Toshiya Eto

Toshiya Eto (江藤 俊哉, Etō Toshiya, 9 November 1927 – 22 January 2008) was a Japanese violinist.

Biography[]

Etō Toshiya was born in 1927 in Toshima, Tokyo.^[1] He started violin lessons in 1932. His teacher was Shinichi Suzuki, and Etō Toshiya had lessons from him until age 12. He entered school^[2] in 1940, and finished in 1944.^[3] From 1943, he took lessons from Alexander Mogilevsky, who taught at .

From 1944 to 1948, Etō Toshiya studied music at . When he was student, he had joined as a quartet member. This quartet member were Toshiya Etō(vl), Akeo Watanabe(Vl), (Va) and Hideo Saito(Vc), that they led the Japanese classic music scene in coming ages. He graduated this school and then continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under the great violinist Efrem Zimbalist. In 1951, he gave his first performance at Carnegie Hall.

Etō Toshiya came back Japan in 1961, and continued his artistic performance and teaching. He taught at Toho Gakuen School of Music from 1963, and Akiko Suwanai and were known as his students. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy and then became a head of the Toho Gakuen School of Music before he died at the age of 80 on June 23, 2008.^[4]

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• Cinii－List of works
• Rutgers University

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