Asuka Sezaki

Asuka Sezaki (born 1977)

For her first recital, in 1992, she performed Paganini's Twenty-four caprices. She has been invited, in France, to the festivals of Bourgogne and Reims as well as to the Festival de musique de l'Orangerie de Sceaux. She has given recitals at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 1996 : Fourth prize at the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poland. in Trieste, also the A. Valdovino prize for a piece by Schubert 2003 : prix Académie Maurice Ravel : prix de la Ville de Ciboure 2005 : Concours Stradivarius de la Bourse Forval : first prize. 2007 : Grand Prix du Disque des Arts for her first record with the six sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe (ALM RECORDS / Kojima Recordings)