Nineteen years old Japanese Violinist Rennosuke Fukuda has been described by The Violin Channel as “quickly building an international reputation as a young virtuoso of outstanding potential”. Rennosuke won the 2014 Junior Division of the Menuhin Competition for young violinists in Austin, TX, USA, which earned him the honour of playing with the Cleveland Orchestra. Other performances of note include those with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Romanian Radio National Orchestra the North Czech Philharmonic, the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra. International prizes that Rennosuke has won in the 33rd Valsesia Musica 2017. And also he won include the Reinhold Wurth Promotion Prize with the highest score in the All Age Group, and the 2013 Sonderpreis “Virtuoz” for best interpretation of a virtuoso piece in the 15th International Kloster Schöntal violin competition in Germany. Rennosuke has performed under the direction of a number of renowned conductors that include Giancarlo Guerrero, Kazuki Yamada, Dmitri Jurowski, Gabriel Bebeselea, Norichika Iimori, Seikyo Kim and Masahiko Enkoji. Having studied with professors Chihiri Kudo, Machie Oguri and Keiko Urushihara in Japan, Rennosuke began studying with professors Pavel Vernikov and Svetlana Makarova in Sion, Switzerland, in September 2015.

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