Sawako Kosuge

Sawako Kosuge was born in Tokyo and received her first musical education at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Tokyo. After gaining orchestral experience in Japan, including with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, she came to Germany in 2018. In 2021, she completed her master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig with Prof. Henrik Hochschild, and continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden with Prof. Ralf-Carsten Brömsel. In the seasons 21/22 and 22/23 Sawako Kosuge was an academist of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2023 she plays in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg.