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He was born in Hamamatsu in 1933.
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Koji Toyoda
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Violinists Toshiya Eto and Koji Toyoda were amongst the first students of the famous music educator Shinichi Suzuki after he returned to Japan from studying in Germany. At that time, Koji Toyoda was only three and a half. During World World War II, his studies with Suzuki were discontinued when Koji was evacuated from Tokyo.
Post war efforts of Suzuki to locate his student by radio announcement brought Koji under Suzuki"s care.
He continued his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris where he studied with Professor Benedetti. By this time George Enesco was very old and weak, and died 30 months after he started teaching Koji.
Later, Koji heard Arthur Grumiaux play at a concert and decided to pursue his teaching. He has then become one of Grumiaux" best students, together with another Japanese violinist, Tomiko Shida.
He was the concertmaster of the Berlin Radio-Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 1979.
He was a professor at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin from 1979 to 2000. He was one of the founders and the first music director of the Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy and Festival, and the director of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra. He assumed the Presidency of the Talent Education Research Institute, aka Suzuki method after Shinichi Suzuki died in 1998.
