Still only 22, Mayuko Kamio has already worked with the likes of Zubin Mehta and scored a first prize at the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Only twelve years old at the time, she was the youngest artist ever to win the award. Her real breakthrough, however, came in June of 2007, when she triumphed at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. As a direct result, Kamio saw her bank account swell by $40,000 in cash and she received an invitation by Vladimir Spivakov to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Russian National Orchestra. With a delay of half a year, that victory now also got her in contact with a major record company.

The way things look right now, Mayuko Kamio is playing anything but safe for her upcoming debut. Mixing Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Waxman and Szymanowski, in fact, it sounds like a daring proposition. Here’s the envisioned track list, as provided by Sony BMG Masterworks:

Szymanowski: Mity – 3 Poematy, Op.30
Waxman: Carmen Fantasy
Tchaikovsky: Valse-scherzo, Op.34
Tchaikovsky: Meditation, Op.42, No.1 from Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op.42
Stravinsky: Suite italienne
Chausson: Poème

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