I speak with Yosuke Kawasaki, the wonderful Concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada (of which I am a member). He talks about the challenges of staying grounded during this pandemic,  his experiences studying with Dorothy Delay at both Julliard and Aspen festival, the inspriation he found in many of his peers growing up, and the conversation circles around to his role as concertmaster, and advice for young colleagues playing auditions.

Like all my episodes, this is also a video, and the transcript and bonus episodes are also here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e3-s1-yosuke-kawasaki

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Below is a link to Yosuke's chamber music festival in Japan, about which he speaks during our conversation.  The site is in Japanese but an English one should follow shortly. https://www.affinis.or.jp/summer_j/in... https://nac-cna.ca/en/bio/yosuke-kawa...

photo credit: Rémi Thériault