Fumiaki Miura

Born in Tokyo in 1993, he first studied with Tsugio Tokunaga at hometown’s Conservatory and moved to Vienna to carry on his studies with Pavel Vernikov and Julian Rachlin. Since he was 16, he has been mentored by Pinchas Zukerman who has guided him through his professional career. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the prestigious Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition, being the youngest winner ever.

He has appeared with the most prestigious international orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester, Prague Philharmonia, Mariinsky Theater, Tchaykovsky Symphony Orchestra, NAC Orchestra Otawa, Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, Warsaw Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokio Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony or Japan Philarmonic, among others. He has played under the baton of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Pinchas Zukerman, Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Kazushi Ono, Hannu Lintu, Jakub Hrůša, Vasily Petrenko, Josep Pons, Christopher Warren-Green, Pietari Inkinen, Stéphane Denève, Kazuki Yamada, Kristjan Järvi, Tatsuya Shimono, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Terry Fisher and Rafael Payaré.

Fumiaki Miura is regularly invited to international music festivals such as Miyazaki International Music, Ravinia Festival, Julian Rachlin and Friends, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musique de Menton and Menuhin Festival Gstaad. At the same time, he collaborates with artists like Yuri Bashmet, Itamar Golan, Sunwook Kim, Mischa Maisky, Maria João Pires, Lawrence Power, Julian Rachlin, Torleif Thedéen, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Varvara or Pinchas Zukerman. He has already performed at first class concert halls all over the world such as Auditorium Louvre, Auditorio de Madrid, Palau de la Música de Barcelona, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées or Wigmore Hall in London. Highlights of the upcoming season 19/20 include his debut at Elbephiharmonie with Hamburg Symphony Orchestra with Patrick Hahn, as well as collaborations with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Santtu-Matias Rouvali, BBC Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, Düsseldorf Symphoniker with Alpesh Chauhan, hr-Sinfonieorchester with Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse with Maxim Emelyanychev, Hong Kong Sinfonietta with Dawid Runtz, Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev or Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman. Miura has recorded the Prokofiev violin sonatas with the pianist Itamar Golan for Sony Japan, as well as Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Hannu Lintu released by Avex-Classics label. Fumiaki Miura plays a 1704 Stradivarius on a kindly loan of the Munetsugu Foundation.