Reika Sato

Reika Sato

Born in Nagano, Japan, in 1999. Since 2024, she studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music's Telefónica Violin Chair with professor Zakhar Bron. She has been granted a scholarship by Fundación Albéniz.

She began playing the violin at the age of three and studied with Machia Saito, Yasuko Ohtani, Eduard Okoun and Olivier Charlier, at the School of Music of the Tokyo University of the Arts and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. She has also participated in seminars and masterclasses such as Santander Encounter of Music and Academy, Academie d'Orchestre de Musique de Chambre de Paris, Academie d'ete des Rencontres Musicales de Noyers, International Music Weeks Salzburg, and Asago.

She regularly gives violin recitals in Tokyo and Paris and has performed at the ‘Interlude Infini’ concert of contemporary music (as part of a project of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris), and at the Présences Festival in Paris and Rassegna Internazionale di Musica Moderna e Contemporanea in Parma.

She was soloist with Ensemble NEXT, as part of her postgraduate programme, and she also was concertmaster with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Conservatory of Paris. Additionally she performed with the Tokyo Junior Orchestra Society and as a soloist with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Nippon Symphony Orchestra.

She has been awarded at the Osaka International Music Competition, the Marie Cantagrill International Violin Competition and Grumiaux International Violin Competition.

As a student of the School, she is a member of the Prosegur Albéniz and Turina quartets.