Yasunori Imamura
Yasunori Imamura (Japanese今 村 泰 典, Yasunori Imamura; * October 19, 1953 in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese lute.
Career
He studied lute with Eugen Müller- Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where he graduated with a soloist diploma. He also studied interpretation and bass with Ton Koopman and Johann Sonnleitner and composition with Wolfgang Neininger.
Today, Yasunori Imamura is in demand as a soloist and continuo player worldwide and has participated in over 120 recordings as a soloist and continuo player with. His solo recordings include all the lute works of Johann Sebastian Bach, three volumes of sound Sonatas by Silvius Leopold Weiss, pièces pour theorbo by Robert de Visée and all fantasies of Simone Molinaro.
As a continuo player he has worked with artists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Teresa Berganza, Gérard Lesne, Marc Minkowski, Michael Schneider, Martin Gester, Maurice Steger, Masaaki Suzuki, Alan Curtis and Paul Goodwin.
Imamura is a member of the ensemble " La Stagione Frankfurt ," " Les Musiciens du Louvre ", " Camerata Köln ", " Le Parlement de Musique " and the " Il Complesso Barocco ." In 1997, Yasunori Imamura, the ensemble " FONS MUSICAE " with whom he has performed throughout Europe and the Far East. Until now, the ensemble has five CDs (M. Lambert, G. Bononcini, A. Steffani and A. Caldara and F. Gasparini ) was added, which have won several awards such as " Classica " or " Star of the Month".
He works as a professor of lute at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg. At the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main, he has held the lectureship for lute. He also regularly gives master classes in Europe and the Far East.
Awards
- 2010 Culture Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
- Diapasion d' Or ( " Diapason ", France)
- Le Joker ( " Crescendo ", Belgium)