Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) is composed of an orchestra and a chorus specializing in Baroque music, playing with period instruments. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki with the purpose of introducing Japanese audiences to European Baroque music. Suzuki still remains its music director. The ensemble has recorded all of Bach’s cantatas, a project that extended from 1995 to 2013 and accounts for over half of its discography.
The ensemble was founded in 1990, by Masaaki Suzuki who is still its music director Since then, they have become sought-after performers, collaborating with European artists such as Max von Egmond, Nancy Argenta, Christoph Prégardien, Peter Kooy, Monika Frimmer, Michael Chance, Kai Wessel, Gerd Türk, Michael Schopper and Concerto Palatino.
They have toured Asia, Europe and North America, with many performances as cultural festivals such as Edinburgh Festival, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Festival Internacional Cervantino the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival.
Five years after the Collegium was founded, they began a project to record all the Bach cantatas, finishing in 2013. Working with Swedish record label BIS, the work was performed at a Christian chapel at Kobe University, one of the few Christian churches in the country large enough to properly perform such works. These recordings account for over half of the ensemble’s 99-album discography.
Chofu International Music Festival returns for its sixth year and will be held between June 24th and July 1st. The themes for this year, devised by Artistic Director Masato Suzuki, are ‘Bach’s Performance’, ‘Collaboration in Art’ and ‘Succession to the next generation’.
During the week, there are performances from Masaaki Suzuki and soprano Joanne Lunn. Joanne performs her first solo recital in Japan at the Chofu City Cultural Centre on June 29th accompanied by Masato Suzuki on piano. The recital includes works from Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Henry Bishop. Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Chofu Festival Orchestra performing Bach’s Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D Major, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella suite and Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 in C minor on June 30th at Chofu City Green Hall.
The festival concludes on July 1st with a concert at Chofu City Green Hall from the Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masato Suzuki. He will be joined by sopranos Joanne Lunn, Mari Moriya and Saki Nakae, tenor Makoto Sakuruda and bass Toru Kaku for a performance of Mozart’s ‘Der Schauspieldirektor’ and ‘Bastien und Bastienne’.
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