Daishin Kashimoto / Violin

Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Daishin Kashimoto began studying the violin in Tokyo at the age of three under Prof. Kumiko Eto. Having moved to New York at the age of six, he studied with Prof. Naoko Tanaka, a faculty member at the Juilliard School. The following year he was accepted by the pre-college division of the Juilliard School as its youngest student and received the Edward John Noble Foundation Scholarship. He moved to Germany in 1990 to study with Prof. Zakhar Bron at the Luebeck Musikhochschule and at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg under Prof. Rainer Kussmaul. In 1988, Kashimoto gave his first recital, as well as his first concert as a soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble in New York. Since then, he has given recitals and solo appearances in the USA, the Far East and in many European countries. He has performed with numerous internationally renowned orchestras, including the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Radio Symphony Orchestras of Cologne, Frankfurt and Moscow, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Czech Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Vienna and Berlin Symphony Orchestras, English Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Boston Symphony, and the Sinfonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks under the baton of such great conductors as Mariss Jansons, Semyon Bychkov, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Hugh Wolff, Evgeny Svetlanov, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Marek Janowski, Heinz Holliger, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Heinrich Schiff, Mikhail Pletnev, Charles Dutoit, Myung-Whun Chung and Yury Temirkanov. Kashimoto has also performed in chamber music groups with artists such as Yury Bashmet, Alexander Lonquich, Myung-Whun Chung, Itamar Golan, Boris Pergamenschikow, Rainer Kussmaul, Claudio Bohorquez, Yefim Bronfman, Shlomo Mintz, Konstantin Lifshitz, Tabea Zimmermann, Paul Meyer, Antoine Tamestit, Jian Wang, Eric Le Sage and Misha Maisky.

Daishin Kashimoto is first prize winner of such renowned competitions as the 6th Menuhin International Junior Violin Competition (England, 1993), the International Competition for Violinists (Cologne, 1994), and, in 1996, as the youngest winner in history of both the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition in Vienna and the Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud International Competition for Piano and Violin in Paris. In 1994, Daishin was awarded the Steigenberger Prize and the Davidoff Prize, as well as the Brahms Prize (Germany, 1999).

Kashimoto signed a worldwide recording contract with Sony Classical and has released two CDs with Itamar Golan and a live recording with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Myung-Whum Chung.