Aya Yoshida

Aya Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田文 , Yoshida Aya ; born September 12, 1971 in Nagoya ) is a Japanese organist and church musician .

Life

Aya Yoshida studied church music and organ at the Cologne University of Music with Wolfgang Stockmeier , Clemens Ganz and Pi-hsien Chen . She completed her studies with the A-exam and also obtained the degrees “Artistic maturity examination with distinction” and “Concert exam”. Special organ studies with Hermann Josef Busch followed . Private studies and courses led her to Gaston Litaize , Nicholas Danby and Almut Rößler .

From 1995 to 2006 she was cantor in the southern Catholic parish of Maria Hilf – St. Maternus - St. Paul in Cologne .

In 2006, Aya Yoshida returned to Japan. In addition to her extensive concert activities with a focus on Japan and Germany, she is the artistic director of the Orgelherbst cycle that she founded in Nagoya .

Aya Yoshida is Professor of Music at Nagoya Women's University and Lecturer at Extension College at Nanzan University in Nagoya.

Sound carrier

Christmas in the south of Cologne
Organ works by female composers
Side lights

Web links

Official website (Japanese, German, English)
Works by and about Aya Yoshida in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Diocese of Fulda - four-hand organ concert and a world premiere in Kassel's Elisabethkirche. In: bistum-fulda.de. August 29, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Yoshida, Aya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	吉田文 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese organist and church musician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture , Japan

[Bis-1] Diocese of Fulda - four-hand organ concert and a world premiere in Kassel's Elisabethkirche. In: bistum-fulda.de. August 29, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .