Spring Festival in Tokyo 2019

Masafumi Hori(violist)

Masafumi Hori started playing the violin at the age of five. After graduating from Kyoto Municipal Horikawa Senior High School of Music, he moved to southern Germany to study at the University of Music Freiburg. During this time he toured across Europe as a soloist of ‘Ensemble Heidelberg’.

In 1973, he played Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No.1 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he was named First Concertmaster of ‘Staatsorchester Darmstadt’. While performing throughout Europe with different orchestras, Hori expanded his activities as a soloist and chamber musician.

His performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in 1979 brought him into the public spotlight. The same year, Hori became the orchestra’s concertmaster and has been leading it for the past 35 years. In 2015, he was also named Honorary Concertmaster. Hori is also active as a soloist, gives recitals, and performs chamber music. For his dedication to the NHK Symphony Orchestra he received the Arima Prize.

In addition to his performing career, he serves as a juror for numerous international competitions such as Geneva International Music Competition, International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart, and International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists. He is a Professor at the Toho Gakuen College of Music and at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Schedule & Ticket

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

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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

  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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