Ryō terakado
Ryō Terakado ( Japanese 寺 神 戸 亮 , Terakado Ryō ; * 1961 in Santa Cruz Bolivia ) is a Japanese violinist and conductor who has historical performance practice .
Live and act
Ryō Terakado began taking violin lessons at the age of four, won 2nd prize in the "All Japan Youth Musical Competition" at the age of fourteen and then studied at the Tōhō Gakuen Daigaku Music Academy in Tokyo . In 1984 he became a concertmaster in the Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra for two years .
At the age of nineteen he became interested in the baroque violin , and in the first few years he tried to be an autodidact. From 1986 he took lessons from Sigiswald Kuijken and received his soloist diploma three years later.
Since 1987 he has been concertmaster in many baroque orchestras in Europe and Japan, including Les Arts Florissants , “ La Chapelle Royale ”, Collegium Vocale Gent , the “Tokyo Bach-Mozart Orchestra”, La Petite Bande , “Il Gardellino” and the Bach Collegium Japan . In 1987 he founded the "Tokyo Baroque Trio" with whom he toured numerous times. This ensemble was renamed "Tokyo Baroque" due to later expansion.
He made his first appearance as a conductor in 1994 at the "Hokutopia International Music Festival" in Tokyo. He has since conducted baroque operas such as Henry Purcell 's “Dido and Aeneas” and “The Fairy Queen”, Jean-Philippe Rameau 's “Pigmaleon”, as well as excerpts from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
In addition to many solo and conductor appearances, he undertook numerous tours with the various ensembles of Sigiswald Kuijken, with Robert Kohnen as harpsichordist.
Ryo Terakado is currently teaching baroque violin and baroque orchestra conducting at the Koninklijk Conservatorium The Hague . He is one of the concert masters of the ensembles Bach Collegium Japan , La Petite Bande , a member of the Kuijken Quartet and the ensemble “Il Gardellino”. For several years now he has also devoted himself to playing the violoncello da spalla , a shoulder cello that is related to the viola pomposa , which was reconstructed by Dmitry Badiarov from today's perspective .
He makes regular recordings with the Belgian "Ensemble Ricercar" and the label of the same name, the labels ACCENT (Belgium), BIS (Sweden) and DENON (Japan)
Web links
- Biography on the website of the Kirchheim concert winter
- Ryō Terakado at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Terakado, ryo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 寺 神 戸 亮 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese violinist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Cruz de la Sierra |