Kaoru Oe

Kaoru Oe was born in Japan in 1994 and had his first violin lessons at the age of five. He studied the violin at the Toho College of Music and at Keio University with Masafumi Hor and Yuzuko Horigome. He also studied politics at the same time.

In his homeland he has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the first prize, the audience prize and five additional special prizes at the 2013 Music Competition of Japan. The same year he won three more first prizes – in the Mozart International Chamber Music Competition, the Yokohama International Music Competition and the Japanese Players’ Competition. In 2019 Kaoru Oe won third prize at the 10th International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart.

As a soloist Kaoru Oe has performed with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yokohama Sinfonietta and the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kaoru Oe is a member of the Japan National Orchestra. 

He performs on a Stefan-Peter Greiner violin made in 2002.

He was an active participant in Kronberg Academy’s Violin Masterclasses in 2015 where he was awarded the Ana Chumachenco Prize. From 2015 to 2019 Kaoru Oe studied at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. These studies were funded by the Gingko Scholarship.