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Born in Tokyo, Yuzuko Horigome began playing the piano at the tender age of 4 and took up violin at the age of 5. Her first violin teacher was Ryosaku Kubota, after which she further developed her talent under the expert tutorship of ToshiyaEto, at the Toho Gakuen Academy. In , Horigome won the First Great Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, heralding the beginning of a hugely successful international career.

Horigome is a passionate player of chamber music and a frequent guest at high profile festivals including Marlboro Music, Lockenhaus, Tanglewood and La Jolla. Achieving much critical acclaim by both the mainstream and music press, the Quartet has already completed six tours in Japan.

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During and Horigome shared a concert with Martha Argerich at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, who in turn invited Horigome to tour with her in Argentina, and later in Lugano, Switzerland. Horigome toured Japan between and , performing complete sonatas of Mozart, with the pianist Momo Kodama. From until , she joined Abdel Rahman El Bacha on another tour of both Japan and Europe to perform the complete sonatas of Beethoven.

In early , she replaced a soloist who unexpectedly fell ill just before a concert with the NHK Symphony, directed by Junichi Hirokami. Horigome has worked closely with composers such as Takemitsu, Miyoshi and Yuasa, whose violin concertos were recorded by her. Her collaboration with other Japanese composers is also noteworthy — e. Mochizuki, Gondai, Nodaira, Hosokawa and Okada.