Spring Festival in Tokyo 2019

Mie Kobayashi (violin)

Mie Kobayashi is one of Japan's leading violinists. Her refined but dynamic performances have won high acclaim in Japan and elsewhere.

Mie Kobayashi studied at the high school attached to the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and continued to study at the university, from which she graduated at the top of her class. She won the Ataka prize and the Fukushima prize while studying at the university. She received the Kawai Overseas Competition Award in 1984, and Second Prize at the Louis Spohr International Competition, also earning a prize for sonata interpretation in 1988.

In 1990 she became the first Japanese to win the top prize of the violin division of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition for Piano and Violin, and from that point, she began her professional career inside and outside Japan.
Kobayashi has performed as a soloist with leading Japanese orchestras including NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, as well as Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Symphony Orchestra, all to high acclaim.

She is also active in the field of chamber music, performing with prominent musicians and as a member of the Shizuoka AOI Quartet, at festivals including Karuizawa International Music Festival where she appears every year.
Kobayashi has released numerous CDs including ”Plays Kreisler”, a duo with Pascal Rogé “Fauré” and “Ravel & Enescu”, and a collection of famous violin pieces including “Zigeunerweisen”.

In 2010, she gave an outstanding performance in a recital at Kioi Hall marking the 20th anniversary of her debut and was invited to become a jury member of the violin division of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition. In 2012, Kobayashi performed at the concert in Pakistan to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan. She has also performed in France, England, Thailand, China, Korea, and New Zealand, and fascinated the audience.

Kobayashi’s recitals, chamber music concerts, and performances with orchestras are scheduled nationwide for the coming years.
In 2015 commemorating the 25th anniversary of her debut, a three-year series of six concerts was planned and successfully completed. In February 2018, a new series of recitals to explore the multi-faceted allure of the violin has started.

Currently, she is a guest professor at the Showa University of Music.

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• 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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