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Eiichi Chijiiwa (violinist) Eiichi Chijiiwa was born in Tokyo in1969. He began playing the violin and the piano at the age of five. After studying music at the National University of Fine Arts and Music of Tokyo, He came to France with a French Government scholarship and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he graduated with Premières Prix for violin and chamber music. During his postgraduate studies at the Conservatoire, he worked with Isaac Stern Philippe Hirschhorn, Jean Sulem, and Walter Levin. He has been a prizewinner at several international string quartet competitions, and performed both as a soloist and as a member of the Diotima Quartet in many festivals throughout the world. including the Berliner Festwochen, Aldeburgh, Ars Musica(Brussels), Musica (Strasbourg), Cervantino (Mexico), Kuhmo (Finland), and the Orangerie de Sceaux (France). In Paris, he has performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Auditorium du Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the festival d'Automne, and the Cité de la Musique and Radio France concerts. He gave the world première of Marc-André Dalbavie's Violin Concerto at the Donaueschingen Festival with the Orchestre National de France under Lothar Zagrosek,and the French premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet with the orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach. Since February 1998, Eiichi Chijiiwa has been co-principal violin with the Orchestre Paris. He plays Omobono Stradivari gFreichehviolin of 1740 |
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