Ryu Goto
Violin

The 22-year old Japanese-American violinist Ryu Goto is an accomplished classical artist with a significant and growing international following.

His career began at age seven, when he made his debut at the Pacific Music Festival playing Paganini's Violin Concerto No.1. Since then, Ryu has appeared as a soloist with international orchestras, ensembles and conductors like the London Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Tan Dun, and Jonathan Nott.

Ryu has performed at many leading classical music venues, including Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, Shanghai Grand Theater, Taipei National Concert Hall, Munich Herkulessaal, and Vienna's Musikverein.

Ryu devotes his time and talent to fostering the development of young musicians across the world. His current efforts include serving as opening recitalist for Juilliard's Starling- DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies for promising young teachers and artists, founding the "Ryu Goto Excellence In Music Initiative Scholarship," a partnership with the NYC Department of Education to foster the development of high school musicians, and working with the Harvard University Bach Society Orchestra.

As a brand ambassador, Ryu has been featured in TV, radio and print campaigns on behalf of the East Japan Railway Company, and from 1996-2006 was featured in his own Fuji TV Show "Ryu Goto's Odyssey," a chronicle of his career and personal growth.

Ryu records for Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics Japan and is currently a senior at Harvard majoring in Physics. Ryu's violin is the 1722 Stradivarius, known as the "Jupiter" on loan to him from Nippon Music Foundation.

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