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Upcoming Events:
Harold In Italy with the Victoria Symphony, 2018
Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, with Tori indsay, violin, and the Victoria Symphony, conducted by Joey Pietraroia. April 1, 2017
Past events
-Sitkovetsky's string trio arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations, with Jonathan Crow and Laura Backstrom, summer 2012
-Recording the Brahms g minor Piano Quartet with Lorraine Min, Terry Tam and Laura Backstrom, 2012
-Commission to write a piece for Bass Clarinetist Gordon Clements; premiere scheduled for Oct. 2011
-Franck Piano Quintet, with Lorraine Min, Terry Tam, Julian Vitek, and Laura Backstrom, Eine Kleine Summer Music Festival, 2011
-BC premiere of the Jacques Hetu Viola Concerto, May 2011, with Alain Trudel and the Victoria Symphony
-Favourite Classical/New Music Performer Award at the 2011 Monday Magazine M Awards
-performance of Harold In Italy by Hector Berlioz, with Orchestra Toronto in Feb., 2010, Toronto, Ont.
-Metapop performs "Kink Suite" by Fuse, Alix Goolden Hall, Victoria, 2009
-Metapop performs their takes on the music of Dan Boeckner at Logan's Pub, 2009
-The Victoria Symphony, conducted by Tania Miller, performed Kenji's orchestral arrangement of the Wolf Parade song "I'll Believe in Anything", 2008
-premiere performance of Fuse's "Douce Dame Jolie Variations", by the Goolden Trio, Eine Kleine Summer Music Festival, 2008
-In 2007, Kenji received the cheeky Only In Victoria Award from Adrian Chamberlain at the Times-Colonist:
"Only in Victoria Award -- Victoria violist Kenji Fuse staged Violapalooza, a concert to raise money for [the] Island Biodiesel Co-op. As part of the event, Fuse -- whose 1976 Mercedes runs on sushi restaurant waste oil -- demonstrated to a rapt audience how to make a litre of biodiesel. Then he played his viola." (Adrian Chamberlain, Times-Colonist)-performance of the Fuse Viola Concerto with the Victoria Symphony, in Feb. 2005, with Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting the Victoria Symphony
"...delectable...a splendid performance...", Deryk Barker, Victoria Times-Colonist
Kenji has received numerous awards, from the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the National Youth Orchestra, the Canada Council, and the BC Arts Council.