Noé Inui

Violinist Noé Inui has a diverse background that includes training in several different violin traditions. He is also a significant educator. Inui was born in Brussels in 1985. His father was Japanese, and his mother was Greek. Inui started violin lessons at age four, and he earned degrees from conservatories in Brussels, Paris, Karlsruhe, and Düsseldorf (where he has lived since 2006). These varied studies have familiarized him with Franco-Belgian, German, and Russian traditions. Inui began performing early, joining the Trio Carlo van Neste in Brussels in 2005. Then, with cellist Benedict Kloeckner and pianist Vassilis Varvaresos, he formed the Trio Bell'Arte, with which he has continued to perform. Inui did well in prize competitions, taking first prize at the 2005 Sibelius Competition for Young Talents in Helsinki, the Louis Spohr Medal in 2007, and a 2009 Young Concert Artists prize in New York in 2009; the latter brought with it numerous touring opportunities. Inui won the Prix Julius Bär at the 2012 Verbier Festival Academy. In 2015, Inui, joined by pianist Mario Häring, released his recording debut, Identity, on the Ars Produktion label. Inui undertakes tours twice a year and has appeared with such European orchestras as the Braunschweiger Staatsorchester and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester in Germany and the Athens and Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestras in Greece. He has also made repeated tours in Japan, appearing with the Japan Philharmonic, with which he performed Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, at Suntory Hall, and the Nagoya Philharmonic. Inui has continued to play chamber music; he often tours with Varvaresos, and the pair gave a sold-out recital at the Kleine Zaal at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in 2016. Inui recorded the Ysaÿe Six Sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27, landmarks of the Belgian repertory, for Ars Produktion in 2019. In 2023, he moved to Naxos, appearing with the Thessaloniki State Symphony on the album Topos: 20th-Century Greek Orchestral Music.
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