Imai Nobuko: "Dream"
Imai began her musical training at the age of six.[1] She began studying at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and switched to viola there. Then she went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1967 and won highest prize at both the Geneva International Music Competition and ARD International Music Competition at Munich.
She has worked in chamber music projects with artists such as Martha Argerich, Kyung-Wha Chung, Heinz Holliger, Mischa Maisky, Midori,[2] Murray Perahia, Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman, and appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She is a former member of the Vermeer Quartet and is the founder and a member of the Michaelangelo Quartet, where she performs together with Mihaela Martin, Daniel Austrich and Frans Helmerson. For young musicians from Japan and the Netherlands, she founded the East West Baroque Academy.
Her discography includes more than 30 releases on labels such as BIS, Chandos, DG, EMI, Hyperion, and Philips. She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Avon Arts Award (1993), Japan's Suntory Music Award (1995) and Mainichi Award of Arts (1996). Toru Takemitsu composed for her a Viola Concerto A String around Autumn in 1989.
Between 1983 and 2003 Imai taught as a Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She currently teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (website of conservatory), at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland, at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Geneva (website of conservatory) and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
Imai Nobuko (Yokomo Tokumi, March 18, 1943 -) is a Japanese viola player. Members of Mito Chamber Orchestra. He served as a professor at the German National Detmold Institute of Music from 1983 to 2003 and is now a professor at the Geneva Conservatory and the Amsterdam Conservatory and performing in various countries. Since 1988, Andrea Guarneri (produced in 1690) is playing.
Born in Tokyo. Begin the violin at the age of 6. Studying room music with Hideo Saitoh at Toho Gakuen University.
In 1964 he served as a concert mistress at the Toho Gakuen Orchestra's American Tour and remained in the United States as it was and turned to Viola after listening to "Bonjon Ozawa director Richard Strauss's" Don Quijote "at the Tanglewood Music Festival .
In 1965 he entered Yale University postgraduate. In 1966, he moved to the Juilliard School of Music and studied Viola with Walter Trampler. He won the highest ranking at the Munich International Music Competition in 1967 and the Geneva International Music Competition in 1968.
While working as a member of the Vermeer String Quartet from 1973 to 1978, he teaches as an associate professor at the University of North Illinois.
He went to Europe in 1978 and worked as a soloist, while Professor at Detmold Institute of Music was a professor at Detmold University of Music until 2003, then at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Academie de Musique Tibor Varga [1] of the Amsterdam Conservatory, Geneva Conservatory and Zion (Switzerland) Continue education as a professor.
Since 1992, he has also enthusiastically worked on teaching backwards such as holding an educational music festival "Viola Space" in Tokyo, and since 2009 he will serve as the judge chairman of the Tokyo International Viola Competition.