Yves Lafontaine
Yves Lafontaine (born July 16, 1959 in Grand-Mère , Québec , Canada ) is a Canadian musician, violin maker and poet .
youth
Yves Lafontaine was born the sixth child of Jeanne d'Arc Lafontaine and the bank clerk Henri Lafontaine. He was shaped musically and artistically by his father, an amateur singer. From making music in childhood, a special fondness for playing the classical guitar developed in youth.
education
In the late 1970s and early 1980s he attended the Conservatory of Music in Quebec a Trois-Riveres. There he studied classical guitar with Jean Vallieres, chamber music with Walter Joachim and viola with Alfred Filek. After completing the second semester, he began his professional career in the field of classical guitar.
From 1983 he studied in Nice, France at the “Académie Internationale d'Eté” with Alexandre Lagoya and Carel Harms (classical guitar). During this time he also studied musicology with J. Chailley and took the conducting class with Fernand Quattrocchi.
In the years 1985–1986 he dealt extensively with the most varied of playing styles for the lute during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He supplemented his in-depth knowledge in this area with research at the Bavarian State Library and the Spanish National Library.
After returning to Canada, he studied East Asian Studies at McGill University in Montréal in 1991 with a bachelor's degree. After an intensive Japanese language course at the University of Tsukuba, which was supported by the Japanese government, he finished his conducting studies at the University of Art and Music Tokyo.
In 2007 he attended a seminar for bow making, under the direction of Giovanni Lucchi and Pierre Guillaume in Lombardy / Italy.
In the period up to 2008 he learned the violin making trade in Cremona / Italy at the violin making school Antonio Stradivari under the guidance of Ernesto Vaia, Giorgio Scolari and Lorenzo Marchi. Building on this, he completed training in the restoration of string instruments with Alessandro Voltini, Claudio Amighetti and Andrea Ortona at the same institute, which he completed in 2010.
Private
On September 9, 1993, Yves Lafontaine married Yuko Ideguchi, whom he had met while studying at Tsukuba University. The couple have four children together. YL is a Canadian citizen, dual residency in Japan and Italy, and an apartment in Japan. He is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Lafontaine is also a good swimmer and hicker.
Career
conductor
YL began his career in Canada as a choir conductor, later switched to the instrumental platform, where he also put together his own arrangements. Since 1990 he has been conducting mainly in Japan. There he conducts the "Narita Philharmonic Orchestra", the "Makuhari Philharmonic Orchestra", the "Kyoto Philmusica Orchester, the Haydn Sinfonietta" and the "Oper Fiori" of Tokyo. He also worked as an employed conductor of the "Philharmonia Tokyio" Symphony Orchestra. YL is currently active in Italy.
Musician
As a guitarist (classical) and as a lute player (Renaissance), YL performed as a soloist and also in chamber music formations in France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Spain, Norway, Canada and in the USA. In Asia he performed on radio and television with his own guitar arrangements and compositions. During his time in Cremona he played the viola in the orchestra of the "Antonius Stradivari Institute".
writer
Lafontaine is also active as a writer (French poetry). He also writes treatises on music technology.
- Combien vite est venu le soir,
- déja ai les paupières lourdes.
- Au dehors tombe la nuit noire,
- Lune à la fête est faite sourde.
- Ai maintenant le dos courbé,
- depuis longtemps jeunesse a fuit.
- Affaibli du poid des années
- a chemine plus dans la nuit.
- Que me reste-t-il à faire
- que d'autre déja ne fut fait?
- Conquises sont toutes les terres,
- au mieux tranquille en coin me tais.
Instruments
YL plays the "Girollet", a guitar made by Contreras in 1989. He owns a violin by Michèl Angelo Bergonzi, built in 1754.
price
In 2007 at the violin making competition in Pisogne, his viola "Nec Pluribus Impar" was awarded the "Menzione Speciale per l´ Acustica". (6) Catalog NICPASSECH Editrice MILANO - Via Bernardino Telesio, 17
Discography
A private label released recordings by Bach, Scarlatti, Albeniz, Granados, de Falla, Todrigo, Sor and Pujol.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Le Nouvelliste", August 3, 1985
- ^ "L'Hebdo du St-Maurice", March 1, 1983
- ^ "Le Nouvelliste", April 30, 1983
- ^ "Le Nouvelliste", November 7, 1984
- ↑ "Sunmørsposten" 15 September, 2010
- ^ "La Provincia", June 28, 2011
- ^ "Yomiuri Shimbun June 7, 1988
- ^ "Son ar Mein" concert program, France, December 26, 2009
- ^ "L'Hebdo du St-Maurice", March 1, 1983
- ^ "Asahi Shimbun," May 30, 1995.
- ↑ "Sunmørsposten" 15 September, 2010
- ^ "Le Nouvelliste, Canada, August 3, 1987
- ^ "Shukan Akita, Nov. 18, 1988
- ^ "China Daily", Beijing, August 16, 1990
- ^ "La Provincia", Cremona, April 11, 2011
- ^ "Son ar Mein" concert program, France, December 26, 2009
- ^ "Son ar Mein" concert program, France, December 26, 2009
- ↑ http://aaso.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:hostkonsert&catid=7:konserter-med-aso&Itemid=32
- ^ "Son ar Mein" concert program, France, December 26, 2009
- ^ "La Provincia", June, 28 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lafontaine, Yves |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian musician, violin maker and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grand-Mère , Quebec , Canada |