Yayoi Masuda

Born in Japan, she began studying violin at the age of 4. 
In 1993 she graduated from the Osaka College of Music with Maestros Soh Tomotada and Sachi Toghi. (Modern Violin). She remained working at the same conservatory until she moved to Italy. She continued studying baroque violin and chamber music in Japan with Maestros Natsumi Wakamatsu and Ryo Terakado. She attended various advanced courses, finishing at the Master Class with Maestros Enrico Gatti, Sigiswald Kuijken, Françoise Fernandez, and Luis Santos Ottavio. She studied and graduated in baroque violin at the Scuole Civiche in Milan and finished studying the two-year course at the Novara conservatory with Maestro Enrico Gatti.
He studied chamber music with Maestros Laura Albini, Lorenzo Ghielmi and Roberto Gini (Laboratory of seventeenth-century music).
1998-2002, he won the scholarship of the Academia Montis Regalis and collaborated with various directors of ancient music (Jordi Savall, Sigiswald and Barthold Kuijken, Enrico Gatti, Christophe Rousset, Hidemi Suzuki, etc..) 2001, he won the audition of Project of Accademia Ambronay in France, he worked as orchestral shoulder with Maestro Christophe Rousset.
He performs concerts, as well as in Japan, in Italy in various baroque music orchestras.

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