Kei Koito

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Kei Koito (born January 4, 1950 in Kyoto , Japan ) is a Japanese organist , music teacher and composer who lives in Switzerland .

Life

Kei Koito was born into a family of artists. Her father Akira Koito is a film producer and screenwriter and her mother a poet. Her brother Juniji lives in Paris and is a sculptor .

Kei received piano , cello and singing lessons from the age of six . At the age of twelve she discovered the organ and it became her favorite instrument. When she in Yokohama went to school, she played two years cello in the school orchestra and played with the Yokohama City Orchestra , the third piano concerto of Ludwig van Beethoven . After graduating from school at the age of 16, she wanted to dedicate herself to the organ.

In Tokyo she studied at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku and graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts . She worked on the organ with Mitchio Akimoto, on the piano, music theory and chamber music . This was followed by an interpretation course with Anton Heiller and Marie-Claire Alain .

She continued her studies at the Geneva Conservatory with Pierre Segond and then with Xavier Darasse in Toulouse on romantic, symphonic and contemporary organ. Later she worked with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and the baroque violinist and conductor Reinhard Goebel . She attended courses in composition, orchestration and music analysis with Éric Gaudibert in Geneva. In 1987 she completed her studies with the Premier Prix de Virtuosité d'orgue with distinction.

Career

Kei Koito performed for the first time as a soloist in recitals at the Victoria Hall in Geneva and the Auditorium Maurice-Ravel in Lyon . She gives concerts in Europe, Russia, Asia, North America and South America.

Early music has been a mainstay of her repertoire since 1980 , especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1989 she recorded the trio sonatas for organ as well as the Canonical Variations , the Piano Exercise (1993) and The Art of Fugue (1998).

Since 1985 she has been recording pieces by Bach and his contemporaries Buxtehude , Böhm , Bruhns , François Couperin , Fischer , Frescobaldi , Froberger , Grigny , Kerll , Muffat , Pachelbel and their predecessors. Kei Koito works with the Claves label.

She has been teaching at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne since 1992 . She conducts research in the field of early music. She is a jury member and gives master classes and lectures in Europe, Latin America and Québec on works from the 16th to 18th centuries, Bach and music from 1950 until today. She appears together with the Ensemble Gilles Binchois and the Musica Antiqua Köln .

In 1994 she received the “Pro Arte” Foundation Prize of the Swiss Culture Office and in 2010 the Vaudois Culture Prize. She lives in Lausanne.

Compositions

Between 1982 and 1992 she composed several works for ensembles and solo instruments in a modern style influenced by Varèse , Bruno Maderna , Ligeti and Lutosławski .

Fonts

  • Speaking of the Sonate en trio, the Concertos et des Variations canoniques pour Orgel de JS Bach. Harmonic Records, 1990 ( online ).
  • Speaking of piano exercise III et la Mass pour orgue de JS Bach. H / CD 9352/9353. Pp. 2-27. Harmonic Records, 1993 ( online ).
  • Esthétique de Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: À propos de ses œuvres pour orgue. In: L'Orgue , May and June 1996, pp. 2-25 ( online ).
  • Speaking of you compositeur G.-G. Nivers, contemporain de Lully: Nivers et ses admirateurs. L'orgue et la registration chez Nivers. Speaking of the oeuvre d'orgue de Nivers. Paris, TEM 316033/34, pp. 14-22. Radio-France, 2006/2007 ( online ).
  • Les carnets de Léonard de Vinci. In: Le livre de ma vie: Par 30 personnalités de Suisse Romande. Payot, 2011 ( online p. 42).

Discography

photo: claviers
Game table of the Johann Nepomuk Holzhey organ in the Weissenau monastery
photo: orgue de Kampen
Organ of the Bovenkerk in Kampen
Schnitger organ (1702) in the Aa-kerk in Groningen

Kei Koito's discography focuses on the German baroque composers. She recorded successively for Harmonic Records , Tempéraments for Radio France , Claves Records and Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Sony Music.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alain, Pâris, Jean-Yves Bras: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale depuis 1900 . New edition. R. Laffont, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-221-10214-2 , pp. 474 .
  2. ^ Official homepage of Kei Koito
  3. ↑ Kei Koito: Organ music before Bach. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Sony Music, LC 00761, 2014. Livret, p. 23.
  4. ^ Kei Koito (2012): Bach. Les chefs-d'œuvre pour orgue. Vol. III (2012, CD 50-1107). Livret, p. 11.

literature

  • Antonin Scherrer: Kei Koito, Lausanne et Jean-Sébastien Bach . In: Revue musicale de Suisse romande . No. 3 , 1999, ISSN  0035-3744 , p. 15-18 .
  • Antonin Scherrer: Festival Bach de Lausanne: bilan d'une seconde édition . In: Revue musicale de Suisse romande . Vol. 3, 1999, ISSN  0035-3744 , pp. 55-56 .
  • Alain Pâris: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale depuis . Paris 2004, ISBN 2-221-10214-2 , pp. 1289 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koito, kei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese organist, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Japan