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ARTIST: IPALPITI ORCHESTAL ENSEMBLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAUREATES, EDUARD SCHMIEDER, CONDUCTOR, SAYAKO KUSAKA (VIOLIN SOLOIST)

TITLE: “THE SEASONS VIVALDI/PIAZZOLLA”

TRACK LISTING SEE PHOTOS: THERE'S SOME VIDEO ON YUOTUBE, AND THIS REVIEW WAS POSTED THERE ALSO: Los Angeles Times’ review “Seasonal renewal from Vivaldi” on this iPalpiti's 10th anniversary concert at Disney Hall, July 26, 2007, commended Sayako Kusaka as ”a secure, fluent soloist who tended to use vibrato sparingly and resisted any grandstanding…her collaborations with German concertmaster Peter Rainer ts and degrees of dynamic for expressive ends. The musicians played with vivid unanimity." Bill Cunliffe, Pianist. Nicholas Canellakis, cello.

LABLE: YOUNG ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL RECORDS (CLASSICAL INDIE LABEL)

CAT.#: NONE

YEAR: 2007

CONDITION: THIS IS OPENED BUT UNPLAYED, BOTH CD's IS IN NM CONDITION, COMES WITH A 6 PANEL FOLDOUT WITH LINER NOTES, ARTIST BIO ON THE BACK. THIS AND THE BACK TRAY INSERT IN NM. CONDITION.

MORE INFO: THIS CD IS OUT OF PRINT. FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. NOT FINDING ANY OTHER COPIES OF THIS ONLINE....HMMMM

MORE INFO:

SAYAKO KUSAKA VIOLINIST INFO/B

She began her musical training in Tokyo. Her teachers were Takashi Shimizu at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts in Japan, Eduard Schmieder at the Southern Methodist University in USA, and Rainer Kussmaul at the Freiburg Musikhochschule in Germany.

Sayako Kusaka has received many prizes. In 2005 she was nominated “Best Musician Of The Year” by the Japan Music Critics Association. In 2009 she received the prestigious “Idemitsu Music Award”. She won prizes at the Pablo de Sarasate Violin Competition (1995, Forth Prize), Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Finnland (2000, Third Prize), and Japan Music Competition (2000, First Prize). At the Premio Paganini Violin Competition in Italy (2001) she was awarded a silver medal and the Best Interpretation of Caprice Award. At the Rudolfo Lipizer Violin Competition in Italy (2002) she received the First Prize and also won seven special prizes – the maximum for which she was eligible – including awards for best performances of Bach, Mozart, contemporary compositions and more.

Sayako Kusaka soloed internationally with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester Berlin, Kirov Staatsorchester, Bacau Philharmonic, Ecuador Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony, New Japan Symphony, Kansai Philharmonic, Kyoto Philharmonic, Sendai Symphony, Meadows Symphony, and Kremerata Baltica at the Lockenhaus-Fest 2010.

Sayako Kusaka has been a member of the Konzerthaus String Quartet Berlin since 2013 and the Streichtrio Berlin since 2016. She plays a violin by Joannes Franciscus Pressenda (Torino) from 1822.




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