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Violin
Yayoi Toda

Yayoi Toda studied in the music department of Tokyo’s Toho Gakuen High School and after graduating at the top of her class from Toho University, she went to Europe for further studies at Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Music Academy. In 1993 she came to the attention of the classical music world when she walked away with first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium.

Her overseas performances have included the London Philharmonic Orchestra，the New York Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra, the Hague Residentie Orchestra, the Radio Chamber Orchestra (Holland), the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Noord-Nederlands Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony, the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen to name but a few, as well as many of Japan’s major orchestras.
She has also performed to rave reviews with artists including Seiji Ozawa, Yuri Simonov, Jean Fournet, Gary Bertini, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Martha Argerich, Stanislav Bunin, Peter Eötvös, Shlomo Mintz, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, and Alexander Schneider.
Last year she expanded her activities to Asia, performing with the Wuhan Orchestra in China and participating in the Jeju Music Isle Festival in South Korea. This year, she will conduct master classes in Holland and in Spain, and will star in concerts with Valery Afanassiev in Tokyo and Fukui.

She has made recordings such as “Enesco, J.S. Bach” and “The Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach” from the Ongaku-no-Tomo record label, “Six Sonatas for Violin Solo of Ysaye”, the precious favorite violin pieces “Reve Denfant” from EXTON.
In Fall 2010, her new recording of the 20th-century classical music, the unaccompanied Sonatas will be released.

She performs on the “Pietro Guarneri (1740)” generously provided by Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd．

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