Taichi Akutsu
Violin Instructor

SoBe Music Institute
2100 Washington Avenue
(Carl FIsher Clubhouse)
Miami Beach, Fl 33139
305 674-9220 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• SoBe Music Institute (Miami's Institute for Performing Arts) Violin Instructor (2007 - current)
  
  
• Manhattan School of Music Summer Camp (2005-2007)
• Teacher's Choice Suny Music Studio in New York (2005-2007)
  

EDUCATION

• Manhattan School of Music: M.M. in the Orchestral Performance Program [2005]

• Mannes College of Music: Professional Studies [2002]

• Tokyo College of Music (Japan): B.M. Violin Performance [2000]

TEACHERS
Major Teachers

• Glenn Dicterow /Lisa Kim /Yoko Takebe [2003-2005] MSM
• Anna Rabinova [2002-2003] New York Philharmonic
• Lewis Kaplan [2000-2002] Bowdoin Summer Music Festival/ Mannes

Masterclasses
William Preucil, Glenn Dicterow , Ilya Kaler, Chikashi Tanaka, David Halen

ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE

• Fellow [2006-2007] New World Symphony Fellowship Program
• Principal Second [2006] New World Symphony Orchestra
• Concertmaster [2004-2005] Manhattan School of Music Orchestra
• Principal Second [2004/2005] Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar Orchestra
• Associate Concertmaster [2001-2003] Mannes Symphony
• Principal Second [2001-2003] Hunter Symphony (New York )
• Concertmaster [2000] Tokyo College of Music Symphony Orchestra (Japan)

CONDUCTORS

• Michael Tilson Thomas, Sergei Commissiona, Kurt Masur, Samuel Wong, Otto-Werner Muller, David Hayes, Gerard Schwarz, Gunther Schuller
  

SOLO EXPERIENCE

• Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia [2005] Mozart Serenade in D

OTHER PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

• Co-founder, Kokolo Ensemble String Orchestra in New York
• Violin Recital at Hunter College, City University of New York(2007)

AWARDS
           Raphael Bronstein Award [2005] Manhattan School of Music

BIO

Taichi Akutsu is a violinist and an educator living in Miami Beach, Florida in the United States. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and began his violin lessons with Suzuki Method at age 5. He took his undergraduate degree at Tokyo College of Music, and got his professional studies diploma in violin performance at Mannes College of Music in New York City. He received his master of music degree in orchestral performance at Manhattan School of Music where he studied with New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow.

With the start of the 2006-2007 season, Mr. Akutsu joined the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson-Thomas. He has served concertmaster of the New World Symphony (rotation), Manhattan School of Music Orchestra under the baton of Sergiu Commisiona, and as a second violin principal of Kurt Masur Conducting Seminar Orchestra.

Mr. Akutsu made his violin recital debut at Lang Recital Hall at Hunter College, City University of New York in 2007. He has also appeared as a soloist with Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia, performing Rondo by W.A. Mozart. He has been participant of numerous music festivals including Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Maine and Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. 

As an educator, Taichi Akutsu has been on a faculty of SoBe Institute of Arts since 2006 (violin and children's piano). As a faculty coordinator of SoBe, he organized variety of concert series such as Open Friday and Inside Music. He has also served as a violin, chamber music and orchestra faculty of Manhattan School of Music Summer Music Camp for public school students, as well as a violin teacher at Robert Louis Stevenson School (NYC Public School- PS183).His article "Sage Advice of Taichi Akutsu" was published in Strings Magazine.

Mr. Akutsu is a recipient of Raphael Bronstein Award in 2005- an award for an outstanding violinist demonstrate great promise as a performer, and in whom can also be seen dedication to carrying on the pedagogical devotion.