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Violinist Saeka Matsuyama is a winner of Astral Artists’ 2006 National Auditions. Astral recently presented her Philadelphia concerto debut at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in which The Philadelphia Inquirer praised her “bracing interpretation” of Brahms’ Double Concerto (with Symphony in C and Astral graduate cellist Clancy Newman). This season Astral presents Ms. Matsuyama’s Philadelphia recital debut and features her in a program of chamber masterworks. The Japanese native recently appeared as concerto soloist with many of Japan’s leading orchestras, including the Tokyo and Shin Nippon philharmonics, and the Sapporo Symphony and Osaka Philharmonic orchestras, among others. The recent recipient of an S&R Washington Award, she was also the winner of the 2005 Juilliard/Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra Soloist Auditions and has received top prizes from the Queen Elisabeth, Sendai, Hannover, Carl Nielsen, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Kobe Newspaper/Matsukata Hall competitions, among many others. She has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Academy, the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena, and the Aspen Music Festival. Ms. Matsuyama began violin studies at the age of two. She moved to New York from Japan at nine, when she began studies in Juilliard’s Pre-College program; she went on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree, a Master of Music degree, and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where she currently serves as a teaching assistant for Ronald Copes.