Sachio Hotokezaka

Sachio Hotokezaka serves as a professor of trumpet at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan. He has performed with orchestras including the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He will bring his trio, J’z Craze, to the Lieksa Brass Week.

• Professor of Trumpet at Musashino Academia Musicae JAPAN

• Joined the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra in his fourth year of university

• Won third prize in the brass ensemble division of the 1st Maurice André International Competition. Joined the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Studied in Munich, West Germany in 1982, under the tutelage of C. Getting, former principal trumpeter of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and performed as an extra with the orchestra. Returned to Japan and rejoined the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Joined the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 1990.  Retired in 2016.