Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Avery-Fisher-Hall, Benaroya Hall Seattle, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center Washington, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Seoul Arts Center, Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Concert Hall, Taipei National Concert Hall, Salle Pleyel and Salle Cortot in Paris, Royal Festival and Wigmore Halls in London, Wiener Musikverein, and Berliner Philharmonie. His performances have been featured on CNN, NPR, Sender-Freies-Berlin, RIAS-Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Korean Broadcasting Station, and WQXR.
He has made recordings for the Albany, New World Records, Composers Recording Inc., Calliope, Bridge, Sanga Records, and Naxos labels. Most recent releases include the String Quartet by Behzad Ranjbaran, and the Mendelssohn Octet with Gil Shaham. Ole Akahoshi has collaborated with the Tokyo String Quartet, Michelangelo Quartet, Keller Quartet, Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Chee-Yun, Syoko Aki, Erick Friedman, Ani Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, Joel Smirnoff, Toby Appel, Lawrence Dutton, Nobuko Imai, Heinz Koll, Jesse Levine, Myung Wha Chung, Franz Helmerson, Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker, Jian Wang, Edgar Meyer, Boris Berman, Robert Blocker, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Garrick Ohlsson, Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, Karl Leister, Frank Morelli, Wolfgang Schultz, David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, William Purvis, Naoko Yoshino, and Hyuna Yu.
He has worked extensively with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Allan Gilbert, Shinik Hahm, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, and Mstislav Rostropovich. He has performed and served as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone NC, Festival des Artes Brazil, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea.
As a guest artist he has been invited to the Seattle Chamber Music Society and the Ensemble for the Romantic Century. He has given numerous master classes, most recently at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the University of Denver, and University of Missouri-Kansas City. Mr. Akahoshi has been serving as a judge for numerous competitions including the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition, the Concerto Competition at UConn, and the William Waite Concerto Competition.
At age eleven, Ole Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He has received the Bachelor’s from Juilliard and the Master’s degree from Yale where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He has received the Artist Diploma from Indiana University under the tutelage of Janos Starker. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. His other mentors were Wolfgang Boettcher and Georg Donderer in Berlin.
Ole Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists. He has been a member of the Sejong Soloists since 1997. In 1997, he was invited by Seiji Ozawa to become a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music since 2004. Mr. Akahoshi joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 1997. He is Assistant Professor of Cello at Yale. |