Today we continue with our series of introductions of musicians of amazing excellence and strong promise.
Violinst Rennosuke Fukuda was Born in 1999. He began playing the violin at the age of three. He studied in Japan under the guidance of Machie Oguri. At present, he studies with Svetlana Makarova and Pavel Vernikov at the Lausanne Conservatory in Switzerland.
Mr. Fukuda won his first competition at the age of four and has been giving concerts on Japanese national TV and radio since then. In 2013, he won the 1st prize and the “Virtuoso” prize at the 15th International Violin Competition in Kloster-Schoental (Germany). In 2014, he became a winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition for Young Musicians in Austin, Texas, and he debuted with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
I listened to this young man yesterday, and I was very impressed. The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is one of the most challenging works in the violin literature not only because of its technical difficulties, but also because it requires great musical maturity.
Here is Rennosuke Fukuda in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto:
