Mayumi Fujikawa

Mayumi Fujikawa’s concert activities have taken her as far afield as South America, the Far-East, Israel, Asia and, of course, her native Japan. Her career in the United States began with a spectacular debut at the Lincoln Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy and has since widened to include appearances with virtually all the major US orchestras including Chicago, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cleveland with which she appeared with Lorin Maazel at Carnegie Hall. Other eminent conductors with whom she has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Lawrence Foster, Kyril Kondrashin, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Sergio Ozawa, Andre Previn, Joseph Krips, Kurt Sanderling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Walter Weller and Sir Simon Rattle. She has been guest at Europe’s most prestigious International Festivals, including Aldeburgh, Edinburgh and the London Proms, in addition to Ravinia, Saratoga and Tanglewood Festivals in the United States.

Mayumi Fujikawa’s earliest training began with her father, a self-taught violinist, at the age of 3. At sixteen she attended the Toho Conservatoire in Tokyo studying with the Hideo Saito, Kenji Kobayashi & Tomoyasu Soh. A scholarship from the Alex de Vries Foundation enabled her to work with Franz Wigy, a pupil of Ysaye, at the Flemish National Music Institute in Belgium and sporadically with Leonid Kogan. After winning the Grand Prix Vieuxtemps and her spectacular success in the 1970 Tchaikovsky Competition, she was hailed by David Oistrach as Athe revelation of the competition.

She has recorded the Tchaikovsky and Bruch concerti with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Edo de Waart for Phillips, and the complete sonatas of Prokofiev and Faure for ASV. The Decca CD release of her Mozart concerti with Weller and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has received outstanding critical acclaim, and her Mozart series for BBC Television “Mayumi Plays Mozart” has been broadcast throughout Great Britain, Canada and the United States.

For many years Miss Fujikawa has lived in London, where she is a frequent guest with the London orchestras. It also provides an ideal base for her concert schedule which has taken her to every major European capital. Most recently, in commemoration of 60 years since D day, she appeared as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness, Prince Philip.

Chamber Music has formed an integral part of her artistic life forging musical partnerships with Michael Roll, Jorge Federico Osorio, Craig Sheppard, Gerald Robbins, Yonty Solomon and Richard Markson In 2006 she contributed to the celebration of the 250 ^th anniversary of Mozart’s birth with complete cycles of his violin sonatas and concerti.

Over the next few months her concert commitments will take her to Mexico, Japan and the United States.