Thursday 19 November 4.00 pm

Streamed LIVE concert in an empty church

Coco Tomita (violin)
Kan Tomita (piano)

Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F Op 24 ‘Spring'

Chausson: Poeme

Ravel: Violin Sonata no 2 in G

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The UK based Japanese violinist Coco Tomita is a winner of the BBC Young Musician 2020 Strings Category. Previously, she won various other prizes at international competitions and festivals including Golden Medals at the Vienna International Music Competition 2019 and Berliner International Music Competition 2019, Carl Flesch Prize at the Carl Flesch Academy 2019, 3rd Prize in the Junior section of the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition (Italy) and 1 st prize at the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition 2017 where she also won the Duke of Devonshire Award.

Coco was born in 2002 and began to play the violin when she was four years old. She became a pupil of Natasha Boyarsky when she was six, and from 2012 to 2020, she continued her study with her at the Yehudi Menuhin School as well as with Lutsia Ibragimova. She also received guidance from some of the internationally renowned violinists and professors such as Pierre Amoyal, Alina Ibragimova, Mihaela Martin, Gordan Nikolic, Feng Ning and Roman Simovic. From April 2021, Coco will commence her study with Professor Kolja Blacher at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.

At the age of ten, Coco made her debut at the Cadogan Hall, London performing as a soloist with the Southbank Sinfonia. Along with numerous solo and chamber music performances at the YMS Menuhin Hall, Coco has performed and appeared in many prestigious venues in the UK including the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Milton Court and Palace of Holyrood (by kind invitation from the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton) as well as in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherland, Spain and Switzerland. After the success of BBC Young Musician 2020, Coco has signed an exclusive agreement with the Orchid Classics to record her debut album due to be released in early 2022. Future concert engagements include a return appearance with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden in July 2021, the Lammermuir Festival in September 2021 as well as a series of debut appearances in her home country Japan in January and February 2022.

Kan Tomita has won numerous international awards and prizes. Since his concerto debut at the Royal Festival Hall, London at the age of 15, he has been in demand both as soloist and chamber musician performing in the UK (Southbank Centre, Barbican, LSO St Luke's, Bridgewater Hall etc.), Europe (Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Romania and Ukraine) as well as Japan; where music critics praised him as “Stunning performer with superb technical accomplishment and poetry” (“Ongaku-no Tomo” Music Magazine, Japan).

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