Yoshimichi Hamada |
Recorder & Cornett
The great-grandson of the founder of Japan's first private music university, Toyo Music University (now Tokyo Music University), Yoshimichi Hamada was born in Tokyo and is a fourth-generation musician. He studied trumpet and recorder (with Kazuo Hanaoka) at Toho Gakuen University. After graduating he won a scholarship from the Swiss government and entered the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis to study with Bruce Dickey (cornett), Crawford Young and Dominique Verart (medieval music theory). While in Europe, he collaborated with leading groups and musicians such as the Concerto Palatino, Ensemble PAN, and Ensemble la Fenice. At the invitation of Concert Vocale directed by Rene Jacobs, he returned to Europe in 1996 for performances including P. F. Cavalli's opera "Calisto" at the Berlin National Opera house (Staatsoper Unter den Linden), Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo" conducted by Gabriel Garrido with ensemble Elyma at the open-air theater in Palermo, Italy. He has served appointments as recorder instructor at the Early Music Department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, resident artist of "Mejiro Ba-Rock Music Festival" in 2006 and 2007, and musical director of "Bungo Renaissance Music Festival" since 2004. He is a member of Historic Brass Society in America, musical director and conductor of vocal group "La Voce Orfica", and leader of early music ensemble "Anthonello".
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Kaori Ishikawa |
Viola da Gamba
Kaori Ishikawa started to play viola da gamba under Toshinari Ohashi when she was a student of Yamanashi University. After graduating, she entered the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and studied with Jordi Savall, Polo Pandolfo and Masako Hirao (viola da gamba), Randall Cook (fidel), and Christophe Coin, Hopkinson Smith and Conrad Steinmann (ensemble). She also had lessons by Wieland Kuijken and Lorenz Duftschmid. She has served as an instructor at Yamanashi University. With collaborations including artists such as Enrico Gatti and William Dongois, she is an active soloist and continuo player internationally.
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Marie Nishiyama |
Cembalo&Harp
Marie Nishiyama graduated from the piano department of Tokyo Music University, and also received her master's degree in cembalo there. She studied under Yoshio Watanabe (cembalo) and Yoshiko Ueda (organ). She entered the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis to study with Rinaldo Alessandrini and Nicolau de Figueiredo (cembalo), Heidrun Rosenzweik and Mara Galassi (historical harp), Jesper Christensen (Basso continuo, ensemble), and Pedro Memelsdorff (medieval ensemble). Among other awards and accolades, she won first prize in the 11th Yamanashi Early Music Festival for her cembalo performance. She is a member of "Anthonello", and an accomplished international soloist in both cembalo and historical harp. She also has been involved in many recordings not only in Japan but also in European countries including Italy and Spain. Her highly acclaimed original recording "Taner Fantasia - Spanish keyboard music" (released 1999 in Japan) made its Spain release in 2003, and was chosen as the most recommended CD by a Spanish journal. Each of her solo albums, "Dance du Roy et Chonson " (renaissance harp), "Lamento di Tristano" (medieval gothic harp), "Jupiter - Les orages des passions - Forqueray Pieces de Clavecin" and "J. S. Bach French Suites" (cembalo) has continued to receive high praise and recommendation from many Japanese journals and newspapers. Since 2007, she has released a series of J. S. Bach's main keyboard works under the "Anthonello Mode" label.
Her official site:http://marienishiyama.com/
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