Mayumi Seiler - violin
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mayumi Seiler was born in Osaka, Japan and grew up in Salzburg, Austria where she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Her parents are pianists and her three older sisters are also professional string players. She established her professional international career while living in London. Now living in Toronto, she is married to David Kent (Timpanist, Toronto Symphony Orchestra) and has one daughter.

Plays a 1740 Guadagnini.

Influencing Teachers: Sandor Vegh

Performer:

• Soloist. with orchestras including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Philharmonic, Moscow Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
• Seiler String Quartet (with sisters Nami, Yuri and Midori).
• Axelrod String Quartet. (With Marilyn McDonald, violins Steven Dann, viola and Kenneth Slowik, cello. Features Stradivarius instruments from the Smithsonian Institution.)
• Artistic Director of Via Salzburg series at CBC Glenn Gould Studio.

Teacher:

• University of Toronto
• Royal Conservatory of Music
• Master Classes.

Recordings:

• Concertos: Beethoven, Haydn and Mendelssohn (Virgin Classics)
• Sonatas: Debussy, Ravel, Janacek (JVC Victor)
• The Schubert Ensemble of London, other chamber and solo works.

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Updated November 27, 2000