1. Biography Yuzuko Horigome began playing the piano at the age of four and the violin at the age of five with Ryosaku Kubota. In 1975 she studied under Toshiya Eto and graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1980. In the same year, she became the first Japanese to win first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, Belgium. This led her to worldwide acclamation, bringing invitations from all over the world, particularly from European countries, to appear with leading orchestras and to give recitals. In no time, she joined the ranks of other accomplished performers. 2. Career First prize at the Queen Elisabeth competition 1980, Yuzuko Horigome pursues a brilliant international career. She is regularly invited to occur with the greatest orchestras of the whole world. Between them the Phiharmonic of Berlin, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Scala of Milan, the R.A.I. Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra , the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (tour in Canada, Japan and Great Britain), the Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg (tour in Italy and Japan), the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony (festival of Japan in Great Britain and world round during which a concert in New York at the United Nations Day in 2001 and broadcastings through the whole world). During these events, she joints her talent with prestigious chiefs like Claudio Abbado, Andre Previn, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Riccardo Chailly, Erich Leinsdorf, Seiji Ozawa, Ivan Fischer, Sir Simon Rattle, Alexander Dimitriev, Vladimir Ashkenazy or Sandor Vegh. The chamber music is another facet of her exceptional talent shared with internationally renown artists as Martha Argerich, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Pascal Rog�, Jean-Marc Luisada, Wolfgang Manz, Gidon Kremer, Philippe Graffin, Thomas Zehetmair, Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Mischa Maisky, Antonio Meneses and many others. Yuzuko Horigome is and was invited by a lot of international festivals like Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Tanglewood, Musicfest La Jolla California, Lugano or Buenos Aires. As guest professor at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and chairman of different Master classes, she transmits her art to promising students of any nationalities. Soloist more in sight in Japan, she devotes rounds to it many months per year. Yuzuko Horigome plays currently a Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu from 1741. 3. Recent activities Tour in Buenos Aires, Lugano and Tokyo with Martha Argerich Concert with the Czech Symphony Orchestra directed by Vladimir Ashkenazy Recital with Momo Kodama : integral of the Mozart sonatas Recital with Abdel Rahman El Bacha : Beethoven's sonatas planned between 2007 and 2009 in Japan Carte blanche in Tokyo and Kyoto from 2006 to 2011 with each year a new solo violin score of well known Japanese composers ("22 century organisation") Recording in April 2008 realises for the label Talent Record : three concertos of Lalo with the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Marco Guidarini