Kaori Joan Yamagami
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¡ÈInnovative Yamagami is one to follow...let¡Çs hope this recital was more but a teaser for many more Toronto appearances in the future.¡É Toronto StarCanadian cellist Kaori Yamagami (*1982) is the recent winner of the 2011 Virginia Parker Prize of $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts. Yamagami began her cello studies at the age of three and gave her solo debut already at the age of six. Since then the young cellist has received numerous prizes and has been invited both as soloist and chamber musician by numerous important orchestras and festivals in North America, Europe and Asia.
Kaori Yamagami has been soloist with such orchestras as Philadelphia Orchestra, L'Orchestre de Paris, CBC Radio Orchestra Vancouver, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She has also played at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and at the Kronberg Cello Festival in Germany, where she performed a shared recital with Natalia Gutman.
Chamber music partners of Yamagami were amongst others Gidon Kremer, Juri Bashmet, Eduard Brunner, Nils Monkemeyer and Daishin Kashimoto.
At the age of 13 Kaori Yamagami enrolled at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia and in the same year she was first prize winner of JAA Music Awards in New York/USA. In 1997 - at the age of 15 - she received the prize of the Most Promising Candidate at the International Rostropovich Competition in Paris. She was also the recipient of the Beebe Fellowship Award, Boston, the Sylvia Gelber Award from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ingrid zu Solms Prize from the Kronberg Academy and the Firmenich Cello Prize from the Verbier Festival & Academy.
Following her studies at the Curtis Institute, Yamagami continued at the New England Conservatory in Boston to study with Prof. Paul Katz in 2001.
In 2003 Yamagami won the Canada Council for the Arts Instrument Bank Competiton, which gave her the possibility to play the Bonjour Stradivari cello from 1696 and the Shaw Adam bow for three years until 2006. In 2003 she moved to Cologne/Germany to study with Prof. Frans Helmerson at Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz Koln, where she graduated with both Diplom and Konzertexamen degrees in 2010.
Kaori Yamagami took part in many master classes and summer academies where she worked with artists such as Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gary Hoffmann, Boris Pergamenschikow, Mario Brunello, Pamela Frank, Ralf Gathoni and Ralph Kirschbaum.
2005 Yamagami won 4th prize at the International Rostropovich Competition in Paris, 2007 the Diplom Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and 2008 2nd price at the Vibrarte International Competition in Paris.
In 2010 she was soloist on a tour of Germany with the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn. Since June, she was chosen as the recipient of a grant from the foundation Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung which organises solo and chamber music concerts in Germany. At the same time Yamagami was appointed the principle cello position with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. The orchestra is a unique ensemble consistent of 22 string players without conductor. For complete touring dates, please see www.sinfonietta.nl. In October 2010 she was invited back to teach the chamber music course ¡ÈMusik Miteinander¡É at the Kronberg Academy, Germany.
Kaori Yamagami is based in Cologne and Amsterdam and plays on a 1682 Giovanni Grancino cello generously on loan to her by a private Japanese sponsor.
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| Date | Tue 24/Mar/2009 18:30 |
| Venue | Hakodate City Hall(Large Hall) |
| Sapporo Symphony Orchestra Hakodate Concert ¡ÚPerformer¡Û Makoto Suehiro(conductor) Mayuko Kamio(violin) Kaoru Joan Yamagami Sapporo Symphony Orchestra ¡ÚProgram¡Û All Brahms Program Hungarian Dance No.1 in D minor Double Concerto in A minor Op.102 Symphony No.1 in C minor Op.68 ¡ÚPrice¡Û £Ó¡ï6,000¡¡£Á¡ï5,000¡¡£Â¡ï4,000 Pair Ticket¡ï11,000 ¡ÚInfo&Ticket¡Û Hakodate City Hall¡¡ +81-138-57-3111 |
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| Date | Fri 13/Mar/2009 15:00 Sat 14/Mar/2009 15:00 Sun 15/Mar/2009 15:00 |
| Venue | Hyogo Performing Arts Center |
| Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra The 23rd Subscription Concert ¡ÚPerformer¡Û Alexander Dmitriev(conductor) Mayuko Kamio(violin) Kaori Joan Yamagami(cello) Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra ¡ÚProgram¡Û Brahms. Dobule Concerto in A minor Op.102 Tchaikovsky. Symphony No.6 in B minor "Pathetique" Op.74 ¡ÚPrice¡Û £Á¡ï4,000¡¡£Â¡ï3,000¡¡£Ã¡ï2,000¡¡£Ä¡ï1,000 ¡ÚInfo&Ticket¡Û Hyogo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office¡¡ +81-798-68-0255 |
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| Date | Mon. 23/July/2007 19:00 |
| Venue | Musashino Civic Cultural Hall, Tokyo |
| Kaori Yamagami Cello Recital Piano Daria Tschaikowskaja Program Sammartini: Cello Sonata in G Brahms: Cello Sonata No.2 in F, Op.99 Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in d, Op.40 Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capricciosoOp.62 Price Sold Out Info&Tickets 03-3267-9990 |
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