Ayano Shigematsu
| № Lot | 13 |
|---|---|
| Performance Time Round 1 | 19.10 17:40 – 18:05 |
| Points Round 1 | 15.67 |
| Performance Time Round 2 | 22.10 15:00 – 15:45 |
| Points Round 2 | 14.43 |
| Performance Time Round 3 | |
| Points Round 3 |
- Johann Sebastian Bach Ciaccona from Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
- Niccolo Paganini. A caprice No.23 Op. 1
- Henryk Wieniawski. An etude No.7 Op. 10, “L’Ecole Moderne”
- Fritz Kreisler. Recitativo and Scherzo, Op. 6
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The first movement of the Violin Concerto No.1 in B major, K. 207
- Maurice Ravel Tzigane
- Alfred Schnittke Sonata No. 1
- Yevhen Stankovych. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra N. 5 (2017) “Question without Answer” Dedicated to Oleh Krysa
- Dmitri Shostakovich. Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op. 77
Ayano Shigematsu was born in 1997 and received her first music lessons at the age of three. From age fourteen she is playing under Professor Katsuya Matsubara at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She graduated from the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music whithin Tokyo University of the Arts, and since 2016 she has been continuing her studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, and since 2019 she is playing under Professor Vasilij Meljnikov at the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana.
She has won numerous awards in international competitions in Japan, among them 1st prize at the 9th Yokohama International Music Competition, 2nd prize at the Osaka International Music Competition, and 2nd prize at the 11th Romanian International Music Competition at the Romanian Embassy in Japan. She was a finalist at the 8th International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists, Category III, and won the special prize for best interpretation of a work composed after 1950. By the age of eighteen she had performed four recitals in Romania and Slovenia, and by age 20 recitals in Tokyo and Sapporo. She is the recipient of an Aoyama Music Foundation scholarship.
By age thirteen she was serving as concert mistress in the Tama Youth Orchestra, and at fifteen for the Beethoven Symphony No. 9 at the Musikverein. At thirteen she played Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the orchestra.
She has studied in master classes under Pierre Amoyal, Chiara Banchini, Gerard Poulet, Oleh Krysa, Reiko Watanabe, and Pavel Vernikov.
