String Player
SASANUMA Tatsuki
[ Cellist , Japan ]
Born in Tokyo. After graduating from the Faculty of Literature at Gakushuin University, he completed graduate studies at Toho Gakuen School of Music. He is currently a graduate of the elite course at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and is an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth College of Music in Belgium.
He studied under Vaclav Adamira, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Nobuo Furukawa, and Henri Demaruquette, and chamber music under Kazuhide Isomura, Heiichiro Oyama, Nobuko Yamazaki, and Jerome Pernoo.
He has performed with orchestras both in Japan and abroad, including the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, and Slovak Philharmonic.
He has received numerous awards, including first place at the 65th All-Japan Student Music Competition (2011), the Kirishima International Music Festival Award and Music Director Award, the 22nd Hotel Okura Music Award, and the 2021 Saito Hideo Memorial Fund Award.
He has performed both in Japan and abroad with world-renowned artists such as M. Argerich, Dang Thai Son, M. Vengerov, and J. Widmann, and is expanding his scope of activity as a chamber musician. He won third place and a special prize in the string quartet category at the ARD Munich International Music Competition (2016). He is a member of La Luce String Octet, Quartet Amabile, and Trio Rizzle. He is also a CHANEL Pygmalion Artist and Music Dialogue Artist. He is the guest principal cellist of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
He is borrowing a 1771 C.F. Landorfi cello from the Munetsugu Collection.