Tatsuki Sasanuma & Théo Fouchenneret
Biographie Tatsuki Sasanuma & Théo Fouchenneret
Tatsuki Sasanuma
won third place and a special prize at the 65th Munich International Music Competition in the string quartet category. In 2019, at the Young Concert Artists auditions in New York, he won first place, becoming the first Japanese string quartet to receive this award in 50 years, since the Tokyo Quartet.
He won first place at the 65th Japan Student Music Competition, second place at the 12th Tokyo Music Competition, and received an honorable mention at the 83rd Japan Music Competition, among other national and international competitions.
As a soloist, he has performed with leading Japanese orchestras such as the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Prague National Theater Orchestra and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Martha Argerich, Haruko Ueda, Đặng Thái Sơn, Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis, Mischa Maisky, Emmanuel Pahud, Jörg Widmann, and the Jerusalem Quartet, and has performed with ensembles such as the La Luce string octet, the Amabile Quartet, and the Rizzle Trio. He is also a Chanel Pygmalion and Music Dialogue artist. He completed his studies at the NHK Symphony Orchestra Academy.
He received the Gakushuin University Cultural Activity Award, and his recital at that university was honored by the presence of the Emperor and Empress of Japan. He has also won numerous other awards, such as the Kirishima International Music Festival Prize and the Music Direction Prize, as well as the 22nd Okura Hotel Music Prize.
He graduated with honors from Toho Gakuen Girls’ High School (Music Department). He then completed the soloist diploma program at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and earned a bachelor’s degree in German Cultural Studies from Gakushuin University. After completing his graduate studies at Toho Gakuen University of Music, he continued his studies as a scholarship recipient in the graduate program at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, and is currently enrolled in the elite program. He studied under Václav Adamíra, Nobuo Furukawa, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Henri Demarquette, and Jérôme Pernoo, and also studied chamber music with Kazuhide Isomura, Heiichiro Oyama, Nobuko Yamazaki, and the Jerusalem Quartet.
In 2019, he released his debut album, *Words of Affection*, on Nippon Columbia, which was selected as a recommended release by *Record Art* magazine.
In 2022, he organized concerts featuring Bach’s suites for solo cello in Fukuoka and Tokyo. In June and July 2023, he performed as a soloist at the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra’s regular concerts conducted by Daniel Raiskin (in Bratislava, Slovakia) and during the orchestra’s tour of Japan. In September, a live CD of his concert at Suntory Hall was released. He is also a guest principal cellist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
He plays a 1771 C.F. Landolfi cello (Munetsugu Collection).
Théo Fouchenneret
won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition in November 2018 before being named “Best New Instrumental Soloist” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. That same year, he won first prize as well as five special prizes at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition with the Messiaen Trio.
Acclaimed by major concert halls and international festivals, he also performs with internationally renowned musicians such as Victor Julien-Laferrière, François Salque, Lise Berthaud, Svetlin Roussev, Roland Pidoux, and Renaud Capuçon…
