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伊藤悠貴（チェロ）

ブラームス国際コンクール第1位、ウィンザー祝祭国際弦楽コンクール第1位。フィルハーモニア管弦楽団をはじめとする国内外の主要オーケストラとの共演や、ウィグモア・ホール、ロイヤル・フェスティバル・ホール、カーネギーホールでのリサイタルなど第一線で演奏活動を展開。2025年サントリーホールにて、チェロ協奏曲《カサノヴァ》管弦楽版を作曲者ヨハン・デ・メイ自身の指揮のもと世界初演。2026年にはバッハ無伴奏チェロ組曲全曲演奏会を横浜みなとみらい大ホールで開催し、大きな反響を呼んだ。幅広いレパートリーの中核にラフマニノフ研究を据え、CDに『ラフマニノフ：チェロ作品全集』、著書に『ラフマニノフ考―チェロ奏者から見たその音楽像―』がある。イギリスのチェロ作品の紹介にも務める他、一人の作曲家による作品のみで構成するリサイタルやドイツ・リートなど、チェロ演奏における新たな芸術的意義を追求し続けている。最大手弦メーカー・ラーセン（Larsen Strings）と日本人チェリストとして初めて専属契約。英国音楽家名誉組合賞（2013年）、齋藤秀雄メモリアル基金賞（2019年）、ホテルオークラ音楽賞（2026年）など受賞歴多数。

Yuki Ito (cellist)

Yuki Ito first appeared on international scene as soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra whilst studying at Royal College of Music in London.

Praised by The Strad as “sensational” and for his “commanding technique and masterfully assured delivery of melody”, he has performed around the globe including recitals at Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. In 2025 he world-premiered the Cello Concerto “Casanova” orchestral version at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the composer of the work, maestro Johan de Meij, who had written the “Elegy & Scherzo” (A Tribute to Rachmaninoff) for cello and orchestra specially for Yuki Ito. The following year he gave his first complete Bach Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites recital at Yokohama Minatomirai Hall’s Symphony Hall, which concluded with a full house.

Celebrated instrumentalists with whom he has collaborated include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Xavier de Maistre, David Geringas and Julian Lloyd Webber, to name a few.

In recent years he has been invited to give masterclass by conservatoires such as the Ljubljana Academy of Music, Slovenia, and in 2025 he served as the youngest chairman of the jury at the International Music Competition “FLAME” in Paris.

He centres Rachmaninoff in his wide range of repertoire, which naturally led him to make his world-wide debut CD “Rachmaninoff Complete Cello Works” in 2013 and publish his first book “A Study of Rachmaninoff – His Music as Seen by a Cellist” in 2023, commemorating the composer’s 150th birth anniversary.

He has been honoured with prestigious awards including The Musicians' Company Award (2013/UK), Saito Hideo Memorial Fund Award (2019/Japan) and the Hotel Okura Music Award (2026/Japan) for his services to music.

Yuki Ito plays the “Maragarites” cello by P.A.Testore (Milan, c.1755) as the first ever Japanese official partner cellist of Larsen Strings.