Sunao Goko
Last update: before 2019
At the age of five, Sunao Goko entered the Toho School of Music Junior department in Sendai and began studying the violin with Prof. Mami Teshigawara.
At the age of ten Sunao received the the First Prize at the 58th All Japan student music competition. The same year, Sunao made his concert debut with the Haydn violin concerto in C at the Young Artist Concert Euro Festival in Prague. In 2006, Sunao won the First prize at the 11th International Yehudi Menuhin Competition for Young Violinists (Junior section) was followed by Gala-concert with.
In 2013 he won First Prize at the first edition of the International Competition “Tibor Varga” in Sion Valais in Switzerland, winning the audience prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the song's contemporary Chinese composer Guo Wenjing.
This competition has joined the Tibor Varga Violin Competition, which was founded in 1967, and the International Violin Competition Sion Valais founded in 2002.
He has played with many prestigious international orchestras such as the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphonic Orchestra, L'Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestra Classica Santa Cecilia, etc.
He has played under Gerhard Bosse, Michiyoshi Inoue, Jean-Jaqcues Kantorow, and Tatsuya Shimono, etc.
Sunao has been invited to several outstanding music festivals, such as La Folle Journee in Tokyo, and a regular guest to the Saito-Kinen Music Festival since 2011.
Currently studying at Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität with Pavel Vernikov.