Keiko Gomi, cello – Japan

Cellist Keiko Gomi has studied all over the world at the Kyoto City University of Arts with Noboru Kamimura and Kazutaka Amada; at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Hungary with Onzay Czaba and at the Alfred Cortot Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Julien Paul. In addition, Keiko has studied Baroque cello at the Abbay aux Dames, Jeune Orchestre Atlantique with Ageet Zweistra and Hilary Metzger and the CNR de Paris with David Simpson.

Keiko was awarded first prize at the Faculty Award and Kyoto Music Association Award from the Kyoto City University of Arts, the Governor of Kyoto Prize at the 18th Kyoto Arts Festival and the Baroque Saal Prize as a member of the Kyoto Kammer Orchestra. She also received a full scholarship from Fuji TV KBK for a year’s study at the Ecole Noemal de Musique de Paris, awarded at the 18th Academie de  Musique Francaise de Kyoto.

Currently, Keiko plays with the Baroque groups Quartet Mathis and the Shera Antiquva. She has also performed as a soloist with the Nagaokakyou Chamber Ensemble (director Yuko Mori), the JACACEPT String Chamber Orchestra and the Kyoto City University of Arts Orchestra in Japan.