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The JapanEse born violiunist and conductor, Shunske Sato (Japaners: 佐藤 俊介), immigrated to the USA at the age of four. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York (teachers: Chin Kim, Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki), Conservatoire National de Région in Paris (teacher: Gérard Poulet) and Hochschule für Musik und Theather in Munich (teacher: Mary Utiger), and the Curtis Institute (teacher: Jaime Laredo). His teachers have also included Eiichi Chijiiwa. As a Baroque violinist, he won the Second Prize and the Audience Award at the 17th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, Germany in July 2010. The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan chose Sato to be a recipient of the New Face Prize in Music Division at its 65th Arts Festival based on his Baroque recital which took place in Tokyo on October 29, 2010. He was a recipient of loan by Nippon Music Foundation and a winner of Idemitsu Music Award in 2005 sponsored by Idemitsu Kosan, one of leading oil companies in Japan.
In August 2015, Shunske Sato made a Canada debut in Montreal with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under direction of Kent Nagano, performing 's Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor (BWV 1041) with a period instrument. The live concert was recorded by Radio-Canada and nationally broadcast on Radio-Canada Télé, on ICI ARTV, on Radio-Canada's music network ICI Musique in September 2015, and on medici.tv in October 2015. In November 2016, 's the Four Seasons live recorded in Kempen, Germany performing Concerto Köln with Sato as a soloist was released by Berlin Classics.