(born July 28, 1942 in
Tokyo
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) is a
Japanese
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cellist. He started to study music under the tutorship of
Hideo Saito, founder of the Tokyo Conservatory.
["Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]
Tsutsumi made his debut as cellist when he was 12 years old with the
Tokyo Philharmonic
The is recognized as the oldest symphony orchestra in Japan. It was founded in 1911 and debuted at the original Matsuzakaya store in Nagoya as the . It relocated to Tokyo in 1938. As of 2005, it has 166 members.
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and at 18 he gave his first concert tour as soloist with the
NHK Symphony Orchestra throughout India, Russia and Europe.
He was granted a
Fulbright Scholarship to study at
Indiana University
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with
János Starker
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. He won first prize at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1963 at Budapest. He completed his Artist Diploma in Instrumental Performance at Indiana University in 1965 and was offered a position the following year by
Western University, where he performed and taught until 1984. Tsutsumi was with
Western University from 1966 to 1984 and later with Illinois University. From 1988 to 2006 he was professor of cello at
Indiana University
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. He has been Visiting Professor of cello at Seoul National University of the Arts since 2017, where one of his students won 1st place at the 2019 David Popper International Cello Competition. He was a jurist at the 2019 Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition in Moscow.
His concert performances have taken him around the world to perform as soloist with the most important orchestras, including the
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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, the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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of Amsterdam, the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
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, the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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, the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, the
National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., the
Munich Philharmonic
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, the
ORTF or
Orchestre National de France
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,
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
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,
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (NKO; Dutch, ''Nederlands Kamerorkest'') is a Dutch chamber orchestra based in Amsterdam. The NKO is part of the ''Stichting Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest'' (Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation), alon ...
, the
Rotterdam Philharmonic
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, London's
Philharmonia Orchestra, the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
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, the
Czech Philharmonic, the
Warsaw Philharmonic
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, the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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of Rome, the
Indianapolis Symphony, the
Toronto Symphony
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and
Vancouver Symphony orchestras, among many others. He has toured Japan with Canada's
National Arts Centre Orchestra
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of Ottawa. He has participated in festivals such as the
Algoma Fall, Banff, Guelph Spring,
Ontario Place
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, and
Stratford in Canada, and the
Ravinia in the United States.
He has appeared with the most prestigious maestros:
Seiji Ozawa,
Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Biography
Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervi ...
,
Mstislav Rostropovich,
Valery Gergiev
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,
Zdenek Kosler (with whom he recorded the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for CBS/Sony Records),
Eiji Oue
is a Japanese conductor.
Biography
Oue began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978, Seiji Ozawa invited him to spend the summer studying at the Tanglewood Music Center. There he met Leonard Bern ...
and the musicians
Gervase de Peyer
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,
Ronald Turini (with whom he recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano for CBS/Sony Records),
Emanuel Ax
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Ax was born to a Polish-Jewish family in Lviv, Ukraine, (in what was then the Soviet Union) to Joachim and ...
,
Yo-Yo Ma
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,
Nobuko Imai
, is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument.
Biography
Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo' ...
,
Steven Staryk
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,
Adele Marcus
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,
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,
Wolfgang Sawallisch
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(with whom he recorded the two Brahms sonatas for cello and piano for CBS/Sony Records), and many others. He has recorded the Bach solo cello suites on three different occasions for CBS/Sony recordings.
He is beloved throughout the world of cello students because he is the cellist on most of the famous
Suzuki CDs which accompany the Suzuki cello practice books. Tsutsumi's style and intonation in these recordings inspire thousands of students every day when they practice along with him.
Among the many distinctions received, he was awarded the 1970
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for his contribution to the world of music.
In November 2009, Tsutsumi was awarded with a
Medal of Honour with purple ribbon
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by the
Government of Japan
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.
["678 individuals, 24 groups awarded Medals of Honor," '']Mainichi Shimbun
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.'' November 2, 2009 (in Japanese).
He is married to playwright and scholar
Harue Tsutsumi
Harue Tsutsumi (堤春恵, Tsutsumi Harue; born 1950) is a Japanese playwright. She specializes in kabuki, specifically kabuki in the Meiji Era.
Biography
Tsutsumi was born in 1950 in Osaka, Japan. Tsutsumi earned her master’s in theatre hist ...
.
References
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1942 births
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Living people
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
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