Seiji Okamoto

Seiji Okamoto VIOLIN Japanese violinist Seiji Okamoto was born in 1994 and learned to play the violin at the age of three. He initially studied at Tokyo University of the Arts with Kazuo Nakazawa, Gérard Poulet and Kazuki Sawa, and also gained instruction and inspiration from Pierre Amoyal and Herwig Zack during this time. Since 2017, he has lived and studied in Berlin, where he is currently training at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Antje Weithaas. In 2014, Okamoto won first prize and the audience prize in the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, becoming the first Asian winner of the competition’s “Violin” category. He then went on to win second prize in the 2016 International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań. In 2021 he won first prize and the speci