HIROSHI IKEMATSU – Principal Contrabass, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra since 2006. The Brazilian-born Japanese Contrabassist HIROSHI IKEMATSU has gained his fame through a variety of music activities. He is uniquely talented and regarded as one of the leading contrabassists in Japan.
Ikematsu started to play the contrabass at the age of 19, learning under the instruction of Mr. Shunsaku Tsutsumi. During his university years at the TOHO Gakuen College, Ikematsu has been the regular participant of the prominent contrabass workshop and festival by Gary Karr, the world’s leading solo bassist and teacher based in Canada.
Since his first solo recital in Casals Hall in 1999, Ikematsu has established a strong name as a great solo contrabassist in Japan. He has played with numerous distinguished musicians, and released solo CDs nationwide successfully. His unique concert with the combination of solo performance and contrabass ensemble has received highly success. Ikematsu was also teaching at KUNITACHI College of Music as well as the Toho Gakuen College in Tokyo.
Takeshi Hidaka is a Japanese horn artist. After graduating with a degree in economics from Nagasaki University, Mr. Hidaka went on to study horn at the Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1996 he continued his studies at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Nerherlands. He studied under Prof. E. Penzel and Prof. W. Sanders at Maastricht, and Prof. Kozo Moriyama, Makoto Yamada, and Yasunori Tahara in Japan. Upon returning home to Japan.
In 2000, he joined the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. He was also a member of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, before joining the NHK Symphony Orchestra,Tokyo in 2005. He was the acting principal horn of NHK from 2008-2013.
He has been a part of many projects and performances which collaborate the horn with the fine arts. Including one program entitled "The Harmony of the Horn and Sculpture". In April of 2013, Mr. Hidaka became an associate professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He also is on faculty at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music as a visiting professor.
Fumiaki Kono (Seki Fumi, September 5, 1956 -) is a Japanese cellist. Professor of Music Faculty, Tokyo University of the Arts.
Fumiaki Kono graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts. In 1982, he studied in Los Angeles under the Overseas Trainee Artist Fellowship of Japan’sAgency for Cultural Affairs. Subsequently, he continued his studiesin Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He studied under Toshio Kuronuma, Gabor Rejto, and Andre Navarra.
Sincehis return in 1984, he has performed both as a soloist and with orchestras in various venues and premiered Joonas Kokkonen's cello concerto and Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV in Japan.
He is currently active in the ensemble field as a member of the Ensemble of Tokyo, Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo, the AOI Residence Quartet, and the Okayama String Quartet. Beginning withthe Bach/Mozart Festival in New York in 1989, he has performed extensively overseas, including in the U.S.A., Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, and South Korea, and continues toperform widelyboth in Japan and abroad.
Kei Ito (1977 September 10 ) is a Japanese clarinet player, born in Furukawa-shi, Miyagi prefecture (current Osaki city ) and graduated from Furukawa High School in Miyagi prefecture. In 2001, he graduated from the Tokyo College of Music Faculty.
In September 2004, he won the first prize at the 6th Japan Clarinet Competition. He is also a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra from December 2004 . In May 2010, he became the principal clarinet player of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Stefan Dohr (born September 3, 1965 in Münster) is a German horn player and currently the principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker). Apart from being a sought-after masterclass teacher, he teaches the horn at the Herbert von Karajan Academy. Stefan Dohr studied with Prof. Wolfgang Wilhelmi at the Musikhochschule in Essen and with Prof. Erich Penzel in Cologne before obtaining the Solo Horn position of the Frankfurt Opera House at the age of 19.
As soloist Stefan Dohr has worked with many celebrated conductors, among them Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink and Christian Thielemann as well as Claudio Abbado, who also invited him to appear as principal horn with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Besides the solo-repertoire of the classic and romantic period, Stefan Dohr’s interest is focused on contemporary works e.g. by György Ligeti, Oliver Knussen and Volker David Kirchner. In March 2008 he played the world premiere of a horn concerto specially composed for him by Austrian composer Herbert Willi.
In July 2007 the CD „Opera“ which Stefan Dohr had recorded with his colleagues of the Berlin Philharmonic Horn Section was released.
Aoi Yamamoto is a Japanese flutist. After graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, she completed master's course flute from Tokyo University. Yamamoto received Full Scholarship exemption exemption due to outstanding achievement.
She was selected as a soloist at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and performed with Mr. Saka Aka at the Geidai Morning Concert and performed a flute concerto with Art Giere Philharmonia. She participated in NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, etc,. Currently, she is an educational research assistant at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts.
Yoshiaki Obata is Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), after which he completed the master course at its graduate school. While at school, he won third prize in the wind instrument category at the 42nd Music Competition of Japan.
From 1979 to 1982, Obata was a member of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He then went to Berlin to pursue further studies. After returning to Japan, he became principal oboist with the New Japan Philharmonic. While serving as a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Obata has been enjoying extensive performing activities as soloist, chamber musician and player of early instruments.
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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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