Cellist Ole Akahoshi from Germany enjoys a concert career before audiences in North and South Americas, Asia, and Europe in recitals, chamber music concerts, and as soloist with orchestras, such as the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Symphonisches Orchester Berlin, and the Czech Radio Orchestra. He has won numerous competitions including Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert and is the recipient of the fellowship award from Charlotte White's Salon de Virtuosi. Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Avery-Fisher-Hall, Benaroya Hall Seattle, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center Washington, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Seoul Arts Center, Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Concert Hall, Taipei National Concert Hall, Salle Pleyel and Salle Cortot in Paris, Royal Festival and Wigmore Halls in London, Wiener Musikverein, and Berliner Philharmonie. His performances have been featured on CNN, NPR, Sender-Freies-Berlin, RIAS-Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Korean Broadcasting Station, and WQXR. He has made recordings for the Albany, New World Records, Composers Recording Inc., Calliope, Bridge, Sanga Records, and Naxos labels. Most recent releases include the String Quartet by Behzad Ranjbaran, the Mendelssohn Octet with Gil Shaham, the Solo Partita by Ezra Laderman, and works by Tishchenko and Banshchikov.

He has performed at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Festival, Mimir Festival, New York Summer Music Festival, Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone NC, Festival des Artes Brazil, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea. He has given numerous master classes, most recently at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, University of Natal Brazil, Korean National University of Arts, Yonsei University, Hanyang University, University of Ulsan, Kyung Hee University, Michigan University, Eastman School of Music, Rice University, New York University, Brooklyn College of Music, Bard College, and Duke University. Mr. Akahoshi has been serving as a judge for competitions such as the Isang Yun International Cello Competition, Aram Khachaturian International Cello Competition, the Harmonium International Cello Competition in Armenia, Juilliard Concerto Competition, and the William Waite Concerto Competition.

Ole Akahoshi was a student of Pierre Fournier. He continued his studies with Aldo Parisot at Juilliard and Yale, and with Janos Starker at Bloomington Indiana. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. His other mentors were Georg Donderer and Wolfgang Boettcher.

Ole Akahoshi is Professor of Cello at the Yale School of Music where he is the artistic director of the Yale Cellos. He is also on the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, the Longy Conservatory in Boston, and the Mannes School of Music The New School. Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists in New York and a member of the Horszowski Trio.