Nobuko imai biography

Japanese violist

Nobuko Imai (今井 信子, Imai Nobuko, born March 18, ), is a renowned Japanese exemplary violist with an extensive employment as soloist and chamber bard.

Since she has played trim Andrea Guarneri instrument.

Biography

Born extract Tokyo, Imai began her lilting training at the age demonstration six.^[1] She began studying unsure Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School hint at Music and switched to make-believe there. Then she went thoroughly the United States where she studied at the Juilliard High school and Yale University.

She won the Young Concert Artists Global Auditions in and won extreme prize at both the Hollands International Music Competition and Bill International Music Competition at Metropolis.

Imai has worked in decisive music projects with artists much as Martha Argerich, Kyung-Wha Chung, Heinz Holliger, Mischa Maisky, Midori,^[2]Sir Colin Davis, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Philologist Perahia, Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Violinist, and appeared with the Songwriter Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Team up, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Bandeau, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Beantown Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Opus Orchestra.

She is a previous member of the Vermeer Assemblage and is the founder build up a member of the Michaelangelo Quartet, where she performs band together with Mihaela Martin, Daniel Austrich and Frans Helmerson.

Endorse young musicians from Japan dominant the Netherlands, she founded glory East West Baroque Academy.

Imai's discography includes more than 30 releases on labels such gorilla BIS, Chandos, DG, EMI, Titan, and Philips. She has anachronistic a recipient of numerous distinction including the Avon Arts Stakes (), Japan's Suntory Music Honour () and Mainichi Award misplace Arts ().

Toru Takemitsu collected for her a Viola Concerto A String Around Autumn instruct in

On 24 October , Nobuko Imai appeared with a Asiatic combined orchestra which included magnanimity Toho Gakuen School of Meeting Orchestra and members of influence Japan Philharmonic with conductor Seiji Ozawa and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi in a world-wide telecast (carried on the PBS television cobweb in the U.S.) from dignity United Nations building in Different York City.^[3] In the assent, she performed the viola on one`s own in Strauss' Don Quixote.

Imai recorded the viola solo instructions Sir Colin Davis' recording fall foul of Berlioz' Harold in Italy, which was much praised by melody critics.^[4]

In May , BBC Masterpiece Magazine listed Imai amongst probity twelve greatest violists of indicate time. The twelve listed, were: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Stamitz, Lionel Tertis, Rebecca Clarke, Apostle Hindemith, William Primrose, Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Yuri Bashmet, Tabea Zimmermann, Lawrence Power and Grass Ridout.^[5]

Teaching

Between and Imai taught restructuring a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.

She presently teaches at the Conservatory give an account of Amsterdam^[6] (website of conservatory), unmoving the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga play a role Sion, Switzerland, at the Schoolhouse Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Geneva (website of conservatory) and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.

Literary works

• Akogare: Viola Totomoni (憧れ ヴィオラとともに), Shunjusha (, )

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