Hiroka Matsumoto

is a Japanese violinist.

Early life Matsumoto was born at Suginami-ku, Tokyo in 1995. She lived at Aoba-ku, Yokohama City from age of three. and made her debut at Philia Hall three months later.

Career Matsumoto was observed as "extremely gifted and blessed a huge potential capacity" and it was said that she "will undoubtedly grow into a unique musical personality" by Zakhar Bron at seven years old. At the age of nine, she gave her first recital in Budapest, Hungary. This attracted attention as the first concert using that particular small violin, which was made in 1746, outside of Austria.

In Japan, Matsumoto studied under Koichiro Harada, a professor of Toho Gakuen School of Music, and Gérard Poulet. She studied in Vienna for three years starting in the fall of 2014 as a trainee of an up-and-coming artists overseas study program of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in three years, In 2022, she received her second time bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University biology lab, researched the effects of violin playing on animal behavior. In 2023, she received Concertmaster Artist Diploma from Academia Stauffer Concertmaster in Cremona, Italy.

Since 2024 she has been a scholarship student at Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, US and performing as a soloist both in US and Japan.

Awards 2006 - (Poland), Junior Division, Second Prize (youngest)

Recitals Matsumoto opened the following recitals in Japan.

2009-04 - Tsuda Hall (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) 2011-03 - Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall 2011-04 - Philia Hall 2011-09 - Musashino Civic Cultural Hall ... Piano: Eliane Reyes 2011-10 - Nakano ZERO, Planetarium 2011-11 - Nakano ZERO, Large Hall 2012-05 - Act Tower Music Workshop Hall 2014-11 - Philia Hall - Aoba-ku 20th Anniversary Concert 2018-09 - Takashi Sato & Hiroka Matsumoto Duo Recital 2018-09 - Takeshi Takehashi & Hiroka Matsumoto Duo Recital

Concerts In Japan 2011 - New Japan Philharmonic (conductor: Jonathan Schiffman) - Musashino Civic Cultural Hall 2012 - Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Mitsuhashi Keiko) - Suginami Public Hall, Great Hall 2019 Barrier-free concert—Let's Come Together—István Kohán & Hiroka Matsumoto Joint Concert. Philia Hall Video.

Gyor Philharmonic Orchestra subscription concert was broadcast in Slovakia on 2010-12.