Takashi Kaketa (Violon cello)
Takashi Kaketa was born in Fukushima Prefecture.
He studied cello under Ryoichi Fujimori and Hideki Kitamoto. Then he studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Faculty of Music, Music Research Masters Degree Early Music Course with Hidemi Suzuki, and at Scuola Civica di Milano with Gaetano Nasillo. He plays with Bach Collegium Japan, La Venexiana, Il Complesso Barocco, Orchestra Libera Classica, and etc, collaborating with Alan Curtis, Masaaki Suzuki, Claudio Cavina, Enrico Onofri, Enrico Gatti, Gunar Letzbor, Gaetano Nasillo, Hidemi Suzuki, Ryo Terakado. He recorded with EMI/Virgin, ORF, Glossa, BIS, Creative CORE, DENON and etc. He played at numerous music festivals in Italy, France, Germany, England, Spain, Austria and Slovenia.
In 2004, Takashi was the 1st and the audience prize and the ORF (Austrian National Broadcasting) as a member of the four trio sonata group "Recreatione d'Arcadia" at the Bomporti International Competition of Contemporary Music (Justice chair person Gustav Leonhard).
In Japan, Takashi participated in major domestic orchestral music, such as Japan, Summer Music Festival of Sapporo Kogaku, Fukuoka Old Festival, Music Festival concert.
Since 2005, he began his career in Europe as well as Italy, Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey, Mexico and South Korea, and has performed at various music festivals throughout Europe.
Akiko Kuwagata is a harpsichord player. She is in charge of class "Koraku Solfege" at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
Akiko Abe is a Japanese soprano opera singer. She graduated from Department of Vocal Music at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She studied vocal music with Junko Komiya, Hiroko Takaki, Hisako Goto, BM Casoni and R. Balconi.
She was the Prize winner of the 75th Japan Music Competition and Iwatani Prize, V. Bukki International Contemporary Music Competition No. 2 (I · Roma), Akiko Abe was invited to numerous music festivals in Italy and Europe throughout Milan, in addition to conducting solo recitals with works of Italian, French modern songs and Italian · baroque, and solo performances of religious songs.
Yasuharu Fukushima is a Japanese conductor. He completed graduate school of Tokyo College of Music. So far he studied composition with Akira Nishimura, Michio Kitazume, Junko Oyama, Musical studies (around Monteverdi) with Mr. Masatake Kanazawa. After graduating from graduate school, he was devoted to baroque music and studied vocal music with Mr. Masato Makino.
In 2006 he decided to study in Italy and studied vocal music with Antonella Janeese, Vincenzo Manno, Bianca Maria Casonini. Also at the Milano City Conservatory in Italy, studied "Renaissance Polyphony" under Mr. Diego Fratelli.
Noriyuki Muramatsu is a Japanese opera singer, born from Kyoto Prefecture. He graduated from Tokyo Arts National University (Academy Music Award at the time of graduation, voicing society award)
Currently he is a second graduate student of Master 's degree program of the Graduate School of Music.
The 20th ABC Newcomer Concert Audition Best Music Award, the 16th Matsukata Music Award Encouragement Award. He performed with Geidai Phil, Osaka Phil and Tokyo Vivaldi Orchestra.
"Marriage Figaro" Serve as a soloist for Celvino, Bach cantata, Handel "Messiah".
Concerto sotto l`Albero, belongs to the Tokyo National University of the Arts Bach Cantata Club.
George Frideric Handel was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle-upon-Saale and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.
A magnificent baroque-era composer, Johann Sebastian Bach is revered through the ages for his work's musical complexities and stylistic innovations.
Born on March 31, 1685 (N.S.), in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a prestigious musical lineage and took on various organist positions during the early 18th century, creating famous compositions like "Toccata and Fugue in D minor." Some of his best-known compositions are the "Mass in B Minor," the "Brandenburg Concertos" and "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, on July 28, 1750. Today, he is considered one of the greatest Western composers of all time.
Childhood
Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, on March 31, 1685 (N.S.) / March 21, 1685 (O.S.), Johann Sebastian Bach came from a family of musicians, stretching back several generations. His father, Johann Ambrosius, worked as the town musician in Eisenach, and it is believed that he taught young Johann to play the violin.
At the age of seven, Bach went to school where he received religious instruction and studied Latin and other subjects. His Lutheran faith would influence his later musical works. By the time he turned 10, Bach found himself an orphan after the death of both of his parents. His older brother Johann Christoph, a church organist in Ohrdruf, took him in. Johann Christoph provided some further musical instruction for his younger brother and enrolled him in a local school. Bach stayed with his brother's family until he was 15.
Bach had a beautiful soprano singing voice, which helped him land a place at a school in Lüneburg. Sometime after his arrival, his voice changed and Bach switched to playing the violin and the harpsichord. Bach was greatly influenced by a local organist named George Böhm. In 1703, he landed his first job as a musician at the court of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar. There he was a jack-of-all-trades, serving as a violinist and at times, filling in for the official organist.
Early Career
Bach had a growing reputation as a great performer, and it was his great technical skill that landed him the position of organist at the New Church in Arnstadt. He was responsible for providing music for religious services and special events as well as giving music instruction. An independent and sometimes arrogant young man, Bach did not get along well with his students and was scolded by church officials for not rehearsing them frequently enough.
