is a Japanese violinist.
Early life Matsumoto was born in Japan. She lived at Aoba-ku, Yokohama City from age of three. She began to learn the violin from the age of four, and made her debut at Philia Hall three months later.
Career Matsumoto was observed as "extremely gifted and blessed a huge potential capacity" and it was said that she "will undoubtedly grow into a unique musical personality" by Zakhar Bron at seven years old. At the age of nine, she gave her first recital in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of thirteen in 2008, she played and conducted the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra for The Four Seasons of Vivaldi.
At The National Art Center, Tokyo in 2009, she played a smaller violin, which had been used by Mozart in childhood. This attracted attention as the first concert using that particular small violin, which was made in 1746, outside of Austria.
In Japan, Matsumoto studied under Koichiro Harada, a professor of Toho Gakuen School of Music, and Gérard Poulet. She was given a scholarship by the Toho Gakuen School of Music Soloist Diploma course. Matsumoto studied under professor Boris Kuschnir, Boris Brovtsyn and others at Konservatorium Wien and University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
In 2009-2011 Matsumoto got a scholarship of Yamaha Music Foundation. In 2012-2013, she was also awarded a music scholarship from The Meiji Yasuda Cultural Foundation. She studied in Vienna for three years starting in the fall of 2014 as a trainee of an up-and-coming artists overseas study program of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in three years, and graduated Master of Arts with the highest grade in 2019. In 2022, she received her second time bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University biology lab, researched the effects of violin playing on animal behavior. In 2023, she received Concertmaster Artist Diploma from Academia Stauffer Concertmaster in Cremona, Italy.
Since 2024 she has been a scholarship student at Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, US and performing as a soloist both in US and Japan.
Awards 2006 - (Poland), Junior Division, Second Prize (youngest) 2007 - All Japan Students Music Competition, Elementary School Part, First Prize (the highest score in all parts) 2009 - Yehudi Menuhin Award (highest award) - Kronberg Academy (Germany) 2009 - IMA Music Awards - Ishikawa Music Academy 2010 - ABC Music Prize (youngest)
2015 - Fidelio Competition. Winner (Vienna, Austria) 2016 - International Chamber Music Competition Città di Pinerolo e Torino Città metropolitana. 3rd Prize (Italy) 2016 - Osaka International Competition Duo Category, 1st Prize (Japan) 2016 - The Art of Duo, Boulder International Chamber Music Competition. 3rd Prize (US) 2023 - Salzburg-Mozart International Chambermusic Competition in Tokyo 3rd Prize (Japan) 2024 - Dean Award (Japan) 2025 - Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, Winner (US)
Recitals Matsumoto opened the following recitals in Japan.
2009-04 - Tsuda Hall (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) 2011-03 - Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall 2011-04 - Philia Hall 2011-07 - JT Art Hall Affinis ... Dolphin Trio 2011-09 - Musashino Civic Cultural Hall ... Piano: Eliane Reyes 2011-10 - Nakano ZERO, Planetarium 2011-11 - Nakano ZERO, Large Hall 2012-05 - Act Tower Music Workshop Hall 2014-11 - Philia Hall - Aoba-ku 20th Anniversary Concert 2018-09 - Takashi Sato & Hiroka Matsumoto Duo Recital 2018-09 - Takeshi Takehashi & Hiroka Matsumoto Duo Recital
Concerts In Japan
2008 - Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Kazumasa Watanabe, Yoko Matsuo) - Suntory Hall, Great Hall 2008 - Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Naoto Otomo, Norichika Iimori) - Suntory Hall, Great Hall 2009 - Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri) - Showa Women's University Hitomi Kinen Kōdō ... "Untitled Concert" 2009 - Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Yoko Matsuo) - Kanagawa Prefectural Civic Hall, Great Hall 2010 - Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Norichika Iimori) - Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall 2010 - Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (conductor: Michiyoshi Inoue) - Ishikawa Ongakudō 2011 - Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Shigeo Genda) - The Symphony Hall ... ABC Fresh Concert 2011 - Yamaha Music Scholarship Concert, Vol. 2 - Yamaha Hall 2011 - New Japan Philharmonic (conductor: Jonathan Schiffman) - Musashino Civic Cultural Hall 2012 - Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor: Mitsuhashi Keiko) - Suginami Public Hall, Great Hall 2019 Barrier-free concert—Let's Come Together—István Kohán & Hiroka Matsumoto Joint Concert. Philia Hall
Outside Japan
2008 - Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra - Budapest 2010 - subscription concert (conductor: Kálmán Berkes) - Hungary
Filmography
TV Video.
Gyor Philharmonic Orchestra subscription concert was broadcast in Slovakia on 2010-12.
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