"Mito dell'arco" 4th Concert (English) / Concert Hall ATM, ART TOWER MITO

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Mito dell'Arco (ATM's in-house original instrument quartet)
4th Concert: "An Afternoon in Madrid ? Boccherini-style"

Apr. 14, 2002 (Sun.)
2:00 p.m. (seating starts at 1:30 p.m.)
Concert Hall ATM
A ¥3,000 / B ¥2,000 (All seats reserved)

Program
Boccherini: Guitar quintet in E, G. 446
Boccherini: String quartet in C, G. 215
Boccherini: String quartet in E-flat, G. 243
Boccherini: Guitar quintet in D, G. 448, "Fandango"

Gentler than Haydn and softer than Mozart, the music of Boccherini can be summed up with the Italian phrases, "sotto voce" (whispering), "dolcissimo" (extremely sweet), and "con grazia" (graceful).

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), born in Lucca, Italy, spent the last half of life in Madrid, Spain. Both a cellist and composer, Boccherini was quietly a personal witness, through his own music, to the grand shift that took place in the music world in the late 1700s away from the aristocracy and toward the common man. The delicate sound of his string music completely and accurately depicts the rhythm of the fandango, reverberating along the cobblestone, combined with the fanfare of the army coming from afar, along with the gentle touch of the changing air on the skin as afternoon turns into evening.

Mito dell'Arco, ATM's in-house original-instrument ensemble, takes the works of Boccherini as the theme of its fourth concert. In a string quartet, each part has a very important role to play, and the group shows us how lively and joyful string quartets used to be as a genre in that period. Their program also includes a guitar quintet, welcoming Shin'ichi Fukuda, an internationally-active guitarist from Japan.

As the individual members of Mito dell'Arco conduct a musical conversation with original instruments, you will see a spring afternoon at the ATM Concert Hall transform before your very eyes into the streets of Madrid!

Mito dell'arco

Art Tower Mito's fourth in-house ensemble, Mito dell'arco was formed in 1999 as a string quartet playing original instruments. The group's name comes from the Italian words, "mito," which means "myth," and "arco," which means "bow." Of course, "Mito" is also the name of the historical town in which Art Tower Mito is situated. There are four members in the group -- Ryo Terakado, Dmitry Badiarov, Yoshiko Morita, and Hidemi Suzuki -- all excellent musicians in their own right, particularly on original instruments.

Their first concert, in September 1999, featured works by Haydn and Mozart, and received top critical acclaim. In the Asahi Shimbun, the music critic Seiji Choki praised them, saying, "The four members have achieved an feeling of minute musical structure as a result of their uniform conversation and fusion." The same concert was broadcast nationwide on NHK-FM's "Best of the Classics" program. The group repeated the same program in concerts at Tokyo and Yamaguchi. High expectations are being pinned on Mito dell'arco, Japan's first full-time string quartet using original instruments, as they shed a new light on the masterpieces of the repertoire, including both classical and Romantic works.

Performers

Ryo Terakado (classical violin)

Born in 1961 in Bolivia, Terakado graduated first in his class from the Toho Gakuen College of Music in 1984. Although he had been the concertmaster of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, he quit that group to devote his whole time to performing on original instruments. He then travelled abroad to study at the Dutch Royal Academy of Music in The Hague, studying under Sigiswald Kuijken.
His talent having been recognized while he was in school, he served as concertmaster in several major European original instrument orchestras.
He now is concertmaster of two ensembles: La Petite Bande (LPB) and Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ).
With brilliant achievements both as a soloist and a chamber musician, Terakado continues his activities as one of Japan's representative original instrument performers.
He has also made quite a few recordings, with his CDs of Corelli sonatas (1995) and Mozart concertos (1996) both winning prizes from Japan's Record Academy. He is currently recording all of Beethoven violin sonatas.

Dmitry Badiarov (classical violin)

Both violinist and luthier, born in 1969.
He studied violin playing with Profs. Semion Ziskind, Mark Komissarov and Oleg Shoulpiakov.
In 1993 he graduated from St. Petersburg State Conservatory, and in 2000 from Brussels Royal Conservatory, where he studied baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken, Francois Fernandez and Luis Otavio Santos, musicology with Peter Van Heyghen, and chamber music with Herman Stinders and Peter Van Heyghen.
In 2000 attained a diploma with distinction.

Baroque Violin and Viola da braccio research & reconstruction site by Dmitry Badiarov
http://www.violadabraccio.com/

Yoshiko Morita (classical viola)

Graduate of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Morita has studied the viola under Fumiki Asatsuma, Toshiyuki Uzuka, Yuki Hyakutake, and Ulrich Koch. She placed 3rd in the 30th Student Music Competition.
Ever since the time of her graduation, Morita has demonstrated an interest in original instruments, studying ancient music performance techniques under Toshinari Ohashi, Sadao Udagawa, as well as the baroque violin under Natsumi Wakamatsu, Katharine Macintosh, and Enrico Gatti.
She belongs to several ensembles: the BCJ, the Tokyo Bach Mozart Orchestra, the L'Estro Armonico Tokyo, and the Collegium Argentum.
Morita is also active performing with modern instruments.

Hidemi Suzuki (classical violoncello)

Born in Kobe in 1957, Suzuki graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Music, studying under Yoritoyo Inoue and Ken-ichiro Yasuda.
He placed first in the 48th Japan Music Competition, and won special honors in the 27th Kaigai Haken (to send artists abroad) Music Competition.
Since the time he was a student, Suzuki has been active in performing with original instruments. He studied at the Dutch Royal Academy of Music at The Hague in 1984 under Anner Bylsma. In 1986, he took 1st place at the 1st Paris Baroque Cello Competition. After that, he has been active worldwide as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Between 1985 and 1993, he belonged to the 18th Century Orchestra.
At present, Suzuki is the soloist for the LPB, and also belongs to the BCJ as a basso continuo performer.
His recording career has also been busy. He is the first Japanese musician to make recordings exclusively under the Harmonia Mundi label of Germany, having released CDs of works by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, and other composers. His CD of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites won the Art Festival Prize from the Japanese Agency of Culture, and his CD of Haydn's Cello Concertos with the LPB won a prize in the Japan's Record Academy's Concerto Division.

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