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Thaleia Quartet

Kako Yamada, violin
Hiromi Futamura, violin 
Sakuya Watabe, viola
Miu Ishizaki, cello


Formed in 2014 with students of Tokyo University of the Arts. They were awarded the 3rd prize at the Salzburg-Mozart International Chamber Music Competition 2015, the 1st prize at the 4th Munetsugu Hall String Quartet Competition, the Guest Jury Special Prize at the Tokyo Geidai Art Fest 2022,a semi-finalist at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition 2023 and awarded the Bordeaux String Quartet Festival Prize.

The quartet received the scholarship from the Matsuo Academic Foundation and some japanese foundations. They were a member of the 5th Fellowship of the Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy and studied under Nobuko Yamazaki and Kazuhide Isomura.