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Hidemi Suzuki
is a Japanese cellist and conductor. Career Suzuki took his music degrees at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, with a focus on cello and conducting. After a successful career as a modern cellist, he went to the Netherlands in 1984 to study Baroque cello with the Dutch period-instrument pioneer Anner Bylsma. Suzuki won first prize at the First International Baroque Cello Competition in Paris in 1986. He was a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under Frans Brüggen from 1985 to 1993, then principal cellist of La Petite Bande with Sigiswald Kuijken between 1992 and 2001. He was professor of Baroque Cello at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels from 1994 to 2000. His students have included Antje Geusen, Christoph Theinert Tormod Dalen, and Mime Yamahiro. In 2001, Suzuki returned to Japan, where he serves on the faculty of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 2001, he founded and became conductor of Orchestra Libera Classica, a period-instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the '' Nihon Shoki'', which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201.Ikuta Shrine official website – "History of Ikuta Shrine" (Japanese) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
