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General Management (except UK and Japan)
Daishin Kashimoto's CD with Chausson's Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, recorded together with Éric Le Sage and the Schumann Quartet, was released by Sony Classical in October and was promptly voted Album of the Week by BR Klassik radio.
Congratulations to Daishin Kashimoto: his CD with chamber music by Nino Rota received a Diapason d'or award of the year!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Sonata C major KV296
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano No.7 C Minor, Op. 30/2
Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata in G minor
Tōru Takemitsu, Hika (Elegy)
César Franck, Sonata for violin and piano in A major
Daishin Kashimoto, violin
Rafał Blechacz, piano
Toshio Hosokawa, Prayer
Tito Ceccherini, conductor
Toshio Hosokawa, composition
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven, Triple Concerto for piano, violin and violon cello C major op. 56
Alexander Chaushian, violoncello
Franz Schubert Filharmonia, orchestra
Tomàs Grau, conductor
Johannes Brahms, Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor Op. 102
Camille Pépin, La Source d’Yggdrasil
Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Robert Schumann, Symphonie Nr. 4 d-Moll, op. 120
Holly Hyun Choe, conductor
argovia philharmonic
Antonio Vivaldi, Violin Concerto, Op. 8 'Four Seasons'
Sinfonietta Riga
Both as the soloist of international orchestras and as a sought-after chamber musician, Daishin Kashimoto is a regular guest of major concert halls around the globe. The tremendous wealth of experience gained in over 15 years as first concert master of the Berliner Philharmoniker benefits him in his equally adept role as a soloist, where he plays a wide repertoire ranging from classical to new music.
Recently, Daishin Kashimoto performed Bruch's Violin Concerto with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi and appeared with the City of Birmingham Orchestra under the baton of Kazuki Yamada, the Gürzenich Orchestra under the direction of François-Xavier Roth as well as the NDR Radio Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Søndergård. A highlight of 2023 is the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's new violin concerto Prayer with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Paavo Järvi at the Philharmonie Berlin, followed by the Swiss premiere at the KKL Luzern with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Asian premiere at the Suntory Hall with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. The new season also sees the start of his residency as soloist with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim.
Daishin Kashimoto has appeared with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, the Bavarian, Hessian, and West German Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa, Lorin Maazel, Yehudi Menuhin, Paavo Järvi, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, and Philippe Jordan. He can also be heard as a soloist in concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Past engagements include Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante at the Grafenegg Festival and Lucerne Festival, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, and Tchaikovsky's Sérénade Mélancolique and Valse Scherzo at Berlin's Waldbühne under direction of Andris Nelsons.
As a chamber musician Daishin Kashimoto has appeared alongside Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, Leif Ove Andsnes, Alessio Bax, Emmanuel Pahud, Itamar Golan, Tabea Zimmermann, Yefim Bronfman, Claudio Bohórquez and Konstantin Lifschitz, among others. With Konstantin Lifschitz, he also recorded a highly acclaimed CD of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas in 2014. His other recordings include a CD of Brahms’ Violin Concerto with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Myung Whun Chung for Sony Music.
His parents introduced him to various instruments early on, with the three-year-old opting for the violin and receiving his first lessons in Tokyo. After moving to the United States, Daishin Kashimoto was accepted, at the tender age of seven, as the youngest student to ever attend Julliard School's pre-college program; at age eleven, he transferred to the Lübeck University of Music under Zakhar Bron, before becoming a student of Rainer Kussmaul at the Freiburg University of Music from 1999 to 2004. He also had great success in major competitions as a teenager, taking first prize at the Menuhin Junior International Competition in 1993, the Cologne Violin Competition in 1994, and in 1996 at the Vienna Fritz Kreisler and the Long-Thibaud Competitions. Daishin Kashimoto has been the artistic director of the Le Pont Music Festival in Ako and Himeji (Japan) since 2007. He plays on a del Gesu 1744 "de Beriot" kindly loaned by Crystco, Inc. and its chairman Mr. Hikaru Shimura.
2023/24 season
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Duo with Eric Lesage
I
R. Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105J. Brahms: Sonata No.2, Op.2***R. Schumann: Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14J. Brahms: Sonata No. 3, Op. 5
II
J. Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1J. Brahms, A. Dietrich, R. Schumann: F-A-E Sonata***C. Schumann: Three Romances for violin and piano, Op. 22R. Schumann: Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Duo with Alessio Bax
W. A. Mozart: Sonata in B-flat major, K454J. Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 (or E. Grieg: Sonata No. 3, Op. 45)***S. Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
Trio with Eric Lesage and Claudio Bohorquez
T. Takemitsu: Between TidesM. Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor***F. Schubert: Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 100
“[Daishin Kashimoto’s] warm-toned elegance is a perfect fit for Chausson’s voluptuous romanticism. (…) Textures are shimmeringly transparent, especially in the breath of the fresh air that comes with the Fauré-esque siciliano second movement. Compared to Bolet, Perlman and the Juilliards – responsive and virtuosic though they are – there is still greater urgency and drive, and a more youthful energy, always responsive to the broader dramatic arc. Definitely, then, a disc that invites and repays repeated listening.”About the CD release Concert de Chausson - Quintette de Vierne, (Sony Classical, 09/2024), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Eric Le Sage (piano), Schumann Quartett
“[Daishin Kashimoto’s] warm-toned elegance is a perfect fit for Chausson’s voluptuous romanticism. (…) Textures are shimmeringly transparent, especially in the breath of the fresh air that comes with the Fauré-esque siciliano second movement. Compared to Bolet, Perlman and the Juilliards – responsive and virtuosic though they are – there is still greater urgency and drive, and a more youthful energy, always responsive to the broader dramatic arc. Definitely, then, a disc that invites and repays repeated listening.”
