AKIHO NISHIMURA
AKIHO NISHIMURA (Giappone)
1st Prize 2022
She began playing the piano at age 4 before discovering the clarinet at age 10 in a school club in Japan. She performed with the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the 8th edition of “I am a SOLOIST” and with the Okayama City Orchestra in the 49th concert of the NIIGATA Orchestra Festival. Graduated from the Tokyo College of Music, she has continued her studies in France since 2018: first at the Versailles Conservatory, then at the Lyon Conservatory and finally at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Paris, where she continues her master’s studies. He won the Giuseppe Garbarino Special Prize at the Chiavari International Competition 2020, the 2nd Prize at the 1st Guy Deplus International Clarinet Competition, the 1st Prize at the 18th “Saverio Mercadante” International Clarinet Competition and the 2nd Prize at the 21st ° “Città di Carlino” International Clarinet Competition. Among the numerous invitations from orchestral groups, mention is made of the one received from the prestigious Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France. Among his teachers and mentors are Shuji Ashida, Noriyuki Kumazawa, Shoji Togama, Kenji Matsumoto, Chikako Kondo, Philippe Cuper, Hugues Soualhat, Jérôme Comte, Pascal Moraguès and Pierre Genisson as well as Alain Billard as bass clarinet teacher.
