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NAKANO Lina(Japan)
NAKANO Lina was born in Tokyo in 2004.
She started playing the violin at the age of 3, and studied under Ms. MORIKAWA Chihiro at the Music School for Children affiliated with the Toho Gakuen College Music Department. Since 2015, Lina has been playing the violin under Prof. Paul ROCZEK’s tutelage at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg on a regular basis. She is currently enrolled in the soloist diploma course at Toho Gakuen School of Music, and studies under Prof. TATSUMI Akiko. She is also studying with Prof. Dalibor Karvay at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. In addition, she is a 2023 ROHM Music Foundation scholarship student.
In 2014, she won first prize at the 68th Student Music Concours of Japan (Elementary school division) in which she also received the Tsuda Umeko Memorial Music Award. She captured the first grand prize at Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition for Young Musicians in Category A (Belgium) in 2015. She also secured first prize at the 72nd Student Music Concours of Japan (Junior high school student section), the 3rd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians (China) in 2019, and at the 90th Music Competition of Japan in 2021. During this time, several awards were bestowed upon her including the Iwatani Award, the Leucadia Award, the Sumi Award, the Kuroyanagi Award, and the Masuzawa Award. She was also presented with the 7th Arion-Toho Music Award in 2020.
At the 8th Sendai International Music Competition in 2022, at age 17, Lina made history by becoming the youngest first prize winner of the event to date, and in addition was awarded the Audience Prize for which she received much media attention.
She has given notable performances with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Salzburg Chamber Soloists etc.
She plays a 1716 Stradivarius on loan from the ITOH Foundation.
In December of 2022, she released a debut CD of her live performances at the 8th Sendai International Music Competition. Her next CD is expected to be available in late 2023.