About the CD release Concert de Chausson - Quintette de Vierne, (Sony Classical, 09/2024), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Eric Le Sage (piano), Schumann Quartett
Gramophone, Michelle Assay, Nov 2024
“Where others like to show off their physical presence to great effect, Kashimoto favours emotional depth. (...) Always convincing, focussed, with a light-footed bow that makes all shades resonate.”
Mannheimer Morgen, Raimund Frings, 30/10/2023
"Whether as sound or story, Prayer is very listenable (...). Written for Daishin Kashimoto (...), he played Prayer superbly and with dedication, finely partnered, and offered an encore, the ‘Sarabande’ from Ysaÿe’s Sonata IV (for Kreisler)."
Colinscolumn.com, 04/03/2023
"Kashimoto performed the demanding solo (Prayer, T. Hosokawa) with rich colours and a gripping intensity."
Berliner Morgenpost, Mario-Felix Vogt, 03/03/2023
“[Daishin Kashimoto] turns Chausson's ‚Poème‘ into a fascinatingly dark, mysterious character piece. And in the B minor Concerto by Saint-Saens, he unfolds the full, astonishing stylistic range of the piece.“
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Stefan Arndt, 27/05/2022
"[...] His take on Bruch’s First Violin Concerto confirmed Daishin Kashimoto as a force to be reckoned with. Determined not to undersell the Prelude, he and Yamada brought out this music’s sombreness as keenly as its lyricism and, at its climax, a tempestuous energy that found the CBSO at its collective best."
arcana, Richard Whitehouse, 04/05/22
"Kashimoto was simply masterful in his rendering of [Bruch’s Violin concerto] […] his presentation was a demonstration in technical precision, with moments of unbridled brilliance throughout. […] Fabio Luisi and the DSO maintained tight cohesion and even texture in coordination with the soloist. Together they barreled through the temperamental dance-like figures that raced toward a fiery finish."
Texas Classical Review, Richard Sylvester Oliver, 18/02/22
“[Daishin Kashimoto] seems not to need acclimatization and achieves a warm sound right from the beginning, supported by a beautiful vibrato, a wonderful legato without portato, a perfect intonation; there was a lot of note work and that delicacy of never attacking the low notes harshly on the G string, typical of geniuses who do not lose control or need strength to produce great sound.”
A Coruña, Marcos Seoane Vilariño, 05/12/21
“Is interpreting Schubert in such a light-hearted way even permitted? Yes, on a summer evening like this, anyway. What’s crucial, in any case, is the quality of the interpretation. And here everything is just perfect. A light dish but one prepared by star chefs."
rbbkultur, Andreas Göbel, 3/07/20
“[...] Debussy's last completed work. Astonishingly extroverted and athletic, violinist Daishin Kashimoto and Yuja Wang now approach this work together.”
Berliner Morgenpost, Felix Stephan, 12/4/18
“That he is brilliant, dreamily confident and a daredevil was already apparent when Daishin Kashimoto completed his master studies in Freiburg with Rainer Kussmaul [...]. The remarkable thing about this likeable violinist: he has retained his youthful freshness and his willingness to take risks.”
Badische Zeitung, Alexander Dick, June 2015
”It is often visible that all too regularly, good to great interpreters impose their own sound quality on Beethoven, demonstrating their own skills of delicacy, cantabile and agile. What Kashimoto and Lifschitz bring to the ear in closely interwoven dialogues is truly pure Beethoven, in its unruliness and seemingly spontaneous non-conformity - not arbitrary, but a score taken literally.”
Der Tagesspiegel, Isabel Herzfeld, 23/5/14
Daishin Kashimoto is the guest solo violinist for the show and he plays the solo parts of Dvořák’s, Carnival Overture beautifully. It’s jolly, fast paced and captures the atmosphere of a carnival, filling the Royal Concert Hall with a wonderful noise. (…) Next up is Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto (…) – naturally Daishin Kashimoto once again takes the solo violin parts. What a treat!
LeftLion, Kevin Stanley, 3/5/23
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Kashimoto · Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker
Hosokawa: Prayer ·
Schumann: Piano Quartet No. 1 / Daishin Kashimoto, Gilad Karni, Sol Gabetta, Nelson Goerner
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer'
Daishin Kashimoto, Eric Le Sage, Schumann Quartett, 2024, Sony Classical (Sony Music), B0DDCCV6LP
Alpha Classics, 2021
Emmanuel Pahud, Daniel Barenboim, Daishin Kashimoto, Amihai Grosz, Sophie Dervaux, Silvia Careddu;Warner Classics, 2020, 0190295139742
Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser, Eric Le Sage;Alpha, 2020, ALLP588.2
Daishin Kashimoto, Konstantin Lifschitz;Warner Classics, 2014, 0825646349296
Daishin Kashimoto, Eric Le Sage;Alpha, 2013, ALPHA604
Eric Le Sage, Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud, Francois Salque;Alpha, 2011, ALPHA601
Daishin Kashimoto, Myung-Whun Chung, Staatskapelle Dresden;Sony Classical, 2007