Yasunori Imamura
Yasunori Imamura ( Japanese 今 村 泰 典 , Imamura Yasunori ; born October 19, 1953 in Sakai , Osaka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese lutenist .
Career
He studied lute with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , where he graduated with a soloist diploma. He also studied performance practice and basso continuo with Ton Koopman and Johann Sonnleitner and compositions with Wolfgang Neininger .
Today Yasunori Imamura is in demand as a soloist and thoroughbass player all over the world and has participated in over 120 CD recordings as a soloist and thoroughbass player. His solo recordings include all of Johann Sebastian Bach's lute works , three volumes of the lute sonatas by Silvius Leopold Weiss , pièces pour théorbe by Robert de Visée and all the fantasies by Simone Molinaro.
As a thoroughbass player, he has worked with artists such as Cecilia Bartoli , Teresa Berganza , Gérard Lesne , Marc Minkowski , Michael Schneider, Martin Gester , Maurice Steger , Masaaki Suzuki , Alan Curtis and Paul Goodwin .
Imamura is a member of the ensembles “La Stagione Frankfurt”, “Les Musiciens du Louvre”, “Camerata Cologne”, “Le Parlement de Musique” and “Il Complesso Barocco”. In 1997 Yasunori Imamura founded the ensemble “FONS MUSICAE” with which he gives concerts all over Europe and the Far East. So far the ensemble has recorded five CDs (M. Lambert, G. Bononcini, A. Steffani and A. Caldara and F. Gasparini), which have been awarded various prizes such as "Classica" or "Stars of the Month".
He works as a professor of lute at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg . At the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , he teaches the lute. In addition, he leads various master classes in Europe and the Far East.
Awards
- 2010 Culture Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
- Diapason d'or
- Le Joker ("Crescendo", Belgium)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Imamura, Yasunori |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 今 村 泰 典 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lutenist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sakai , Osaka Prefecture , Japan |