Shizuku Tatsuno

Cellist Shizuku Tatsuno is from Japan. In 2008, she won an Award for Excellence in the Kumanichi Student Music Competition and a year later in 2009, won First Prize. She went on to win an Award for Excellence in the Miyanichi Music Competition in 2010 and in the same year also received an Award for Excellence at the Minami-Nihon Music Competition, First Prize in the Kumanichi Student Music Competition, and the Grand Prize in the Kumanichi Grand Prix. In 2011, she co-performed in the 1st JASTA Fresh Concert both in the string orchestra and as a soloist.

She held her first recital in 2012 and from 2013-2018 she held the Marie & Shizuku Duo Recital in Japan. She has also performed with the Harlem Quartet at Royal College of Music.

Shizuku graduated from the Yehudi Menuhin School, U.K., in July 2016. She is studying at the Royal College of Music since 2016 supported by a scholarship from the Royal College of Music: Thomas Llewellyn Cottrell.

She is currently studying under the tutelage of Thomas Carroll and Raphael Wallfisch.