won several prizes such as the Special Jury Prize in the Competition for Young Soloists of the International League for the Arts in 1996, and the 4th Kayabuki Competition in Kyoto for Duo Ensemble in 2004, among others.

She has appeared many times as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and other major cities in Japan, in Hungary and the Czech Republic, as well.

In 2005 she had the opportunity to perform for the Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of the Japanese Imperial Family, in Japan.

Since 2006 she gives violin and viola lessons at the Academia Yuriko Kuronuma as a guest professor.

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