Mio Takahashi violin

Mio Takahashi

Violin

Biography

Born in 2001, Japanese violinist Mio Takahashi moved to London at the age of three. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) under Professor Philippe Honoré, after completing her Bachelor of Music there, graduating with first-class honours. She is a recipient of The Clarence Myerscough Trust Award 23-24. Mio was a strings category finalist of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2020, where her playing was described as ‘gorgeous and effortless’. In February 2022, she gave the world premiere of Shinuh Lee’s Caprice No.4 for violin, ‘Totentanz’, as part of RAM’s 200 PIECES series, launched to celebrate the Academy’s bicentenary.

Passionate about chamber music, Mio frequently performs with her quartet who were selected to be Britten Pears Young Artists for 23-24, and most recently won the RAM Harold Craxton Prize alongside pianist Sherri Lun. They receive regular coaching from John Myerscough, cellist of the Doric String Quartet, through the RAM Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training Scheme, generously funded by the Frost Trust. They have been invited to perform with Brett Dean at the Calne Music and Arts Festival in October 2024.

Other previous festivals she has been invited to are the Mendelssohn-on-Mull festival, where she collaborated with the Doric String Quartet, and the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival, performing Mendelssohn Octet with the Carducci Quartet, Guy Johnston and Magnus Johnston. She has also performed at Conway Hall with Roger Vignoles and James Gilchrist.

Mio was accepted onto the London Symphony Orchestra String Experience Scheme, gaining the opportunity to perform in their 2022-2023 season, working under conductors Marin Alsop, François-Xavier Roth and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has also performed with Knussen Chamber Orchestra in the Aldeburgh Festival 2022, under the baton of Ryan Wigglesworth.

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