Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka (born December 4, 1976 in Bonn ) is a German pianist and former German runner-up in powerlifting and weightlifting . Douglass-Ishizaka achieved wider notoriety in May 2012 when she released her recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations under a CC Zero license in the public domain . A corresponding recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier followed in March 2015, and in October 2017 she published a production of the Art of Fugue .
Life
pianist
Douglass-Ishizaka took piano lessons from her mother at the age of four. From 1995 she attended the Cologne University of Music and Dance , where she graduated in 2000 with the top grade. Douglass-Ishizaka attended master classes by Peter Feuchtwanger , Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet , among others .
In 1988 she gave her debut concert in Tokyo . She then performed in Japan , Italy , the Netherlands , Belgium and the United States . As a soloist, she has performed with a number of well-known orchestras, including the Beethovenhalle Orchestra in Bonn , the Classical Philharmonic and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra from Michigan .
In 2012 she gained wider notoriety when she released Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations under a CC Zero license in the public domain . Her follow-up project Open Well-tempered Clavier , a recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier , was pre-financed in November 2013 on Kickstarter by means of crowdfunding by 940 donors. As with the Open Goldberg Variations , the edition also includes the sheet music in digital form; in contrast to the previous project , the financing of a Braille edition for blind musicians was not achieved. In March 2015 the project for the first book was completed.
In October 2017, Douglass-Ishizaka released a recording of Bach's Art of the Fugue under the title Libre Art of the Fugue . The recording was in turn financed by donations on Kickstarter.
On October 1, 2019, the album New Me! released on Bandcamp.
sportswoman
In 2006 Douglass-Ishizaka was in powerlifting with the disciplines bench press, squat and deadlift in the class up to 82.5 kg German runner-up. She then turned to weightlifting , where she came fifth in the ELEIKO Women's Grand Prix in Niederöblarn , Austria , in the class up to 63 kg in spring 2008 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On this and the following cf. Kimiko Ishizaka, pianist on the official website of Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka, last accessed on May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Judith Horchert: Music activists rid Johann Sebastian Bach , in: Spiegel Online of 30 May 2012 last accessed on 30 May 2012 and Mark Brown: Bach score and recording hits publication Following Kickstarter campaign on Wired.co.uk from May 29, 2012, last accessed May 30, 2012.
- ^ Robert Douglass: Open Well-Tempered Clavier - Ba © h to Bach . On: Kickstarter. Completed November 9, 2013. Accessed November 4, 2014.
- ^ Open Well-Tempered Clavier , accessed March 21, 2015.
- ↑ Bach's Final Masterpiece, Liberated. In: Kimiko Ishizaka, pianist. August 22, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
- ^ JS Bach, The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, by Kimiko Ishizaka. October 7, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
- ^ New Me !, by Kimiko Ishizaka. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Hilmar Bürger: Enthusiastic about the piano and convincing about the dumbbell: Kimiko Douglass ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , in: Netzathleten Magazin from December 8, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Douglass-Ishizaka, Kimiko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ishizaka, Kimiko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, former German vice-champion in powerlifting and weightlifter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |