Born in Tokyo in 1994, Karen Kido began her violin training at the age of four. At the age of nine, she won the Grand Prize in the Kamakura City Student Music Competition. At the age of thirteen, she won 1st prize in the 61st Student Music Competition of Japan sponsored by the Mainichi Newspaper. The following year, she won 1st prize in the 28th Michelangelo Abbado International Competition for Violinists (Milan).
At the age of fifteen, in the Violin Section of the 2009 George Enescu International Competition (Bucharest), she was awarded the Premium Special ‘‘Remember Enescu’’ Award, and received encouragement from her jury. During her high school days, she won the 14th Matsukata Hall Music Award sponsored by the Kobe Newspaper, and 2nd prize in the 79th the Music Competition of Japan sponsored by the Mainichi Newspaper & NHK. She also performed a Beethoven violin concerto in the 80th music Competition of Japan, where she won 3rd prize. In 2013, she received the special ‘‘Youth Award’’ in the 8th Leopold Mozart International violin competition.
While Karen devoted herself to her studies at domestic and foreign seminars, including the Ozawa International Chamber Music Academy in Okushiga, she won the Ishikawa Music Academy IMA Music Award, an Award of the Förderverein der Carl Flesch Akademie, and a Miyazaki Music Academy Award. As a soloist, Karen has performed with the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonie, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Miyazaki International Music Festival Orchestra, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. From the age of eight, Karen studied under Prof. Yasuo Mito at the preschool for the Tokyo College of Music.
She has studied under Koichiro Harada, Asako Urushihara, and Masafumi Hori. She also takes lessons from Tsugio Tokunaga, Masao Kawasaki, and Pierre Amoyal. Currently a 4th-year student at Tokyo University of the Arts, she is supported by the Ezoe Memorial Foundation. She was awarded the Fukushima Award for the most excellent freshman in a string section in a University.
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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.