About Nana Kawamura

Solo Violin Leader of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra

Nana Kawamura was born in 1974 and started to play the violin in 1978. In 1989, she received the 1st Price "All Japanese Student Competition". In 1997, she obtained the “Soloist-Diploma” at the “Toho Gakuen School of Music” with A. Tatsumi. In 1995, she won the 1st Price of the "Tama Fresh Music Competition" and in 1996, the 2nd Price “All Japanese Competition” together with the "Matsushita Prize" (price of the Jury). From 1997 to 2001, she studied with Igor Oistrakh at the “Koninklijk Conservatorium” in Brussels. In 1998, she was semifinalist of the “Tchaikovsky” Competition in Russia. The same year, she joined the “Saito Memorial Festival Orchestra” where she worked with Seiji Ozawa. From 1999 to 2001, she studied in the “Conservatoire National Supérieur” in Paris with Christian Ivaldi in chamber music. In duo with Kyoko Sasaki, she won in 2000 the First Price of the International Competition of Chamber Music in Guadamora in Spain. In 2001, as the 1st violin if the Crystal Quartet, she won the First Price of the "Concurso Internacional de Música de Camera - Paper de Musica" in Barcelona and began to study with Yuzuko Horigome in Brussels. In 2002, she received a Japanese Cultural affairs Scolarship.

Nana Kawamura is Assistant Concert-Meister in the Opera of La Monnaie (Brussels) from 2006 and Concert-Meister of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra from 1999.