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Mansoon Bow is a popular soloist and chamber musician. She has won many prizes from competitions including the Osaka International competition, Classical competition in Japan, Soloist competition, Cavatina Competition and the David Martin/Florence Hooton concerto Prize in London.
Mansoon studied with Richard Deakin and Mayumi Fujikawa at the Royal Academy of Music in London on scholarship and received her Bachelor Degree with the Poulett Award and Bloch Award.
Later she gained full scholarships, including the Derek Butler Scholarship, the Bratton Scholarship and Leverhulme Scholarship to continue her study in Master's Degree, where she graduated with Byram Jeejeebhoy Prize as well as the Silver Medal Prize, an award that is given to students who generated the most outstanding contribution through working and performing activities.
Later, Mansoon proceeded to further study in a Research Degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester to study on ''Late Works of Robert Schumann''.
Highlights of her performing career include the complete Robert Schumann Violin Sonatas recital in Japan, as well as recitals, include at St. James's Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Reform Club, Southwark Cathedral, Mandeville Place in London, and various cities in the UK such as Bristol, Cheltenham, and Brighton.
As an orchestral musician, Mansoon has collaborated with celebrated conductors such as the late Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christoph von Dohnányi, Trevor Pinnock, and Edward Gardner.
Mansoon is the innovator of a project 'Music in Churches' in Japan, which promotes classical music performances in churches (a relatively new concept in Japan), with the aim to popularise classical music to the wider range of audience in Japan.
As a violin teacher, Mansoon is passionate and flexible, and has taught students from complete beginners to young professional violinists. Familiar with a wide range of pedagogical methods, she taught with a variety of systems according to the nature of each student, which is a philosophy that she believes to be the most positive way for music teaching.
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