Eimi Wakui was born in Tokyo, Japan and began learning to play the violin at the age of 5. Currently she continues to study at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Professor Pierre Amoyal. Eimi Wakui is a winner and laureate of a number of international violin competitions such as the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, Euro Asia Young International Competition, Oleh Krysa International Violin Competition, Mirecourt International Violin Competition, International Vaclav Huml Violin Competition, Yankelevitch International Violin Competition, Schoenfeld International String Competition and finalist and a special prize winner in the previous edition of the International Violin Competition – Toruń 2016. She has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (Switzerland), Torun Symphony Orchestra (Poland), Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan), Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy (France), Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (Croatia), Lviv Regional Philharmonic (Ukraine), Witold Lutosławski Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (South Korea), Omsk Academic Symphony Orchestra (Russia) and Harbin Symphony Orchestra (China).
PROGRAM:
STAGE I
J. S. Bach – Partita for violin solo No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
E. Ysaÿe – Sonata for violin solo No. 6 in E major Op. 27
N. Paganini – Capriccio solo No. 17 in E-flat major Op. 1
STAGE II – pianist – Katarzyna Wieczorek
L. van Beethoven – Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 in E-flat major Op. 12
K. Lipiński – Polonaise in A major No. 1 Op. 9
M. Ravel – Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in G major M. 77
W. Lutosławski – Subito for violin and piano
STAGE III
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64