Yves Lafontaine

Yves Lafontaine (* July 16, 1959 in Grand- Mère, Quebec, Canada ) is a Canadian musician, violin maker and poet.

Youth

Yves Lafontaine was born the sixth child of Jeanne d' Arc and the bank employee Henri Lafontaine Lafontaine. He was musically and artistically decisively influenced by his father, an amateur singer. From playing music in childhood is a special fondness for playing the classical guitar developed in youth.

Training

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he attended the Conservatory of Music in Quebec a Trois - Riveres. There, the classical guitar with Jean Vallieres, chamber music studied with Walter Joachim and viola with Alfred Filek. After completion of the second semester began his professional career in the field of classical guitar.

From 1983, he studied in Nice, France at the " Académie Internationale d' Eté " with Alexandre Carel Lagoya and Harms ( classical guitar ). During this time he also studied musicology at J. Chailley and finished the conducting class at Fernand Quattrocchi.

In the years 1985 - 1986 he worked extensively with a wide variety of ways to play for Lute during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. His in-depth knowledge in this area, he added through research at the Bavarian State Library and the Spanish National Library.

After returning to Canada, he studied in 1991, the subject " East Asian Studies " at the University of McGill in Montreal, with the completion of the Bachelor. After a Japanese language course at the University of Tsukuba, which was supported by the Japanese government, he completed his conducting studies at the University of Art and Music Tokyo.

In 2007, he went to a seminar for bow making, under the direction of Giovanni Lucchi and Pierre Guillaume in Lombardy / Italy.

In the period to 2008 he studied in Cremona / Italy at the Antonio Stradivari violin making under the guidance of Ernesto Vaia, Giorgio Scolari and Lorenzo Marchi violin building trade. Based on this, he graduated from the same institution training in restoration of stringed instruments with Alessandro Voltini, Claudio Amighetti and Andrea Ortona, which he completed in 2010.

Private

On September 9, 1993 married Yves Lafontaine Yuko Ideguchi that he had met while studying at the University of Tsukuba. The couple has four children. Y.L. has Canadian citizenship, a double residence permit for Italy and Japan, and an apartment in Japan. He is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese .. Lafontaine is also a good swimmer and hicker.

Career

Conductor

Y.L. began his career in Canada as a choral conductor, later moved to the instrumental platform, where he put together your own arrangements. As a conductor, he is mainly active in Japan since 1990. He conducted there, the " Narita Philharmonic Orchestra ", the " Makuhari Philharmonic Orchestra ", the " Kyoto Phil Musica Orchestra, the Haydn Sinfonietta " and the " Opera dei Fiori " of Tokyo. He also worked as a staff conductor of the " Philharmonia Tokyio " symphony orchestra. Currently YL is active in Italy.

Musician

Writer

Lafontaine is also active as a writer ( French poetry). He also wrote music technical papers.

Instruments

Y.L. plays the " Girollet ", a guitar from Contreras from the year 1989. He is holding a violin by Michèl Angelo Bergonzi, built in 1754.

Price

2007, in the Violin Making in Pisogne was his Viola " Nec Pluribus Impar " awarded the " Menzione Speciale per l ' Acustica ". (6 ) Catalogue NICPASSECH Editrice MILANO - Via Bernardino Telesio, 17

Discography

A private label released recordings of Bach, Scarlatti, Albeniz, Granados, de Falla, Todrigo, Sor and Pujol.