Mie Kobayashi is one of Japan's leading violinists. Her refined but dynamic performances have won high acclaim in Japan and elsewhere.
Mie Kobayashi studied at the high school attached to the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and continued to study at the university, from which she graduated at the top of her class. She won the Ataka prize and the Fukushima prize while studying at the university. She received the Kawai Overseas Competition Award in 1984, and Second Prize at the Louis Spohr International Competition, also earning a prize for sonata interpretation in 1988.
In 1990 she became the first Japanese to win the top prize of the violin division of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition for Piano and Violin, and from that point, she began her professional career inside and outside Japan.
Kobayashi has performed as a soloist with leading Japanese orchestras including NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, as well as Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Symphony Orchestra, all to high acclaim.
She is also active in the field of chamber music, performing with prominent musicians and as a member of the Shizuoka AOI Quartet, at festivals including Karuizawa International Music Festival where she appears every year.
Kobayashi has released numerous CDs including ”Plays Kreisler”, a duo with Pascal Rogé “Fauré” and “Ravel & Enescu”, and a collection of famous violin pieces including “Zigeunerweisen”.
In 2010, she gave an outstanding performance in a recital at Kioi Hall marking the 20th anniversary of her debut and was invited to become a jury member of the violin division of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition. In 2012, Kobayashi performed at the concert in Pakistan to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan. She has also performed in France, England, Thailand, China, Korea, and New Zealand, and fascinated the audience.
Kobayashi’s recitals, chamber music concerts, and performances with orchestras are scheduled nationwide for the coming years.
In 2015 commemorating the 25th anniversary of her debut, a three-year series of six concerts was planned and successfully completed. In February 2018, a new series of recitals to explore the multi-faceted allure of the violin has started.
Currently, she is a guest professor at the Showa University of Music.
Naoto Otomi is a Japanese famous condutor. he has been also Music Director of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra since April 2013, Honorary Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra since April 2014, Conductor Laureate of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra since 2008 and Music Advisor to the Ryukyu Symphony Orchestra since 2001.
Born in 1958, Naoto Otomo graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music having studied conducting under Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Tadaaki Odaka and Morihiro Okabe. His studies took him to Tanglewood where he worked with conductors such as André Previn, Leonard Bernstein and Igor Markevitch.
While still a student at Toho Gakuen, Naoto Otomo was named Assistant Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and upon the recommendation of its members, made his debut with the orchestra at the age of 22. During his career, Naoto Otomo has regularly made appearances with major orchestras both in Japan and overseas. Having previously held the posts of Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, etc,.
In recent years, Otomo has also been actively involved in education, and his contributions include the organization of the international music seminar “Music Masters Course Japan” alongside fellow conductor Alan Gilbert.
Naoto Otomo is the recipient of the 8th Akeo Watanabe Music Foundation Award (2000) and the 7th Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award (2008).
Jonathan Nott (born 25 December 1962, Solihull, England) is an English conductor. He was a music student and choral scholar at the University of Cambridge, and also studied singing and flute in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music. Nott was also a conducting student in London. He left Britain to develop his conducting career in Germany via the traditional Kapellmeister system.
Nott made his conducting debut in 1988 at the Opera Festival in Battignano, Italy. In 1989, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1991, he was appointed Erster Kapellmeister at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and became interim chief conductor for the 1995–96 season. He later became music director at the Lucerne Theatre and served as principal conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2002.
Nott first guest-conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in October 2011. Immediately following this engagement, the orchestra offered him its music directorship.
Takaseki Ken (Takaseki, April 21, 1955 -) is a Japanese classical music conductor.
He is Principal Conductor of the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Resident Conductor of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Adviser of the Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra.
Takaseki Ken started to study piano and violin early in his childhood. He won the Karajan Competition in Japan in 1977 while he was still a student at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. After graduating from the school the following year, he left Japan to study at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy (Karajan Foundation) and worked as an assistant to Herbert von Karajan till 1985.
Takaseki has earned the profound trust of artists. At the Pierre Boulez Kyoto Prize Workshop in 2009, for example, he received high praise from Pierre Boulez and such world-renowned soloists as Mischa Maisky, Itzhak Perlman, and in particular Martha Argerich, for his performances over the course of three concerts including the Japan premiere of a work by Rondion Schedrin.
Shion Minami is a young violinist in Japan. With her second prize of Long-Thibaud International Competition, Shion Minami attracted a great deal of international attention in 2005. She continues her study in Japan, at the same time, gives many recitals and concerts in Japan and Europe. Released her first recording in 2008. She is one of the most acclaimed talented young violinists.
Born in Kitakyushu, Japan and began studying the violin at the age of three. She studied with Eisuke Shinozaki, Miki Shinozaki, Yu Nishiwada and is now studying with Koichiro Harada at Toho Gakuen School of Music. Won the first prize at the 54th Student Music Concourse of Japan in Fukuoka (elementary school pupils' convention), the second prize at the 10th Classical Music Competition in Japan, etc,.
In Europe, she won the 13th Alberto Curci International Violin Competition (Napoli, Italy) in 2004 when she was 15 years old, which led her debut in Italy in 2005. In October 2005, she was given the second prize at the Long-Thibaud International Competition as well as the Prize of the SACEM as for the best recital performer.
Yamazaki Nobuko born in 1956 is a cello player from Hiroshima and graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo.
While still a student, she was awarded the first prizes of both Min-on Chamber Music Competition and the Cello Section of the 44th Japan Music competition. After having graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, she furthered her studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva for two years with an Overseas Scholarship funded by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Upon her return to Japan, Ms Yamazaki embarked on a highly successful career, giving many recitals and chamber music performances. Besides regular engagements with every leading orchestra in Japan, she has been invited by renowned European orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and played with the English Chamber Orchestra in the prestigious opening series for Suntory Hall.
Ms Yamazaki is a member of the Saitama Arts Quartet, which is currently performing a cycle of the complete Beethoven String Quartets. She is Professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Masahiko Enkoji (Masahiko Enzo, September 16, 1954 -) is a conductor in Japan, born in Tokyo in 1954. At Toho Gakuen University, he studied conducting under Hideo Saito and piano under Aiko Iguchi.
In 1980, he studied abroad at National Music College in Vienna under Otmar Suitner.
Following his return to Japan in September of 1981,he received an appointment as assistant conductor with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1986 he began conducting exclusively for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, becoming their conductor in 1989.
In February of 1992, he guest conducted the Prague Symphony Orchestra at Smetana Hall, winning great critical acclaim. In April of 1995, as the result of an invitation from Dimitri Kitajenko, he appeared as guest conductor with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra impressing many with deep artistic emotion.
Today, as a conductor of international caliber, he represents a great talent of whom the greatest hopes are being entertained.
Nakagawa Eijiro (Nakagawa Eijiro, October 7, 1975 ) is a Japanese trombonist and composer, born in Tokyo(1975), Eijiro is already busy playing along side some of the top musicians in both Japan and the USA. Having been brought up in a very musical family, Eijiro started to play trombone at the age of 5. By the time he was 6, he was already performing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" in his father's band. While being influenced by JJ Johnson, Carl Fontana and Urbie Green, Eijiro attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he studied with Kiyoshi Itoh of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Soon after, he was sent abroad to seminars at the Berklee School of Music - all this, by the time he was 16.
With the support of Yamaha-Japan, Eijiro has designed his own models of both tenor and bass trombones. Yamaha has also helped Eijiro become known throughout Japan and the United States.
Eijiro has several projects presently in the works. His new Japanese jazz group, the "Beat Detectives" had their first live performance at Blues Alley Japan. In New York he has teamed up with Jim Pugh in a new group, "E'nJ" which has just completed it's first CD after being a hit at the Blue Note. With these and other new projects under way, Eijiro Nakagawa is certain to become a prominent musical voice on both sides of the world.
Toshiyuki Watanabe (渡辺 俊幸 Watanabe Toshiyuki) (born February 3, 1955, in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese musician, composer and also record producer who has scored multiple films and anime. His most notable works are the Mothra trilogy in the 1990s and the award-winning anime series "Uchū Kyōdai" (2012). He is the son of legendary tokusatsu and anime composer, Michiaki Watanabe.
In 1979, he entered Berkley College of Music in Boston and studied techniques for composing and arranging classical music and jazz. After coming back to Japan, he started his career as a composer for movies and TV series in earnest while working with Masashi Sada as a record producer.
In recent years, he dealt with music for Japanese immortal masterpieces, such as year-long historical fiction drama series "Mori Motonari" (1977) and "Toshiie to Matsu" (2002), TV drama series "Non chan no yume" (1988), "Karin" (1993), "Dondo hare" (2007), "Ohisama" (2011) etc. on Japan's national public broadcasting organization, NHK, etc,.
Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works.
He was born in Paris and began his musical career as a bassoonist for René Clemencic's Clemencic Consort and Philippe Pierlot's Ricercar Consort.
In 1982 Minkowski formed "Les Musiciens du Louvre", an orchestra dedicated to showcasing French Baroque music which has championed works by Marin Marais (opera Alcione), Jean-Joseph Mouret (opera Les amours de Ragonde), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully (opera Phaëton at Opéra National de Lyon) and Jean-Philippe Rameau (opera Hippolyte et Aricie). The ensemble has also revived lesser-known Handel operas, such as Teseo, Amadigi, Riccardo Primo and Ariodante, as well as several operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck including Armide (at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), Alceste and Iphigénie en Tauride (at the English Bach Festival at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden).
Asaka Satoshi (Asahaka Satoshi, October 26, 1959 -) is a free announcer in Japan, an ex-TV Asahi announcer.
He was born in Yokohama in 1959. After graduating from Keio University, he joined the company as an announcer on TV Asahi. He is in charge of sports broadcasting of "News Station". Became a free announcer in 1995, active in various media. On the other hand, He also serve as a planning organization and a moderator for classical concerts.
He is famous for recorder's masterpieces, his professional skills at television and concerts. Also, in Yokohama City where he currently lives, he organizes an ensemble Yamate Barocco and regularly performs
Kentaro Kawase is a young conductor in Japan, born in Tokyo in 1984, and graduated from the Tokyo College of Music in 2007 with a major in conducting. His conducting teachers included Jun’ichi HIROKAMI, Yasuhiko SHIOZAWA, Myung-Whun CHUNG, and Arild REMMEREIT. He also studied piano and score reading under Reiko SHIMADA.
He appeared in the Rainbow 21 Debut Concert 2005 at Suntory Hall, and conducted the Ensemble Endless, the Tokyo College of Music String Ensemble. In 2006, he participated in the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra Academy Conducting Workshop. He was second prize winner (no first prize was awarded) in the Tokyo International Music Competition for conducting in 2006. At the competition’s Prize Winners Gala Concerts in March, 2007, he conducted the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Century Orchestra Osaka. He was Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival in 2007-09. He has been conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra since 2011.
Yasuhiro Komori is a Japanese conductor, born in Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture and graduated from Utsunomiya University Faculty and Tokyo National University of the Arts.
In 2007, he studied at Bayern Broadcasting Symphony and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Until now, He has took part in many domestic and international performances such as Vienna Pro Arte Orchestra, Ukraine National Lugansk Phil, Nippon Philharmonic, Tokyo Universal Philharmonic, Symphony, Sendai Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Central Aichi Symphony, Nara Phil, Seto Phil, Command the orchestra. Currently, he is lecturer at Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts and he also works as a pianist for the flute and piano unit "Bosqet de Marrons".
Kohei Ueno (Ueno Konoi, July 10, 1992 -) is a saxophone player belonging to Nippon Columbia.
He started playing the saxophone at the young age of eight in his school band. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, instrumental music department.
Kohei had attracted public attention from an early age and made his debut while still in school. Reviews include:
“Listening to just one note, I knew Kohei was specially gifted.”
Kazuki Yamada, conductor
“I have never heard such sounds from a saxophone. He is an eye-opener.”
Keith Lockhard
Kohei made a sensational senior debut winning 1st prize at the 28th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition, youngest ever in its long history. In 2014, he won a prestigious 2nd prize at 6th Adolphe Sax International Competition in Belgium.
His recital in 2016 was a great success with all unaccompanied works at the B→C Concert. He continues to challenge new repertoires and pursues all possibilities of the saxophone.
Daisuke Soga is a resident Conductor of the Tokyo New City Orchestra.
He studied with Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Ilya Musin, Uros Lajovic, Seiji Ozawa, Masahiko Tanaka, Ion Cheptea, Tadashi Mori, and others at the Toho Gakuen College of Music and the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna as well as many master classes. He made his debut in Romania in 1989 while he was still a student at the National University of Music Bucharest.
