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Keisuke Okazaki Violine (Japan) won the First Prize in the 54. ARD International Music Competition Munich in Germany. Keisuke Okazaki was born in 1979 in Fukuoka, Japan and began to study violin with his mother at age 4. Then after he recieved his lessons from Takaya Urakawa in Tokio. He has studied in Europe since 1996 with Zakhar Bron in Lübeck and Köln , and with Igor Ozim in Bern and Salzburg. He has practiced such categories as violin concertos, chamber music and orchestra works with Sir Simon Rattle,Toru Yasunaga und Guy Braunstein at the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestera Academy (socalled Karajan-Akademy) in 2004-2006. He won the First Prize in the Concorso Internazionale di Violino "Premio Rodolfo Lipizer" Gorizia in 2001, garnering all the special prizes as well. He has also won several prizes in other competitions and was a finalist in the "Josef Szigeti" International Violin Competition in Budapest in 2002, in the Hannover International Violin Competiton in Germany in 2003 and in the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brüssels in 2005. He has been invited as a guest artist to the Rheingau Musik Fetival in Germany, the International Music Festival Cesky Krumlov in Czech Republic, the Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival in Finnland und Zino Francescatti International Music Festival in France. Also he has appeared as a soloist with such renowned orchestra as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Bournmouth Sinfonietta, the St.Petersburg Philharmony, the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra und the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other orchestras in many countries. Im May 2006, he performed the world premiere of the violin concerto of the contemporary English comporser Morgan Hayes with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Birmingham. In November 2007 ,he has successfully performed as a soloist with the Slovak State Philharmonic Kosice for their germany-tour. His first CD-Recording "Keisuke-Debut!" was released by DENON in 2000.
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