Ayana Tsuji

Violinist Ayana Tsuji established herself as one of Japan's most promising young instrumentalists after winning six prizes at the 2016 Montreal International Music Competition. Already a competition veteran by that time (she was just 18), Tsuji was signed soon afterward to the major Warner Classics label. Tsuji was born in Gifu, Japan, in 1997, and grew up in Ogaki. She started playing the violin at age three. Her first teacher was her father, Masahiro Tsuji, who started at the same age and was a student of Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of the Suzuki Method in which Ayana was a...