Bach Collegium Japan

The Bach Collegium Japan, consisting of Baroque orchestra and choir, was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki to make works of the Baroque period known in historical performance practice in Japan. It has its headquarters in Tokyo and Kobe. Tributary, the Collegium especially works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein and Georg Böhm dedicated.

The Bach Collegium Japan has claimed success in Japan now also in the European concert and festival scene a fixed place and often cooperates with European artists such as Michael Chance, Peter Kooij, Christoph Prégardien or Dominik Wörner.

After recordings of Bach's Passions, Handel's Messiah and Monteverdi's Vespers, the ensemble began in 1995 on the occasion of 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II with a recording of the complete Bach cantatas.

Masaaki Suzuki, born in 1954 in Kobe, is trained as a classical training as an organist, harpsichordist and composer in Tokyo and Amsterdam, among others, with Ton Koopman. He is professor of organ and harpsichord at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. As a motivation for his intensive study of Bach, he also referred to his own Christian faith.

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