Yuzuko Horigome

First prize winner in the 1980 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition Yuzuko Horigome (born 1957) has brought her virtuosity and rich musical mind to audiences all over the world.
She has also appeared as a soloist with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the London Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Scala di Milano, Czech Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and NHK Symphony.
She has shared her passion for music on stage with exceptional artists like Rudolf Serkin, János Starker, Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Charles Neidich, Jean-Marc Luisada and Abdel Rahman El Bacha. Horigome's prominent recordings are Mozart Complete Concertos with Sándor Végh and Camerata Academia, Violin Works (series no.1 - 5) as well as her recent recording Brahms Concerti with the Czech Philharmonic.
Based in Belgium as a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Yuzuko Horigome has been active in masterclass projects. She annually gives masterclasses in Cassero, Italy, and Trinity College Cambridge, UK. Horigome herself studied under Mr Toshiya Eto at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. Now she is often on the jury at numerous international competitions including the Sendai International Music Competition, where she chairs the jury.
When she had just graduated, she was selected for the Academy of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. After just two months she was hired as second flutist and alto flutist at the orchestra.

In addition to her work for the orchestra, Julie Moulin is active as a chamber musician. She is a member of Duo Yati, together with Bruno Bonansea (solo clarinetist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra) and of the wind quintet Quintette K, which has won several international prizes. She is also the founder and artistic director of the chamber music festival Les Echappées Musicales du Médoc in south-west France.

Julie Moulin is the alto flutist of the famous Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Since 2013, she has been teaching – together with Juliette Huren and Wim Steinmann – at the CODARTS Conservatory in Rotterdam, and she regularly gives master classes abroad.