He won the 1st prizes at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 1993 and the International Kirill Kondrashin Competition for Young Conductors in 1998. Since then he has performed with many orchestras in Japan, Europe and South America. The tie between Soga and Romania is particularly strong and he regularly performs with the George Enescu Philharmonic, the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, and the Braşov Philharmonic. In 2013, Soga was invited to conduct Inauguration concert of New Brasov Philharmonic"Patria" hall, also Season Opening performances of the Brasov Philharmonic and the Brasov Opera.
Kyohei Sorita (September 1, 1994) is a Japanese pianist, born in 1994.
In 2012, while still in high school, he won both 1st prize and Special Audience Award at the 81st Japan Music Competition. He studied at Toho Gakuen School of Music in 2013, then applied for Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia under the recommendation of Professor Mikhail Voskresensky and entered with the highest score in 2014.
He is studying at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music) with Professor Piotr Paleczny since 2017.
And Kyohei has performed with some of the world’s major orchestra including the Mariinsky Orchestra, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and so on.
In this year, He will be performed “Concert tour” with the Russian National Orchestra under the baton of Mo. Mikhail Pletnev. Kyohei is high in demand both in Japan and overseas. He has exceptional talent and we look forward to a promising and exciting future.
Sawase Rimisato is a Japanese saprano, born in Masuda city, Shimane prefecture. She graduated from the National Vocal Music University Vocal Music Department and won the Takeoka Prize. Appearance of the 75th Yomiuri Shinken Performance Concert.
She studied the songs of British composer R-Quilter and obtained doctor's degree (music). She studied vocal music with Miko Sato and Kazuko Nagai. In religious songs, Sawase Rimisato is a soloist for JS Bach "Matthew Passion", Cantata, Mozart "Requiem", Haydn "Creation of the Heaven", etc,. As a voice member of Japan (presided by Mr. Suzuki Masaaki), she participated in domestic and overseas concerts and recordings. In 2008, Sawase Rimisato played "Ida" . In the 47th and 48th Yamaguchi Prefectural Student Competition she won first prize and the second place in the 79th Japan Vocal Music Competition.
Mari Ohki is a Japanese organist from Shizuoka city. She graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and was elected as a soloist at the Geidai Morning Concert and collaborated with Tadayaki Odaka.
She also studied at the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Meeting), Scholarship of the Posele Foundation, studying at the Lübeck National Music College of Music and Detmold University of Music studying under Alvito Gast, Michael Ladlecsk, Martin Zander and graduated with honors with national performer qualifications.
She ranked the 2nd placein the Mainz International Organ Competition, the 3rd winner of Buxtehude International Organ Competition, No. 65 in "Prague Spring" International Music Competition Organ Division.
Currently, she is an assistant Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Science Education Research and a part-time lecturer at Kobe College Gakuin University.
Kazumasa Kazumasa Watanabe is a well-known conductor, born in Tokyo, he performed Haydn's Piano Concerto in D with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 8. He took first place in the elementary and middle school piano division of the Japan National Student Music Competition both in 1978 and 1980. In 1987 he went to Europe to take a piano master class at the Darmstadt Music Academy under Hans Leigraf.
He made his conducting debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1991. He became a student conductor of that orchestra in 1992, its assistant conductor in 1994 and conductor in 1996. In 1995 he also became Permanent Conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.
Kazumasa Watanabe has won acclaim for performances of Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto and works by Ravel, Mozart and Gershwin. He conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra for the first time in 1998 and he will conduct the subscription concerts of the orchestra in June 2006.
Michie Koyama (May, 3 1959) is a Japanese classical pianist.
In 1982, she ranked the third place at Tchaikovsky International Competition, the fourth place at the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1985 and she is the only Japanese pianist who wins both big international competitions.
Michie Koyama was born in Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture, and raised in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture. The pianist graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and began playing the piano at the age of 6 and prepared to become a pianist after participating in the Tchaikovsky international competition. It is unusual that despite being a award-winning pianist at a prominent foreign competition, she has still not studied overseas. Michie Koyama also has performed numerous collaborations with domestic and international orchestras and well-known conductors.
Michie Koyama was the judge of the International Competition, the Sendai International Music Competition, the 10th Tchaikovsky International Competition (1994), the Ron-Tibaud International Competition (2004), the 16th Chopin International Piano Competition (2010), the Munich International Music Competition (2014).
Junko Onishi (大西 順子 Onishi Junko, born April 16, 1967 in Kyoto) is a Japanese jazz pianist; she plays in the post-bop genre.
