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Danjulo Ishizaka (born 14 May 1979) is a German
cellist and
professor
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at the
Berlin University of Arts and
City of Basel Music Academy
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Life
Ishizaka, born in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...
, Germany, is the son of the German piano teacher Ruth Nathrath and Japanese immigrant Junkichi Ishizaka. His sister is the pianist
Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka. He began taking cello lessons at the age of 4. He was a student of
Boris Pergamenschikow in Berlin from 1998 until Pergamenschikow's death in 2004, at which point he completed his studies with
Tabea Zimmermann
Tabea Zimmermann (born 8 October 1966) is a German violist.
Born in Lahr, she began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five. At the age of 13, she studied viola with Ulrich Koch at the Conservat ...
.
Work
Ishizaka has been a soloist with many orchestras, including the
NHK Symphony Orchestra, the
London Philharmonic Orchestra, all 5
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Orchestras, the
Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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History
In 1672, the Paris ...
, the
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
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, the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
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under directors including
Gerd Albrecht
Gerd Albrecht (19 July 1935 – 2 February 2014) was a German conductor.
Biography
Albrecht was born in Essen, the son of the musicologist Hans Albrecht (1902–1961). He studied music in Kiel and in Hamburg, where his teachers included Wilhel ...
,
Andrew Davis,
Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor.
Early life
Eschenbach was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross) and Heribert Ringmann. He was orphaned durin ...
,
Lawrence Foster
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,
Michail and
Vladimir Jurowski
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Early life
Born in Moscow, Jurowski began h ...
, Sir
Roger Norrington,
Mstislav Rostropovich and
Leonard Slatkin
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Early life and education
Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His fat ...
. He has further performed with artists including
Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer ( lv, Gidons Krēmers; born 27 February 1947) is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica.
Life and career
Gidon Kremer was born in Riga. His father was Jewish and had survived the Holo ...
,
Lisa Batiashvili
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,
Viviane Hagner,
Tabea Zimmermann
Tabea Zimmermann (born 8 October 1966) is a German violist.
Born in Lahr, she began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five. At the age of 13, she studied viola with Ulrich Koch at the Conservat ...
,
Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer (born 15 June 1983) is a German classical violinist and pianist.[Baiba Skride
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Background and studies
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,
Antje Weithaas,
Veronika Eberle,
Martin Helmchen
Martin Helmchen (born 1982) is a German pianist. He has played with international orchestras and has recorded discs of many classical composers.
Life
Helmchen was born in Berlin. He began his piano studies at the age of six, and graduated from th ...
and
Ray Chen
Ray Chen (born 6 March 1989) is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the first prize winner of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition.
Career
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen began ...
. His international debut took place with the
Vienna Symphony
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in the
Wiener Musikverein
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The acoustics of the building's 'Great ...
under direction of
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', ' ...
. The cellist Rostropovich described Danjulo Ishizaka's artistry with the words: "phenomenal in his technical abilities, perfect in his power of interpretation."
From 2004 to 2013, Ishizaka played the Stradivarius "Lord Aylesford", previously played by
Janos Starker
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, and later played the
De Munck-Feuermann (1730). Both celli were provided to him by the Nippon Music Foundation. Ishizaka also plays the Schnabl "Pergamenschikow" cello, provided to him by the Kronberg Academy.
Awards
* 1st prize at the international "
Gaspar Cassado-Competition", 1998 in Spain
* 1st prize at the Internationalen Lutoslawski Competition 1999 in Warsaw
* 1st prize at the
ARD International Music Competition
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Si ...
2001
* 1st prize at the
Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann of the
Kronberg Academy
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and the
Universität der Künste Berlin
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2002
In 2006 his debut CD recording was released by
Sony
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, and received the
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of the
German Phono Academy. In 2007–2008, Ishizaka was chosen for the
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme
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Each autumn six or seven young artists at the beginning of careers on the n ...
. In 2012 he was awarded the
Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, one of the most prestiged music awards in Japan, given by the
Sony
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Music Foundation in
Tokyo
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.
Ishizaka's 2013 collaboration with the
Pavel Haas Quartet
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was awarded a
Gramophone Award
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for the Chamber category in 2014. "In the Quintet they have the perfect partner in cellist Danjulo Ishizaka – and there’s no sense of a quartet plus one"
Discography
Reviews
"The only area in which there seems to be no contrast or conflict is over his prodigious technique, and to hear him live is to appreciate not only how free of any technical boundaries he is but also how that has translated into his performances as a disarming lack of egotism."
"Ishizaka is simply sensational in Kodály’s Solo Sonata. He proves masterly in creating cogency with what can often seem quite rhapsodic material."
"Ishizaka also gives us a cogent, virtuoso reading of Kodály's magnificent, soulful Solo Cello Sonata. This is a terrifying piece to play, a work which, in Ishizaka's words, “demolishes the limits of what was thought technically possible on the cello at the time.” The last movement's pyrotechnics are dazzling, but the sonata's sparer, haunted passages are equally effective – the slow movement's dark opening is marvellous in Ishizaka's hands. A superb recital."
The Arts Desk
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References
Sources
Official website
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1979 births
Living people
Musicians from Bonn
German classical cellists
German people of Japanese descent