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Artist Info :: Ayako Yamazaki

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Ayako Yamazaki

Born in Japan, Ayako Yamazaki started her musical life at the age of  three with the piano and singing lessons and started playing the violin a year later. She moved to London in 2000, where she gained Bachelor of  Music and Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music under professors Richard Deakin and Jean Harvey. Her study was supported by the Belmore-Woodgate Scholarsip throughout the years at the Academy. She was prizewinner at several internal competitions. She then went on further study with Bela Katona. The "work" with the master of the great Hungarian School greatly helped her discover deep inner singing and the  true voice of the instrument in any style of music. Ayako has benefitted from masterclasses with a number of renowned violinists, such as Sylvia Rosenberg, Norbert Brainin, Lewis Kaplan and Thomas Brandis, as well as Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine, U.S.A.

Ayako's unique but sincere musical approach, which was formed through experiencing many different cultures and styles, brings her to perform in many places as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.K., as well as in Italy and Japan at venues such as Kings Place, St. James’s Church Piccadilly (London) and Ongaku-no-tomo Hall (Tokyo) and her recital at the Bristol Cathedral got a rare 9/10 appreciation from the Bristol Evening Post music reviewer John Packwood.

She was a finalist at the Japan Chamber Music Competition with her  violin duo. Her orchestral experiences include leading positions of various orchestras and performances in Philharmonia, New London Sinfonia, Arion Orchestra and London Chamber Players. She has been chosen for leading  positions at orchestra festivals such as National Youth Orchestra of  Netherlands and Britten-Peares Young Artist Programme. The experiences of playing under conductors such as Sir Colin Davis and Vladimir Ashkenazi gave her much inspiration. She has also toured to Algeria to work as a co-leader at the National Orchestra of Algeria. Having much interest also in Baroque music, she leads a consort for the choral works and operas of that period.