After studying at Berklee College of Music, Onishi moved to New York City, where she played with Joe Henderson, Betty Carter, Kenny Garrett, and Mingus Dynasty. She has also worked with Jackie McLean, Holly Cole, and Billy Higgins, among others, and recorded eight CDs for Blue Note (Somethin' Else in Japan) as a leader.
In May 1994, Junk Japanese played for a week at the Village Vanguard, with Wynton Marsalis's sidemen, bassist Reginald Veal, and drummer Herlin Riley. Although she lists Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Ornette Coleman as her primary influences, her playing is also reminiscent of McCoy Tyner and contemporaries such as Kenny Kirkland and Mulgrew Miller.
Onishi appeared in the documentary Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz (1997), playing the song "Trinity" ("Quick") from her album Play, Piano, Play.
Akiyama Kazuke (Kazuyoshi Akiyama, January 2, 1941) is a well-known conductor in Japan, graduated from Toho Gakuen Music College. He is a conductor at Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra Honorary and president of the Japan Conductor Association (fifth generation). He is well versed in brass bandnes, and he is a special conductor and art advisor to musical band groups.
Kazuyoshi Akiyama was born into a musical family, he studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, but was fascinated by the conducting activities of a fellow student, Seiji Ozawa. He decided to study conducting with Hideo Saito. In 1974, Akiyama made his debut with the Tokyo Symphony, and within two months, he was named the orchestra’s Music Director and Permanent Conductor.
The debut performance was at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 1964, next the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, then he became the deputy conductor of Toronto Symphony Orchestra of Canada. The conductor took over as Vancouver Symphony Orchestra music director and a music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as guest at numerous international concerns such as: American, Canadian and European, etc,.
Noriko Ogawa is a famous pianist in Japan.She has achieved considerable renown throughout the world since her success at the Leeds International Piano Competition.
Noriko’s “ravishingly poetic playing” (Telegraph) sets her apart from her contemporaries and acclaim for her complete Debussy series with BIS Records, confirms her as a fine Debussy specialist. Her Images Book I and II were chosen as the top recommendation ‘exquisite delicacy’, BBC Radio 3’s CD Review, January 2014. Noriko’s latest recording for BIS records is of solo piano music by Eric Satie.
Noriko appears with all the major European, Japanese and US orchestras including the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, as well as the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere of Richard Dubugnon’s Piano Concerto. Noriko made her BBC Proms debut in August 2013 and appeared again in 2014 with the Endymion Ensemble. She was the Artistic Director for the Reflections on Debussy Festival 2012 at Bridgewater Hall. In 2015 she continued as Associate Artist for Ravel and Rachmaninov Festival.
Noriko regularly judges the BBC Young Musician, Munich International Piano Competition, Honens International Piano Competition and the Scottish International Piano Competition. Noriko has been appointed as Chairperson of the Jury for Japan’s prestigious 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2018.
Noriko is passionate about charity work, after the tsunami in Japan in 2011, she has raised over £40,000 for the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Fund. Noriko founded Jamie’s Concerts a series for autistic children and parents and is a Cultural Ambassador for the National Autistic Society.
Born in Vienna, Stefan Vladar is one of Austria’s most remarkable musical personalities. He performs regularly as a conductor and pianist in music centres throughout Europe, America and Asia. In the 2015/16 season, the Vienna Concert House celebrated his 50th birthday with a series of 13 concerts in which he displayed his diverse artistic scope as a soloist, conductor, accompanist and chamber musician.
Stefan Vladar was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in 2008. In the 2015/16 season, he conducted the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Bankok Symphony Orchestra, etc,.
Stefan Vladar has been guest artist of the Salzburg Festival, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Musikfest Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Rheingau Music Festival,
Ryoko Moriyama (森山 良子 , Moriyama Ryōko, born January 18, 1948) is a Japanese folk and jazz singer. Her father is Hisashi Moriyama, a pioneer of Japanese jazz. Her son Naotaro Moriyama is a singer. Her first cousin Hiroshi Kamayatsu is also a musician.
She is known as the Japanese Joan Baez, or the Queen of college folk. Her songs tend not to become best sellers but her most famous song is "Satokibi Batake". This song is about a tragedy during the Battle of Okinawa. The song's full version is 10 minutes. When this song was first released, it was thought to be too long to air on the radio, but now the song is popular in Japan. Every summer, NHK air a shorter version as a symbol of the "No War Campaign". In the song, an imitative word "Zawawa" is repeated 66 times, because of this, it is often called "Zawawa". Moriyama often called "Satokibi Batake" 'Zawawa' as a joke.
