Daishin Kashimoto

Born in London in 1979, Daishin Kashimoto began studying violin in Tokyo at the age of three. He moved to New York in 1985 to study with Prof. Naoko Tanaka of The Juilliard School and in 1986, at the age of seven, was accepted by the Juilliard School as its youngest student. Four years later, he began his studies with Prof. Zakhar Bron (Lübeck) and then moved to Freiburg (1999-2004) to study with Prof. Rainer Kussmaul, former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.

He has performed with the Vienna and Berlin Symphony Orchestras, Boston Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Daishin has worked with many great conductors, including Mariss Jansons, Semyon Bychkov, Michel Plasson, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Hugh Wolff, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Marek Janowski, Heinz Holliger, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Heinrich Schiff, Charles Dutoit and Yuri Temirkanov.

He has performed in chamber music groups with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Konstantin Lifschitz, Itamar Golan, Boris Pergamenshikov, Rainer Kussmaul, Yefim Bronfman, Shlomo Mintz, Tabea Zimmermann, Paul Meyer, Éric Le Sage and Misha Maisky.

Daishin has been awarded first prize at several major competitions, including the Cologne International Violin Competition (1994), and in 1996 he was the youngest winner in history of both the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition in Vienna and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition for Piano and Violin in Paris.

Since 1999 Daishin Kashimoto has had a worldwide recording contract with Sony Classical.