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Congratulations to Daishin Kashimoto: his CD with chamber music by Nino Rota received a Diapason d'or award of the year!
Camille Saint-Saëns, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Ernest Chausson, Poème for violin and orchestra Op. 25
Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Daishin Kashimoto, violin
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor
Both as the soloist of an international orchestra and as a sought-after chamber musician, Daishin Kashimoto is a regular guest of major concert halls around the globe. In his decadelong role as first concert master of the Berliner Philharmoniker, this tremendous wealth of experience also benefits him in his equally adept role as a soloist, where he plays a wide repertoire ranging from classical to new music.
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 and Lucerne Festivals, 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, Éric Le Sage, 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. Daishin Kashimoto plays on a Guarneri del Gesu 1744「de Beriot」violin kindly loaned by Asuka Corporation and its chairman Mr. Hikaru Shimura.
2020/21 season
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“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
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Kashimoto · Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker
Schumann: Piano Quartet No. 1 / Daishin Kashimoto, Gilad Karni, Sol Gabetta, Nelson Goerner
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 'Kreutzer'
Emmanuel Pahud, Daniel Barenboim, Daishin Kashimoto, Amihai Grosz, Sophie Dervaux, Silvia Careddu;Warner Classica, 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