First prizewinner of the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Mexico in 1997, violinist Koh Gabriel Kameda is recognized by international audiences and colleagues alike as one of the next generation’s foremost emerging artists. At the age of twelve Kameda enrolled in the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany, and studied with professor Josef Rissin. In 1993 violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman invited him to come to New York and work with him at the Manhattan School of Music. Koh Gabriel Kameda debuted in 1988 at the age of thirteen in Baden-Baden, Germany, performing the Violin Concerto no.5 by Henri Vieuxtemps with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then he continues to perform throughout Europe, Asia, as well as in North and South America. He has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras around the world including the Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Austrian Radio and Televison Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Zürich Chamber Orchestra, amongst many others. While residing in Germany, Mr. Kameda has also received voracious praise for his extensive artistic activities in Japan, where he has become an important new figure in the classical music scene. In 1990, he made his concert debut in Japan playing two evenings of violin concertos in Tokyo (Suntory Hall) and Osaka (Symphony Hall). His ongoing project, “Music Heals”, a series of concerts in hospitals where for many years Mr. Kameda has been actively volunteering to bring music to patients, was featured by TV Tokyo in a 60-minute television documentary broadcast in 1999, receiving much attention especially from outside the regular concert-hall-going circles. Mr Kameda taught at the Zurich University of the Arts from 2004 until 2009. In 2010 he accepted the position as violin professor at the University of Music Detmold and from 2018 he started to work at the University of Münster, Germany.