Spring Festival in Tokyo 2019

Tomoko Kato (violin)

Tomoko Kato (Kato Tomoko, September 6, 1957 -) is a Japanese violinist. She was born in Tokyo. She is professor at Toho Gakuen University.

She started playing the violin at the age of four. In 1969 when I was in elementary school (6th grade), she won first prize in the 23rd All Japan Student Music National Competition. In 1976, she entered Toho Gakuen University and studied with Toshiya Eto. In 1978, she won the first prize at the 47th Japan Music Competition, 1979, a special prize at the overseas dispatch contest.

After graduating from college in 1980, she joined the Tanglewood Music Festival and studied under Lawrence Lesser. In 1981, as a temporary trainee for the Agency for Cultural Affairs, she studied at the Juilliard School for 2 years and studied under Dorothy Delay. In 1982, she won the second prize at the 7th Tchaikovsky International Competition. The first place in this round was Victoria Murova, Sergei Stadelle and two Soviet leaders.

She returned to Japan in 1983 and opened a Japanese debut recital. In 1996, she became Toho Gakuen University Associate Professor, later Professor.

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Place information

• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
  東京都美術館

  Address

  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

  Address

  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

  Address

  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

  Address

  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

  Address

  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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    Map

• Ueno Royal Museum
  上野の森美術館

  Address

  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

  Address

  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

  Address

  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

  Address

  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

  Address

  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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