Maasaki Suzuki Public Masterclass

When
15 Nov 2017
4:15 PM
Location
Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Maasaki Suzuki Public Masterclass

Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall
45 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Wednesday, November 15 at 4:15pm

Maasaki Suzuki, award-winning Japanese organist, harpsichordist, and conductor presents Bach Cantata106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit. The public is invited to this free Master Class by Mr. Suzuki (Christoph Wolff Distinguished Scholar Residency) featuring Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.

Masaaki Suzuki is a Conductor and the Founder and Artistic Director of Bach Collegium Japan. Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has established himself as a leading authority on the works of Bach. He has remained their Music Director ever since, taking them regularly to major venues and festivals in Europe and the USA and building up an outstanding reputation for the expressive refinement and truth of his performances.

Masaaki Suzuki combines his conducting career with his work as organist and harpsichordist. Born in Kobe, he graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a degree in composition and organ performance and went on to study harpsichord and organ at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam under Ton Koopman and Piet Kee. Founder and Professor Emeritus of the early music department at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he was on the choral conducting faculty at the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music from 2009 until 2013, where he remains affiliated as the principal guest conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum.

THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON