Recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “technical solidity, perfect intonation, and large edgeless tone of buttered-rum quality”, cellist Ole Akahoshi from Germany has concertized on four continents in recitals as well as soloist with orchestras, such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin, Symphonisches Orchester Berlin, and the Czechoslovakian Radio Orchestra. Winner of numerous competitions including the Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert, Mr. Akahoshi’s performances have been featured on CNN, NPR, Sender-Freies-Berlin, RIAS-Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Korean Broadcasting Station, and WQXR. He is also recipient of the fellowship award from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi. Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Carnegie Hall, Avery-Fisher-Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall and Tsuda Hall in Tokyo, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Wigmore Hall in London, and Berliner Philharmonie. He has made recordings for the Albany, New World Records, Composers Recording Inc., Calliope, Bridge, and Naxos Labels.
Mr. Akahoshi has collaborated with the Tokyo String Quartet, Sarah Chang, Erick Friedman, Syoko Aki, Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Joel Smirnoff, Chee-Yun, Toby Appel, Lawrence Dutton, Jesse Levine, Edgar Meyer, Boris Berman, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Garrick Ohlsson, Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, Karl Leister, Frank Morelli, David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, William Purvis, Myung Wha Chung, Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker, Wiener Philharmoniker principal flutist Wolfgang Schultz and principal violist Heinz Koll, and harpist Naoko Yoshino.
He has served as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Camp Encore/Coda, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Festival des Artes de Itu Brazil, and at the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, where he gives classes every summer. Also he has been serving as a judge of numerous competitions including the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition, and the William Waite Concerto Competition.
At age eleven Mr. Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He has received the Bachelor’s from Juilliard and the Master’s degree from Yale where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He has also received the Artist Diploma from Indiana University where he studied with Janos Starker. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. His other mentors were Wolfgang Boettcher and Georg Donderer.
Mr. Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists in New York. He has been a member of Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Orchestra since 1998 and the Tokyo Nomori Opera. Mr. Akahoshi is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and he has been on the faculty of the Yale University School of Music since 1997.
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