Naoki Tsurusaki (Cello, Composer) Sonata and Chamber Music Series Vol.5

Program

Lv Beethoven: String Quartet No.12
Lv Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12

Naoki Tsurusaki: "Memory of a certain landscape" for clarinet and string quartet
Naoki Tsurusaki: "Memoire d'un paysage"

J.Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
J. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet

Toru Takemitsu: Landscape I
T. Takemitsu: Landscape I

Profile

Naoki Tsurusaki, violoncello (cello)
Born in 1953. In 1975, while studying at Tokyo University of the Arts, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire National Conservatoire as a French government scholarship student and graduated with the first prize. Studied under Mr. Takayuki Miki, the late Reine Frachaud, and the late Maurice Gendron. In addition to performing with the Lyon Chamber Orchestra, the Hokkaido Symphony Orchestra, the Ebetsu String Ensemble, Michio Kobayashi, Katsumi Ueda, Ichiro Nodaira, and Kazushi Ono, he has performed at the Aix-en-Provence Music Festival and the Berlioz Music Festival. World premiere of Ichiro Nohira's "Two Portraits" for cello and piano in the Chamber Music Series at the Opera de Lyon. Bach's "Unaccompanied Cello Suite" full-length live recording was released by Live Notes and was well received. 《When you listen to it, you will be tempted by an emotion that transcends reason. […] and the passage from the abyss of No. 5 to the exaltation of No. 6 is also particularly memorable. It is a great pleasure to know this extraordinary cellist in such a happy way. 》(Jiro Hamada "Record Geijutsu" May 2005 Semi-Special)
In recent years, he has also focused on composing, including "Impromptu II" and "Memory of a Scenery" for piano and clarinet in the chamber music series of the Lyon Opera. In 2007, in Hiroshima and Nara, the revised version "Memory of a Scenery" for clarinet and string quartet was premiered and received favorable reviews. A member of the Lyon Opera House since its founding.

- Florestan Quartet (Vn. Maki Ueno/Haruyo Tsurusaki, Va. Nachiko Ueno, Vc. Naoki Tsurusaki)
Formed in 1990 by Maki Ueno, Haruyo Tsurusaki (Vn), Nachiko Ueno (Va) and Naoki Tsurusaki (Vc). With a repertoire of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, etc., he has given major performances in France, Germany and Japan. In 1996, Beethoven's "Great Fugue" was recorded for NHK FM broadcasting. In 1998, at the request of the Union of German Composers, W.Th. Hein Traumbild, O. Benninghoff String Trio and KH Waren Ricordandi a Verdi G. Wiesemann Ausklang inzndig Einklang were recorded on CD. (Best.-Nr. 10033)

-Jean-Michel Bertelli (clarinet)
After winning the 1st Special Prize in the Virtuoso Class of Thomas Friedri at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva, in 1986 he won the 1st Prize in the International Competition of the International Clarinet Society in New York. The following year, he won the second prize at the Toulon International Competition. He has been invited as a soloist and chamber musician in Japan, America, New Zealand, etc. He has performed with conductors such as Paul Polivnik, Kent Nagano, Paul Freeman, Gerard Korsten and William Christie at the Manchester Halle Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Lyon Opera Symphony Orchestra and others.
The Clarinet Concerto, dedicated by American composer Richard Feliciano, premiered in San Francisco and was recorded on CD in Prague by Albany Records (US).
In chamber music, he has performed with the Britten Quartet, the Vertavo Quartet, the Tchaikovsky Trio, Pierre Laurent, Aimard, Christian Ivaldi, Peter Chava, Nancy Argenta, and Editta Grverova.
Interested in epoch instruments, he was invited by JE Gardiner to serve as principal of the English Baroque Soloists, Revolitionaire & Romantic Orchestra, from 1999 to 2003. In 2008, he was principal guest of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.
In response to numerous requests from the world's major musical instrument manufacturers, YAMAHA MUSIC EIROPA since 1994, RICO since 2008, and has a cooperative relationship with BG-France. I give concerts and masterclasses.
Currently, he is the principal clarinetist of the Lyon National Opera Orchestra.