Born in Tokyo, Fumiaki Miura started his musical education with Tsugio Tokunaga at his hometown conservatory before moving to Vienna to carry on his studies with Pavel Vernikov and Julian Rachlin. Since age 16, Fumiaki has been mentored by Pinchas Zukerman. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the prestigious Joseph Joachim Hannover International Violin Competition, being the youngest winner ever. Miura has performed with many orchestras, including Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London,  Mariinsky Theater, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wiener Kammerorchester, Prague Philharmonia, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, NAC Orchestra Ottawa, Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, Warsaw Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, BBC Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta, among others. Fumiaki Miura played under the baton of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Pinchas Zukerman, Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kazushi Ono, Hannu Lintu, Jakub Hrůša and Vasily Petrenko. Regular invitations to international music festivals include the Miyazaki International Music, Ravinia Festival, Julian Rachlin and Friends, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Gyeonggi Chamber Music Festival and Menuhin Festival Gstaad. Fumiaki has also performed at the Auditorium du Louvre and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and at the Wigmore Hall in London. Miura has collaborated with artists like Yuri Bashmet, Itamar Golan, Sunwook Kim, Mischa Maisky, Julian Rachlin, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Jonathan Roozeman, Varvara and Pinchas Zukerman. Since 2018 he has been artistic director of Suntory Hall ARK Classics. His discography includes Prokofiev violin sonatas with the pianist Itamar Golan for Sony Japan, as well as Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky violin concertos with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Hannu Lintu released by Avex-Classics label. Miura performs on the Guarneri del Gesu 1732 violin “Kaston” kindly loaned by Crystco Inc. and its CEO, Mr. Hikaru Shimura. This is his first appearance with the IPO.