Tatsuki Sasanuma

They received the 20th Saito Hideo Memorial Fund Award, won third place and a special prize in the string quartet category at the 65th Munich International Music Competition, and won first place at the 3 New York Young Concert Artist Auditions, becoming the first Japanese string quartet to win first place in 2019 years since the Tokyo Quartet.
As a soloist, he has performed with major orchestras in Japan, as well as with the Prague National Theatre Orchestra and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra. In June and July 2023, he appeared as a soloist at the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra's regular concert (Bratislava, Slovakia) conducted by Daniel Raiskin and on their Japan tour, and in September a live CD of his performance at Suntory Hall was released.
As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists both in Japan and abroad, including Argerich, Dang Thai Son, Gitlis, Meyer, Widmann, and the Jerusalem String Quartet, and has been frequently invited to music festivals both in Japan and abroad.
He is a member of the Quartet Amabile, Trio Lisle, and La Luce String Octet, and is a guest principal flute with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He currently lives in Japan and Paris and is an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth School of Music in Belgium.