piano

Yevgeny Sudbin
Francesco Tristano
Paul Lewis
Cédric Tiberghien
Janina Fialkowska
Nino Gvetadze

Cembalo

Mahan Esfahani

violin

Alina Ibragimova

Henning Kraggerud

Yume Fujise

viola

Lawrence Power

cello

Alisa Weilerstein
Andreas Brantelid

viola da gamba

Fahmi Alqhai

Guitar

Thibaut Garcia

Clarinet

Annelien Van Wauwe

chamber music

Chiaroscuro Quartet

soprano

Carolyn Sampson

BBC Introducing Classical Artist - Yume Fujise is a Japanese violinist currently living in London. Recently she has been appearing live on BBC Radio 3 In Tune on numerous occasions and has performed in major international venues, such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Suntory Hall (Tokyo) and Forbidden City Hall (Beijing).

Yume has been a prize winner at numerous competitions, including North London Festival D’Addario Competition (2017), The EuroAsia International Competition (2015), Singapore National Teachers Association Competition (2010), and Trinity London Competition (2005). Yume performs regularly as soloist and has appeared with orchestras such as the Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Essex Youth Orchestra, Kingston Chamber Orchestra, Royal College of Music Philharmonic and Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed at music festivals, such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.

After starting the violin at the age of three, Yume was invited to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Lutsia Ibragimova and at the Kunst Universität Graz with Boris Kuschnir. Yume is currently studying her Artist Diploma degree after completing her Bachelor of Music and Masters of Performance at the Royal College of Music, London (RCM) with Mark Messenger and Alina Ibragimova on an ABRSM full scholarship. During her time at the RCM, Yume has already won the 2014 and 2018 Violin Competition and 2015 Concerto Competition and 2017 Concerto Competition.

In 2017, Yume performed Brahms Violin Concerto under the baton of Maxim Vengerov and performed numerous recitals and concertos in Europe and Asia. As well as performing solo, she is an avid chamber musician. She is a frequent artist at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Rolle, Switzerland since 2017. Yume has also recently joined Nicola Benedetti’s quartet. Formed in 2019 May, Yume is also part of the Kleio Quartet.

She is grateful for the generous support of the Soiree d’Or Scholar Foundation, Hattori Foundation (Junior Award & Senior Award) Lee Abbey Award, Henry Wood Accommodation Award, Help Musicians UK, Talent Unlimited, Countess of Munster Foundation and the Takaya Urakawa Foundation.

Yume plays on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1868 which has been generously loaned to her by her generous sponsor, Masahiro Suzuki.