Fumiaki Miura, the First Prize Winner of the Hannover International Violin-Competition 2009 was born in Japan in 1993, and comes from a musical family. His father is a concertmaster and his sister is studying the piano. Fumiaki Miura began to play the violin at the age of three. In 2008 he was admitted to the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo as one of the most promising future talents and until recently he studied there with Tsugio Tokunaga. Since the beginning of the 2009/10 winter semester, he continues his studies at the Vienna Conservatory with Prof. Pavel Vernikov. He regularly attends master classes for example with Pavel Vernikov, Jean-Jacques Kantrow and Zakhar Bron.

He has already performed with many orchestras including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Polish Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra.

Performances in 2010 and 2011 include concerts at the Oleg Kagan Memorial Festival in Moscow, at the Festival Julian Rachlin and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Mozartiade Augsburg and Braunschweig Classix Festival in Germany and at the Menton Festival, France. He has been invited by Munich Symphony Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker and will perform in Japan with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

Fumiaki Miura did not only win the First Prize of the Hannover Violin-Competition – he also won the Music Critics’ Prize and the Audience Prize of the 2009 competition and is therefore not only the youngest Winner in the history of the Competition, but also the one with the most prizes.

In both 2003 and 2004 – as an elementary student – Fumiaki Miura won Second Prizes in the All Japan Students’ Music Competition. In 2006, he was awarded the Second Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition for Young Violinists. When participating in the Music Academy in Miyazaki he was awarded as one of the best performers in 2008 and 2009.