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Takayoshi Wanami, Violin |
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Takayoshi Wanami is considered one of the finest violinists of his generation, known for his consummate technical command of the violin and performances that are laced with a sense of profound humanity. Mr. Wanami began the violin at the age of four, and studied with violinists such as David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti. He made his orchestral debut in Tokyo with the Japan Philharmonic in 1963 and a year later toured the United States. The following year he was a prize-winner in the Long-Thibaud International Competition (Paris) and, in 1970, in the Carl Flesch International Competition (London). Mr. Wanami was awarded the Ysaye Medal by the Ysaye foundation in Brussels.the when he was only eighteen years old.
Takayoshi Wanami has performed with the world's leading orchestras including
the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, the City of
Birmingham Symphony, the Boston Pops, Lucerne Festival Strings, Zurich
Chamber, Slovak Chamber, London Mozart Players and many others, including
all the major Japanese orchestras. Conductors with whom he has collaborated
include Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur,
Tadaaki Otaka and Seiji Ozawa. On the recital platform, he performs regularly
with pianist Mineko Tsuchiya, with whom he has given many highly acclaimed
recitals or an expansive repertoire including contemporary Japanese works.
Besides a busy concert schedule, Mr. Wanami teaches at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen
School of Music and Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, and at the
annual summer course in Yatsugatake. He has conducted master-classes at
the Purcell School in London, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
and the Kodály School of Music in Debrecen, Hungary.
Mr. Wanami has also performed on many critically acclaimed recordings, including the concertos of Brahms and Schumann with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1993) and the complete solo sonatas of Ysaye (1999), the solo violin Sonatas and Partitas by J. S. Bach, sonatas by Brahms and Prokofiev with Mineko Tsuchiya, a live recording of Schubert's piano trio and piano quintet.
In 1991, Takayoshi Wanami founded the Izumigo Festival Orchestra, of which he is the conductor, and since the same year, he has been giving an annual concert series in Tokyo entitled the "Christmas Bach Series." Another series entitled "Takayoshi Wanami Afternoon Concert - Talk and Play" also attracts large audiences.
In 1998, Mr.Wanami gave a series of three recitals at the South Bank Center in London performing all solo works by J. S. Bach and Ysaye, and in 1999 he was invited to play the same program at Hay-On-Wye Festival. During the 2001/2002 season, he gave a live broadcast recital in Budapest, and a solo recital of Bach works in Tokyo on the baroque violin.
For his outstanding contribution to classical music in Japan, Mr. Wanami received the Mobil Music Award in 1993 and the Suntory Music Award in 1995. His autobiography and a collection of his essays were recently published in Japan.
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