Alex Shiozaki, D.M.A.

About Alex

Praised by The New York Times as “spellbinding,” violinist Alex Shiozaki is emerging as a strong advocate for the music of today. At home with music new and old, he has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City to Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara in Japan. Recent highlights include solo appearances with the Sapporo Symphony, the Sendai Philharmonic, and the New York-based AXIOM Ensemble.

Dedicated to chamber music, Shiozaki is a member of the Momenta Quartet, two-time recipient of the Koussevitzky Foundation commission grant. The Quartet has appeared in such prestigious venues as The Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the International Cervantino Festival in Mexico City, and the Ostrava Days Festival in the Czech Republic, as well as at universities including Harvard, Cornell, and Brown. For 2019-2020, the Momenta Quartet joined the faculty of Bates College as Artists-in-Residence. Shiozaki also performs in recital across the United States as the Shiozaki Duo, alongside his wife and pianist Nana Shi. In New York, he appears regularly with the Argento Ensemble, Le Train Bleu, and American Contemporary Music Ensemble. In the summer of 2011, he joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on their tour to Japan.

Shiozaki received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes of the Juilliard String Quartet. His scholarly research was focused on Western music in Japan, specifically that of contemporary composer Somei Satoh. He also received a Master of Music degree from Juilliard, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College. Committed to arts education, he holds teaching positions at the Juilliard School, the State University of New York at New Paltz, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

I give my students the tools to overcome any musical or technical obstacles they may encounter. Their voice remains their own.