Date of Birth: 01.02.1992
Instrument: G. B. Guadagnini 1753

Arata Yumi began playing violin by the Suzuki method when he was four and continued his education at the Toho Gakuen School of Music with Akiko Tatsumi. In 2002 he met Zakhar Bron and is currently his student at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland and a scholarship holder of the ROHM Music Foundation. Winner of many competitions including the 57th All Japan Music Competition for Students (Tokyo, 2003), 4^th International Competition for Young Violinists in Novosibirsk (2004), 10th Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski International Young Violinist Competition in Lublin (2006) and 1st Guadagnini Competition in Tokyo (2011). Arata has performed mainly in Japan and Switzerland, at the Violin Festa 2009 in Tokyo and at the Zurich Tonhalle Grosser Saal. He has participated in a master class given by Christian Tetzlaff.

[2011]

Program performed during the 14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (October 2011):

Stage 1:

J. S. Bach: Adagio and Fuga of a Sonata for violin solo BWV 1001
N. Paganini: Capriccio No. 17 Op. 1
H. Wieniawski: Capriccio Op. 10 No. 7 (La Cadenza)
E. Ysaÿe: Third Sonata in D Minor for violin solo Op. 27 Ballade

Stage 2:

F. Schubert: Sonata in A Major (Duo) D 574
H. Wieniawski: Fantasy on Themes from Ch. Gounod’s Opera Faust Op. 20
K. Szymanowski:  La fontaine d'Arethuse of Mythes cycle Op. 30

Stage 3:

W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto in G Major KV 216 (first movement) ; Cadence author: Robert Levin
W. A. Mozart: first movement of Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major KV 364/320d

Lech Bałaban - viola

Stage 4:

H. Wieniawski: Second Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 22
D. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor Op. 77