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|  Biography |
- Mansoon Bow is frequently in demand as both soloist and chamber musician in many major cities in Japan, as well as in the UK where she is currently based. Mansoon was born in Japan of Korean origin. She began studying the violin at the age of three in her native city of Osaka, where she later studied at the Osaka Music High School. It was during this time when she gave a performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in Osaka Naniwa Boy’s Prison, that she finally became convinced of her wish to follow the path of concert violinist. - Mansoon was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London to study for the Bachelors and Masters Degrees, and was the recipient of several major awards. She studied violin under Richard Deakin and Mayumi Fujikawa, and later proceeded to further study on a Research Programme at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester to study about Late Works of Robert Schumann. | | | |
| Mansoon has been awarded prestigious prizes in the Osaka International competition, Classic competition and Soloist competition, won the David Martin/Florence Hooton concerto Prize at the Royal Academy of Music where she was also a recipient of the Poulett Award and the Bloch Award. In 2008, Mansoon won the First Prize and the Audience Prize in The Cavatina Music Competition and most recently, she has been chosen to receive the Byram Jeejeebhoy Prize as well as the Silver Medal Prize which is awarded to students who make the most outstanding contribution through work and performance activities. More recently, she was awarded Full Scholarships; the Derek Butler Scholarship, the Bratton Scholarship and Leverhulme Scholarship. Latest concerts include the complete Schumann Violin Sonatas recital in Osaka, Japan, as well as recitals at Cheltenham Music Festival in the UK, Bristol Cathedral, and in London at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James's Piccadilly, St. Barnabas, Reform Club, Regent Hall, the University of East London Knowledge Dock, Southwark Cathedral, Mandeville Place and Foundling Museum, as well as chamber music concerts in England and Scotland. Mansoon is the innovator of a project 'Music in Churches' in Japan which promotes classical music performances in Churches (still quite a new concept in Japan), thus making music accessible to a wider range of audiences. Since 2007 in association with the University of East London, Mansoon had also been involved in an Empower project which is focused on women’s enterprise development. ♫ Listen ♫ | |
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