Her 1969 recording of "Kinijirareta koi" ("Unpermitted Love") sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. A more recent hit song is "Nada Sōsō," a poem set to music by Begin (band) and sung by Rimi Natsukawa.
Some of her songs, such as "Kono hiroi nohara ippai" and "Dona dona", now appear in school textbooks.
She sang a theme song at Nagano Olympics opening ceremony in 1998.
Inspired by "Satokibi Batake", a TV drama called Satokibi Batake no uta (Song of the Sugarcane field) was made. Akashiya Sanma takes the lead role as a soldier who refused to kill.
Nada Sōsō' also features in a TV program. Nada Sōsō means teardrops in Okinawa dialect. The song describes the experience of being unable to meet the person you love most. The song may refer to the death of Moriyama's brother.
Masaaki Suzuki (鈴木 雅明 , Suzuki Masaaki, born 29 April 1954) is an award-winning Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.
He began playing organ professionally at church services at the age of 12. He earned degrees in composition and organ at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, then earned Soloist Diplomas at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he studied harpsichord and organ with Ton Koopman and Piet Kee and improvisation with Klaas Bolt.
With this ensemble Masaaki Suzuki is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist at Yale University and director of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
Sachio Fujioka was born in Tokyo in 1962 and from the age of 16 studied conducting with both Kenichiro Kobayshi and Akeo Watanabe. In 1990 he moved to the UK taking up post-graduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he was the first holder of the Sir Charles Groves Conducting Fellowship. Since 2001 he has held the position of Chief Conductor of the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra in Osaka.
Following his very successful debut with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra at Suntory Hall, Tokyo in May 1995, he was appointed a regular guest conductor and now returns to work with the orchestra on a number of occasions each season. He also works regularly with many other Japanese orchestras including the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Sapporo Symphony and Hiroshima Symphony Orchestras.
Following highly successful productions with the Opera de Oviedo (Spain) of Britten’s Turn of the Screw in the 2006/07 season, (a production that won a Teatro Campoamor Opera Award for Best Production) and Ariadne auf Naxos in 2009/10, Maestro Fujioka has been reinvited to conduct Madama Butterfly in 2014.
Sachio Fujioka has made a number of recordings of music by the distinguished Japanese composer Takashi Yoshimatsu with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for Chandos Records.
Yukio Yokoyama is a Japanese pianist, born in Tokyo in 1971. He went to study at the Paris Music Conservatoire Collegium with a scholarship from the French Government in 1987. There, he studied under Jacques Rouvier, Vlado Perlmuter and others. In 1989, he won prizes at the Busconi International Concours and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Concours.
In 1990, at the age of 19, he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with grants of Premier Prix in piano and chamber music and the same year won third prize from the Chopin International Piano Competition and also the Sonata prize.
With this success, Yokoyama then officially began his concert activities, including recitals and performances with orchestras in cities all around the world, in addition to chamber music and radio broadcast performances.
In 2001, he made his successful recital debut as well as concerto debut in St. Petersburg with the St. Petersburg Philharmony under Nikolai Alexeev. During the years of 2005 - 2006, Yokoyama performed together with Berlin Symphony Orchestra “Emperor Concerto” under the baton of Eliahu Inbal.
And in 2011, Yokoyama performed 212 Chopin solo works, including previously unpublished pieces, in a single concert, thus breaking his own Guinness World Record.
Mayuko Kamio (神尾 真由子, born June 12, 1986 in Toyonaka, Osaka) is a Japanese violinist.
Kamio currently studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule Musik und Theater (HMT) in Zurich, Switzerland. She plays a Stradivarius from 1727, previously owned by Joseph Joachim, on loan from Suntory. She has appeared with renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Russian National Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, and the Zürcher Kammerorchester. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2000 and first prize for violin in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2007.
Kamio was one of three people (along with pianist Adam Neiman and Young Concert Artists manager Susan Wadsworth) who were the subjects of the 2003 documentary film Playing for Real, directed by Josh Aronson. The film documents the difficulties in establishing a career in classical music.
In 2010, Kamio toured Japan with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. On 2 October 2010, she played Fantasía sobre Carmen de Sarasate in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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