Spring Festival in Tokyo 2019

Ryo Mikami

Ryo Mikami leads career as an international soloist and chamber musician.
After performing in Europe as a member of Camerata Lysy, he returned to Japan to serve as a concertmaster of Sapporo Symphony Orchestra (2007-2011), including European tour 2011 in Munich, Dusseldorf, Rome, and London. Also, during this time he was a member of New Kitara Hall Quartet (2009 to 2011). In 2011, he made Tokyo his home base, and since, has been invited as a guest concertmaster of more than 10 orchestras such as Tokyo City Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic, Tokyo Mozart Players. He is an invited member of Saito Kinen Orchestra, voted the world's 19th greatest orchestra by a panel of critics assembled by Gramophone Magazine (2008), and in 2011, performed twice at the Carnegie Hall with Seiji Ozawa. He works with Maestro Ozawa in Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, and has been invited by Maestro to the Mito chamber orchestra since 2016.
As a soloist, Ryo was featured with Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic, and Sapporo and Tokyo symphony orchestras. Ryo released numerous albums: his ‘Tzigane' in 2008 was named as an “overwhelming debut CD” in The Mainichi Japan, the French Sonata Album (2013) reviewed by "Music contemporary" focused on “particularly impressive elegant serenity and dynamics, showing the strength of the core,” Satie-sfaction (2016), and the new album with Violoncello to be released this year.
Ryo is a 1st violinist of the Virtus Quartet since its founding in 2008, receiving Vienna Philharmonic and Suntory Music Aid Award in 2013. In upcoming season, he will lead quartet performing all Beethoven quartets in public for the 2nd time. A prize winner of Stradivarius Competition (2005), Britten International Competition (2004), and the Music Competition of Japan (1998), he serves as a member of the juries of the Music Competition of Japan, the most prestigious competition in the country.
He studied with Alberto Lysy (International Menuhin Music Academy 2006-2007), Pierre Amoyal (Conservatoire de Lausanne 2004-2007), Eduard Schmieder (Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University 2001-2003), Seiji Kageyama (Tokyo University of the Arts 1995-1999). Since 2016 he has been playing on Nicolo Amati made in 1628.

Schedule & Ticket

Place information

• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
  東京都美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園８−３６  Map

• Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
  東京文化会館

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  日本、〒110-8716 東京都台東区上野公園５−４５  Map

• Tokyo Kinema Club
  東京キネマ倶楽部

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  日本、〒110-0003 東京都台東区根岸１丁目１−１４  Map

• Ishibashi Memorial Hall
  石橋メモリアルホール

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  日本、〒110-0015 東京都台東区東上野４丁目２４−１２  Map

• Tokyo National Museum Heiseikan
  東京国立博物館平成館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園１３−９ 東京国立博物館内  Map

• Rising Square ground floor Earth Garden
  ライジング・スクエア1階 アース・ガーデン

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• Ueno Royal Museum
  上野の森美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園１−２  Map

• National Museum of Western Art
  国立西洋美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園７−７  Map

• National Science Museum
  国立科学博物館

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  日本、〒110-8718 東京都台東区上野公園７−２０  Map

• Old Tokyo Music School Gakudo
  旧東京音楽学校奏楽堂

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園８−４３  Map

• Tokyo University of the Arts
  奏楽堂

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  日本、〒110-8714 東京都台東区上野公園１２−８  Map

  Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学 , Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) or Geidai (芸大 ) is an art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for both Japanese and international students) in Adachi, Tokyo, and the other (for mainly international students) in Matsudo, Chiba.

  The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (東京美術学校 , Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校 , Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō) , both founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ((国立大学法人東京藝術大学 ) . On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."

  The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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