Sayaka Shoji undertakes a tour of Japan with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov. She is soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in Osaka (25 January), Yokohama (26 January) and Nagoya (30 January).
Shoji and Temirkanov work together regularly, including the conductor’s recent 75th birthday celebrations in St Petersburg. They have just released a recording together of Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2 — also with the St Petersburg Philharmonic — on Deutsche Grammophon.
Shoji again performs with the St Petersburg Philharmonic and Temirkanov at the Strathmore Music Center, near Washington DC, on 12 March, when she is soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2.