Bach did not help his situation when he disappeared for several months in 1705. While he only officially received a few weeks' leave from the church, he traveled to Lübeck to hear famed organist Dietrich Buxtehude and extended his stay without informing anyone back in Arnstadt.
In 1707, Bach was glad to leave Arnstadt for an organist position at the Church of St. Blaise in Mühlhausen. This move, however, did not turn out as well as he had planned. Bach's musical style clashed with the church's pastor. Bach created complex arrangements and had a fondness for weaving together different melodic lines. His pastor believed that church music needed to be simple. One of Bach's most famous works from this time is the cantata "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit," also known as "Actus Tragicus."
Working for Royalty
After a year in Mühlhausen, Bach won the post of organist at the court of the Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar. He wrote many church cantatas and some of his best compositions for the organ while working for the duke. During his time at Weimar, Bach wrote "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," one of his most popular pieces for the organ. He also composed the cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat," or Heart and Mouth and Deed. One section of this cantata, called "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" in English, is especially famous.
In 1717, Bach accepted a position with Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. But Duke Wilhelm Ernst had no interest in letting Bach go and even imprisoned him for several weeks when he tried to leave. In early December, Bach was released and allowed to go to Cöthen. Prince Leopold had a passion for music. He played the violin and often bought musical scores while traveling abroad.
While at Cöthen, Bach devoted much of his time to instrumental music, composing concertos for orchestras, dance suites and sonatas for multiple instruments. He also wrote pieces for solo instruments, including some of his finest violin works. His secular compositions still reflected his deep commitment to his faith with Bach often writing the initials I.N.J. for the Latin In Nomine Jesu, or "in the name of Jesus," on his sheet music.
In tribute to the Duke of Brandenburg, Bach created a series of orchestra concertos, which became known as the "Brandenburg Concertos," in 1721. These concertos are considered to be some of Bach's greatest works. That same year, Prince Leopold got married, and his new bride discouraged the prince's interest in music. Bach completed the first book of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" around this time. With students in mind, he put together this collection of keyboard pieces to help them learn certain techniques and methods. Bach had to turn his attentions to finding work when the prince dissolved his orchestra in 1723.
Later Works in Leipzig
After auditioning for a new position in Leipzig, Bach signed a contract to become the new organist and teacher at St. Thomas Church. He was required to teach at the Thomas School as a part of his position as well. With new music needed for services each week, Bach threw himself into writing cantatas. The "Christmas Oratorio," for example, is a series of six cantatas that reflect on the holiday.
Bach also created musical interpretations of the Bible using choruses, arias and recitatives. These works are referred to as his "Passions," the most famous of which is "Passion According to St. Matthew." This musical composition, written in 1727 or 1729, tells the story of chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew. The piece was performed as part of a Good Friday service.
One of his later religious masterworks is "Mass in B minor." He had developed sections of it, known as Kyrie and Gloria, in 1733, which were presented to the Elector of Saxony. Bach did not finish the composition, a musical version of a traditional Latin mass, until 1749. The complete work was not performed during his lifetime.
Final Years
By 1740, Bach was struggling with his eyesight, but he continued to work despite his vision problems. He was even well enough to travel and perform, visiting Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia in 1747. He played for the king, making up a new composition on the spot. Back in Leipzig, Bach refined the piece and gave Frederick a set of fugues called "Musical Offering."
In 1749, Bach started a new composition called "The Art of Fugue," but he did not complete it. He tried to fix his failing sight by having surgery the following year, but the operation ended up leaving him completely blind. Later that year, Bach suffered a stroke. He died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750.
During his lifetime, Bach was better known as an organist than a composer. Few of his works were even published during his lifetime. Still Bach's musical compositions were admired by those who followed in his footsteps, including Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. His reputation received a substantial boost in 1829 when German composer Felix Mendelssohn reintroduced Bach's "Passion According to St. Matthew."
Musically, Bach was a master at invoking and maintaining different emotions. He was an expert storyteller as well, often using melody to suggest actions or events. In his works, Bach drew from different music styles from across Europe, including French and Italian. He used counterpoint, the playing of multiple melodies simultaneously, and fugue, the repetition of a melody with slight variations, to create richly detailed compositions. He is considered to be the best composer of the Baroque era, and one of the most important figures in classical music in general.
Personal Life
Little personal correspondence has survived to provide a full picture of Bach as a person. But the records do shed some light on his character. Bach was devoted to his family. In 1706, he married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach. The couple had seven children together, some of whom died as infants. Maria died in 1720 while Bach was traveling with Prince Leopold. The following year, Bach married a singer named Anna Magdalena Wülcken. They had thirteen children, more than half of them died as children.
Bach clearly shared his love of music with his children. From his first marriage, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach became composers and musicians. Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and Johann Christian Bach, sons from his second marriage, also enjoyed musical success.
Ryo Terakado (寺神戸 亮 Terakado Ryō, born 1961 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia) is a Japanese violinist and conductor who specializes in historically informed performance. He also plays the viola, viola d'amore and violoncello da spalla. He has been teaching at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Toho Gakuen School of Music.
As a conductor, he has performed Baroque operas such as Purcell's Dido und Aeneas and The Fairy Queen, Rameau's Pigmalion and excerpts of operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Mozart. He has been a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Toho Gakuen School of Music.
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.
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