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Ribon AIDAstarting April 2022

Ribon AIDA © Koji Seki

Born on July 5, 1990 in Tokyo and completed “Soloist Diploma Course” of Toho College of Music. AIDA has won the first prize at the 6th Rumania International Music Competition String Section and at the same time selected as the most brilliant player among all the sections. After winning the 81st Japan Music Competition Violin Section, she appeared in the concerts with Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and being invited as a soloist for Tokyo Spring Music Festival, Beppu Argerich Music Festival, Miyazaki International Music Festival, Takefu Music Festival, Saito Kinen Orchestra, and Mito Chamber Orchestra. AIDA has participated in Ozawa International Chamber Academy from 2011 until 2014, and with Seiji Ozawa, she was the soloist and concertmaster. AIDA has been continuously invited by major orchestras in Japan, including Tokyo City Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Kanagawa Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic, Gumma Symphony, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Osaka Philharmonic, Century Orchestra Japan, and Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. Special guest professor of Nagoya University of the Arts & Special Advisor of Tokyo College of Music, conducting major. She is now a special guest concertmaster of City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra since April 2020, and will be Concertmaster of Sapporo Symphony Orchestra from April 2022.