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Lunchtime Recital: Asuka Sumi
Part of the The Courthouse Project Lunchtime Recital - 2022 Series
Add to my Calendar 22-09-2022 13:00 22-09-2022 15:00 36 Lunchtime Recital: Asuka Sumi Asuka Sumi is a violinist based in Leeds and specialising in historical performance practice. She is renowned for her clear style, and lyrical approach. These qualities helped her win the Biber Competition’s 2013 'Romanus Weichlein Prize' in Austria. Under the guidance of her father, the violin pedagogue Yasuro Sumi, she studied historical performance on period instruments, subsequently obtaining degrees from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Asuka has helped form several chamber music groups in Europe. Since moving to Leeds in 2015, she has played in a range of groups such as the Gabrieli Consort, London Early Opera and Leeds Baroque for which she was appointed orchestra leader in 2021. The Courthouse Project, Otley DD/MM/YYYYDetails
The Courthouse Project
Otley Courthouse
Courthouse Street
Otley
West Yorkshire
LS21 3AN
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita no.2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004
Performers
Asuka Sumi – baroque violin
Programme Note
Asuka Sumi is a violinist based in Leeds and specialising in historical performance practice. She is renowned for her clear style, and lyrical approach. These qualities helped her win the Biber Competition’s 2013 'Romanus Weichlein Prize' in Austria.
Under the guidance of her father, the violin pedagogue Yasuro Sumi, she studied historical performance on period instruments, subsequently obtaining degrees from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Asuka has helped form several chamber music groups in Europe. Since moving to Leeds in 2015, she has played in a range of groups such as the Gabrieli Consort, London Early Opera and Leeds Baroque for which she was appointed orchestra leader in 2021.
