Hibiki Kobayashi ，Violin
Started playing the violin at the age of two. Impressed by the performance of the Israel Philharmonic in the spring of 14 years old, he went to Israel to study alone. After graduating from the Berlin University of the Arts, he moved to Canada and graduated from the Toronto Royal Academy of Music at the top of his class. At the invitation of CBC Broadcasting Corporation and the University of Moncton, he joined the A. Leblanc Quartet and served as first violinist. Studied under Tomoko Suzuki, Koji Toyoda, Roland Fenivesh, and others, and won first place in the Louvin Music Competition. Debuting at the young age of 16, he has received many awards such as the Noguchi Award, the Jeunesse Musical Award, the Cécile Menard Pomelo Award, and the Opus Award. He has performed with the Radio National de France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, and as a string quartet with the Borodin String Quartet, the Shostakovich String Quartet, and cellist Janos Starker. He has also collaborated with the piano player Dang Thai Son. A Stradivarius was loaned from the Nippon Music Foundation, and a recital of Beethoven's complete sonatas was broadcast on CBC in Canada. In 2009, he performed the Japanese premiere of "Hommage to Haydn / Composed by H. Schmidinger" with the Haydn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adam Fischer at Suntory Hall, and performed two concertos in one night with the Haydn Philharmonic Orchestra in Yamanashi. Played brilliantly and received rave reviews. Since 2005, Visiting Professor at Laval University, Quebec. So far, 4 CDs, a DVD of Ravel's string quartets, and a set of 6 CDs of 2013 Shostakovich String Quartet with all 15 pieces have been released. The A. Leblanc Quartet celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2013, and has held many commemorative concerts, etc., and is facing an even greater leap forward.
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