Hiroki Tanizaki

TANIZAKI Hiroki

First Violin

Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. After attending Sapporo International and Information High School, she graduated from Tokyo College of Music and completed her master's program at the university. She has won numerous chamber music competitions, including first place in the chamber music category of the 12th Cecilia International Music Competition and third place in the 2018 Salzburg Mozart International Chamber Music Competition. While attending university, she performed in a chamber music concert for successful auditionees. She was also recommended by her university to take master classes with Lucy Robert and Shunsuke Sato. She has studied violin with Hidetaka Murayama, Teru Uchida, Keiko Shimada, Yasuko Otani, and Yoshio Unno, and chamber music with Toshiro Yokoyama, Masaharu Kanda, and Hidemi Suzuki. She will join the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2022.

One of my favorite songs	Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Born in Finland, Sibelius left behind many works that express the majestic nature of his home country. For me, who was born and raised in Hokkaido, he is a rare composer whose work brings to mind the scenery of my hometown just by listening to it. This symphony has few of the heavy, dark parts characteristic of Sibelius, and is overall a bright melody. Beneath the harshness of winter, beauty and joy constantly coexist. At the time of composition, he made it a daily habit to take walks near his home, which was surrounded by forest, and he apparently wrote in his diary in detail about the earth, the air, the swans and cranes that flew in, the trees, flowers, and small insects. Such contact with nature must have been the driving force behind his compositional endeavors. The refreshing horn theme at the beginning of the first movement, the world where tiny lives shine brightly in the second movement, and the dashing finale of the third movement... you can surely feel the scenery he saw in all of these.

One of my favorite songs

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

Born in Finland, Sibelius left behind many works that express the majestic nature of his home country. For me, who was born and raised in Hokkaido, he is a rare composer whose work brings to mind the scenery of my hometown just by listening to it. This symphony has few of the heavy, dark parts characteristic of Sibelius, and is overall a bright melody. Beneath the harshness of winter, beauty and joy constantly coexist.
At the time of composition, he made it a daily habit to take walks near his home, which was surrounded by forest, and he apparently wrote in his diary in detail about the earth, the air, the swans and cranes that flew in, the trees, flowers, and small insects. Such contact with nature must have been the driving force behind his compositional endeavors. The refreshing horn theme at the beginning of the first movement, the world where tiny lives shine brightly in the second movement, and the dashing finale of the third movement... you can surely feel the scenery he saw in all of these.

Hiroki Tanizaki

First Violin

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