Shlomo Mintz in Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival

The festival will be held at the Kusatsu Ongaku no Mori Concert Hall and will run for 14 days with the Academy. A concert will be held by professors who have invited world-class musicians as instructors and invited young musicians from Japan and neighboring countries for master classes and chamber music ensemble training. Shlomo Mintz, a leading Israeli violinist, will also participate as a lecturer.

The 43rd Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival

Period August 17th (Thursday) to August 30th (Wednesday), 2023

Venue: Kusatsu Town, Gunma Prefecture

Kusatsu Music Forest International Concert Hall

Tenguyama rest house and surrounding seminar house

Theme "Prague and Vienna: Two Musical Cities - Dvorak and Brahms"

Website https://kusa2.jp/

SHLOMO MINTZ (Violin)

Shlomo Mintz is considered by colleagues, audiences, and critics one of the foremost violinists of our time, esteemed for his impeccable musicianship, stylistic versatility, and commanding technique. He has long been acclaimed as a celebrated guest artist with many of the great orchestras and conductors on the international stage and continues to enchant audiences with his playing.

Born in Moscow and immigrated at 2yrs old to Israel, he studied with Ilona Feher who introduced Mintz to Isaac Stern becoming his mentor. He was also a student of Dorothy DeLay in New York. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with famous artists like Stern, Rostropovich, Zukerman, Perlman, Mehta, Abbado, Giulini, Muti, Temirkanov, Ida Haendel, and Ivry Gitlis, among many others, and played with the best orchestras in the world.

Regularly invited by the most prestigious international competitions, Mintz has served as a jury member of the most prestigious competitions in the world (Tchaikovsky in Moscow, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and the Henryk Wieniawski in Poland). For several years, he was also invited to be jury president of the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition in Japan. From 2002 to 2011, he was jury president of the Sion Valais-International Violin Competition, in Switzerland, and from 2012 to 2018, the Artistic Director of Crans-Montana Classics.