Takashi Ochi

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The German-Japanese mandolinist Takashi Ochi (1970s)

Takashi Ochi ( Japanese 越 智 敬 , Ochi Takashi ; born October 30, 1934 in Imabari ; † November 14, 2010 in Heppenheim , Hessen ) was a German - Japanese mandolin player and instrumental teacher .

Life

Takashi Ochi was born on October 30, 1934 in Imabari , Japan . He received his first mandolin lessons at the age of 13. From 1954 he studied the foreign languages ​​Italian and English as well as economics at the Foreign Language University Tokyo . At the same time he completed an 8-semester course at the Hiruma Private Conservatory in Tokyo with the main instruments mandolin and guitar . After the concert qualification examination, he followed a three-year pedagogical training course as an instrumental teacher at the same conservatory. After graduating, he spent several years at Hiruma Conservatory as a lecturer for mandolin and guitar act. In addition, he gave numerous concerts as a soloist and with various Japanese orchestras and took part in the production of several radio and television recordings.

In 1961, through the mediation of Siegfried Behrend , Takashi Ochi came to Germany and lived for many years in Saarlouis in the Saarland . In 1966 he married the German Silvia Körner. Since 1973 he had German citizenship . Ochi had lived in Heppenheim since 1977 . From 1977 until his retirement in 1999 he worked at the Mannheim City Music School as a group leader for plucked instruments. In addition, he was a regular lecturer at the Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education in Trossingen and at numerous seminars throughout Germany. Ochi was also regularly engaged as a juror in national and international competitions, for example Jugend musiziert .

Takashi Ochi died on November 14, 2010 in Heppenheim, his adopted home.

Artistic work

From 1961 Takashi Ochi worked as a freelance music teacher at several Saarland music schools and worked as a lecturer in master courses of the Federation for Plucked and Folk Music Saar (BZVS) and the Federation of German Plucked Musicians . From 1961 to 1974 he was concertmaster and soloist of the Saarland plucking orchestra (headed by Siegfried Behrend ) and from 1968 to 1990 of the German plucking orchestra (also under the direction of Behrend). During this time he also worked closely with the harpsichordist and organist Wilhelm Krumbach , with whom he recorded several hundred chamber music works for the Saarland Radio . He accompanied well-known singers such as Hermann Prey , Edith Mathis and Ingeborg Hallstein and played under conductors such as Karl Ristenpart , Hans Zender , Paul Angerer , Bruno Maderna and others. a. Together with his wife, who is also a mandolinist, Ochi has given concerts in almost all European countries and several times in Japan. His discography includes over 40 records and CDs that have been released by Philips, Thorophon, Avanta, HMS, Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor and some Japanese and Italian labels. Takashi Ochi has also created some smaller compositions of his own, e.g. B. Se'i doh for solo mandolin. Several composers have dedicated works to Ochi, including a .: Fried Walter , Wolfgang Hofmann , Bernd Scholz , Stanley Weiner and Siegfried Behrend. The work Takashi Ochiana by the composer Heinrich Konietzny is a direct reference to the mandolinist.

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

  • 1969: Three duos from old Japanese. Melodies for two mandolins , Zimmermann 1969
  • 1973: Se'i doh for solo mandolin Zimmermann-Verlag, Frankfurt 1973.
  • Elementary school for mandolin , carpenter
  • Music for mandolin (collection of contemporary mandolin music ), carpenter. 2 booklets.
  • Fantasias Nos. 1 and 2 for mandolin solo, carpenter
  • Reflections on an old Japanese folk song for plucked orchestra, carpenter. Recorded by Saarland Radio, 1965.

literature

  • Rüdiger Grambow: Takashi Ochi for his 60th birthday , Zupfmusikmagazin 2/95, p. 90
  • Edwin Mertes: Se'i doh - rest and movement, the mandolin master Takashi Ochi on his 70th birthday , concertino 1/2005, p. 18
  • Michael Kubik: Takashi Ochi on his 75th birthday , concertino 1/2010, p. 12
  • Edwin Mertes: Farewell and Memory. On the death of the mandolin master Takashi Ochi , concertino 2/2011, pp. 70–72
  • Alois Becker: Takashi Ochi. An obituary from the Baden-Württemberg perspective of a long-time admirer , Der Baden-Württembergische Zupfer-Kurier 1/2011, pp. 2–11

Discography (selection)

  • Virtuoso mandolin concerts . Koch 1971
  • Master of plucked music, part 6: Heinrich Konietzny . Baden plucked orchestra (led by Wolfgang Bast). Plucked music discotheque 1987
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Lute and Mandolin Concerts . Deutsche Grammophon 1990
  • Vivaldi: Six Rare Concertos . Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Paul Kuentz). Mandolin: Takashi and Silvia Ochi. Disques Pierre Verany 1995
  • Requiem on Hiroshima . DZO chamber orchestra (headed by Siegfried Behrend ). Bella Musica 1988, Thorofon 1998.
  • Music in a rare solo line-up . Electoral Palatinate Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Jiří Malát), mandolin soloist: Takashi Ochi. RBM music production 1999
  • My father's songs with Hermann Prey . Mandolin: Takashi Ochi. Deutsche Grammophon 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Saarbrücker Zeitung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de  
  2. ↑ http://www.szo-online.de/szo?Orchestergeschichte
  3. ↑ see Grambow
personal data
SURNAME Ochi, Takashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 越 智 敬 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Japanese mandolinist and instrumental teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Imabari , Ehime Prefecture, Japan
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2010
Place of death Heppenheim , Hessen, Germany