MECENAT
MECENAT (Art and Culture Promotion) 

Violin
Kanon Yasuzuka

Trio Group Certified Mécénat Activities student, currently enrolled in her first year at Toho Gakuen College of Music, having graduated from Toho Girls’ High School. She was awarded First Place at The North International Music Competition 2023, and was a finalist in the 77th All Japan Student Music Competition Tokyo Round. She also secured First Place in the Middle School Division of the String Instrument category at the 22nd Great Wall Cup International Music Competition. Further accolades include Second Place at the 1st Grandir Music Competition National Final, and Second Place in Section III: Youth Division at the 22nd Osaka International Music Competition. She received the “Rising Star Media Award” at the Special Venue Music Award held at Carnegie Hall. She has completed masterclasses at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig (Germany), Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland), George Enescu National University of Arts (Romania), and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria). She has been honored with the “Maple Award” from the Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education and the “Hatsukaichi Sakura Award” from Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. She has performed as a soloist in the NHK Hiroshima Broadcasting Station x Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra ~Dream Project~, and also as a soloist in “The MOST in JAPAN 2021” Hiroshima performance. She played in the opening performance of the 11th Akioota International Music Festival with Bechstein. She has received numerous awards and performed extensively both in Japan and internationally. She has studied violin under Yumino Toyota, Naoko Murakami, Hideaki Nakamura, and Rennosuke Fukuda, and composition under Tomohiro Moriyama.