Spring Festival in Tokyo 2019

Daisuke Suzuki (classical guitarist)

Daisuke Suzuki is known for his rich tone, musical sensitivity and strong feeling for tonal color, supported a masterful technique. The lyricism of his legato has been said to ‘charm the audience without fail'.

Born in 1970, Daisuke Suzuki began guitar lessons at the age of eight with Kazuaki Ichimura. Later, he continued his studies under Shinichi Fukuda and Masahiro Ojiri, whilst pursuing composition with Tetsuo Kawakami and Yoshifumi Nakajima.

Since 1993, beginning with his victory at the Citta de Alessandrea, Concorso Internazionale de Chitarra Classica with Omággio a Andrés Segovia in Italy, Mr. Suzuki's international activities have earned him great recognition both in Japan and abroad. In 1994, his talents were acknowledged by the Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency, when he won their scholarship to study for one year at Salzburg's Mozarteum. It was there that he expanded his knowledge of the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire under the tutelage of Elliot Fisk and Joaquin Clerch. Before returning to Japan, he gave recitals around Europe, including Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic to high acclaim.

Mr. Suzuki is considered the foremost interpreter of the music of Toru Takemitsu, to whom he was very close. He is frequently asked to perform Takemitsu's music throughout the world: notably at the Takemitsu memorial concerts held at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto and in 2005 at the Théatre du Châtélet, Paris, where he performed in ‘My Way of Life,' a staged realization of several of Takemitsu's works. In 2006, he was invited to Copenhagen Jazz Festival as the guitarist for Kasper Tranberg Takemitsu Project. In 2008, he performed for “A Tribute to Toru Takemitsu” with Kazumi Watanabe, coba, and Tomohiro Yahiro, as the part of Japan Festival held in Kennedy Center (Washington), and in 2010 with the same members at Carnegie Hall and Orange County Performing Arts Center (California) which highly acclaimed.

Mr. Suzuki has released numerous recordings, including his debut album “RITO” (1996) and Complete Collection of Guitar Works by Toru Takemitsu (1997) which was acclaimed by Takemitsu who praised his playing, saying, “one rarely has the opportunity to hear a performance like his.” Other CDs include “Homage to Catalonia” which was awarded the ‘Art Work Prize of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ in 2005, “Love and Soul of Toru Takemitsu (Film Music)” marking the 10th anniversary of Toru Takemitsu’s death (2006), After the first release of “The Cinema Paradise” which is covered album of film music for solo guitar, it has been released three more CDs of the same series by 2011.

Suzuki won the Idemitsu Award in 2000 and the Arts Encouragement Prize from Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2006. Internationally, he captured third prize in the 1992 Maria Canals de Barcelona International Competition for Musical Performance - Guitar Division.

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• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
  東京都美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園８−３６  Map

• Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
  東京文化会館

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  日本、〒110-8716 東京都台東区上野公園５−４５  Map

• Tokyo Kinema Club
  東京キネマ倶楽部

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  日本、〒110-0003 東京都台東区根岸１丁目１−１４  Map

• Ishibashi Memorial Hall
  石橋メモリアルホール

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  日本、〒110-0015 東京都台東区東上野４丁目２４−１２  Map

• Tokyo National Museum Heiseikan
  東京国立博物館平成館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園１３−９ 東京国立博物館内  Map

• Rising Square ground floor Earth Garden
  ライジング・スクエア1階 アース・ガーデン

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• Ueno Royal Museum
  上野の森美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園１−２  Map

• National Museum of Western Art
  国立西洋美術館

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園７−７  Map

• National Science Museum
  国立科学博物館

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  日本、〒110-8718 東京都台東区上野公園７−２０  Map

• Old Tokyo Music School Gakudo
  旧東京音楽学校奏楽堂

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  日本、〒110-0007 東京都台東区上野公園８−４３  Map

• Tokyo University of the Arts
  奏楽堂

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  日本、〒110-8714 東京都台東区上野公園１２−８  Map

  Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学 , Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) or Geidai (芸大 ) is an art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju, Adachi, Tokyo. The university owns two halls of residence: one (for both Japanese and international students) in Adachi, Tokyo, and the other (for mainly international students) in Matsudo, Chiba.

  The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo Fine Arts School (東京美術学校 , Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校 , Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō) , both founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ((国立大学法人東京藝術大学 ) . On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."

  The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

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