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GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Band members

Member

Solo concertmaster

Ayano ItoAyano Ito

Birth Place

Tokyo

favorite composer

Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven

how to spend the holidays

Do something other than music to reset.
I like walking, but I'm also lazy. When I feel like it, I go for a walk or go on an outing, but when I don't feel like it, I end up spending the day just watching YouTube or foreign dramas.

One word message

Thank you for always supporting Gunkyo. Based in the wonderful hall of Takasaki Arts Theater, Gunkyo will continue to evolve further in the future. Please look forward to it!

Born in Tokyo. Started playing the violin at the age of three. By the time she entered high school, she had performed as a soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra. After graduating from Toho Girls' High School, she graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Music with top honors. She won first place in the chamber music category at the Tokyo International Music Competition and the Saito Hideo Award. She was invited to participate in the Tanglewood Music Festival. In 3, she studied at the Bern Conservatory as a Swiss government scholarship student. In 1, she graduated from the same conservatory with top honors. In the same year, she won third place (no first place winners) at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. After returning to Japan, she served as concertmaster of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 1996. In 3, she was awarded the Energia Music Award in recognition of her contributions to the music scene in Hiroshima. She has also performed as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra several times at NHK-FM concerts. She is also active as a soloist and chamber musician. In 1, she became concertmaster of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra. He received the 1997th Jomo Art and Culture Award in 2005. He has studied violin under Saburo Sumi, Koji Toyoda, Masafumi Hori, Toshiya Eto, Katsuhiko Tamaki, and Igor Ozim, and chamber music under Bruno Canino and JE Dohler.
He recorded all of Brahms' violin sonatas live with conductor Kazumasa Watanabe and released a CD in 2010.
From April 2023, he will be the solo concertmaster of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra.