Album Introduction: This album starts with the melodious and popular piece - "The First Difference" by Gerdel. It covers various styles from classical to Piazzolla, and is a beautiful movement played by the perfect combination of violin + guitar.

The collaboration between Tomoko Kawada and Shinichi Fukuda makes this album more eye-catching and exciting.

Artist profile Tomoko Kawada (violin) graduated first from Tokyo University of the Arts.

He studied under Takeshi Kobayashi, Kazuki Sawa, Chikaji Tanaka, Koichiro Harada, Masabumi Hori, etc.

Winner of the 5th Spohr International Competition in 1991.

He is active as a violin soloist in many symphony orchestras. He has performed regularly at the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg and received great acclaim.

Won the 2003 ExxonMobil Music Award for Western Instruments.

From September to October, she will be commissioned by the 2015 International Exchange Fund to hold concerts in Turkey and Egypt to introduce and spread Japanese culture.

The CDs released by MeisterMusic for her include: "Vitali: Chaconne/MM-2056", "Mozart: Violin Sonatas/MM-2018", "J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas/MM-2056", "Ernest Chausson: Poems/MM

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Shinichi Fukuda (guitar) Shinichi Fukuda was born in Osaka in 1955. He learned guitar at the age of 12 from the late guitarist Tatsuya Saito.

At the age of 21, he traveled to Europe and studied with Master Albert Poncede from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique in Paris, France, and Master Oscar Gilia from the Conservatory of Music in Siena, Italy.

He has won numerous international competition awards and won the championship at the 1981 Paris International Guitar Competition.

Since then, he has been active on major international stages as a representative of Japanese guitarists, and has won the praise of countless fans at home and abroad with his unique playing.

In May 2008, he went to Koblenz, Germany, to cooperate with the Rhineland State Symphony Orchestra. In July of the same year, he went to Spain to cooperate with the Cordoba Symphony Orchestra, and successfully performed Leo Buono's latest concerto "Concerto? DA".

?Requiem" first public tour.

It is scheduled to perform again with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2011.

In the 30 years since he won the Paris Grand Prix, he has released more than 60 albums.

Among them, MeisterMusic is responsible for the release of "Sol's Works", which uses ancient guitars from the 19th century, and "Seville Fantasia/58th Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival Excellence Award", which has been released since 2002.

His trilogy, the third volume of his Latin American works released in 2006, "Dances of Odalisque" and "Brillante Etudes" in the "Who" collection, and his much-anticipated Bach works have been released since 2011.

series of works.

The first work - "Chaconne ~ Bach Works Collection 1 ~", in the 2007 "2007 Foreign Minister's Commendation Conference", Fukuda Shinichi won the award for his active performance on the international stage.