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Masaaki Suzuki was born on 29 April, 1954 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. Discover Masaaki Suzuki's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Conductor Organist Harpsichordist Musicologist
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 29 April 1954
Birthday 29 April
Birthplace Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Nationality Hyogo

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Masaaki Suzuki (鈴木 雅明) is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan.

With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ.

He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.

Suzuki was born in Kobe to parents who were both Protestant Christians and amateur musicians; his father had worked professionally as a pianist.

Suzuki has as an adult joined the Reformed Church in Japan, a Calvinist denomination.

Masaaki Suzuki began playing organ professionally at church services at the age of 12.

He earned degrees in composition and organ at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, then earned Soloist Diplomas at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he studied harpsichord and organ with Ton Koopman and Piet Kee and improvisation with Klaas Bolt.

1981

From 1981 to 1983 he was a harpsichord instructor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Duisburg, Germany.

1983

In 1983 he returned to Japan, where he began teaching at Kobe Shoin Women's University.

1990

In 1990 he founded Bach Collegium Japan, a baroque orchestra and chorus.

1992

The group began performing concerts regularly in 1992, and made its first recordings three years later, when they began recording Bach's complete cantatas for the Swedish label BIS Records.

2000

The ensemble has also recorded all the large choral works of Bach; their St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio were both selected as Gramophone’s "Recommended Recordings," and the St. John Passion was also winner in the 18th and 19th-century choral music category at the Cannes Classical Awards in 2000.

2010

Their recording of Bach's Motets won a German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik), Diapason d'Or of the Year 2010 and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2011; their recording of the Mass in B Minor won the Diapason d'Or in 2008.

Suzuki is also currently recording Bach's complete works for solo harpsichord and is one of the few keyboard players to have recorded all four books of Bach's Clavier-Übung (including book 3, which is for organ).

He and the Bach Collegium Japan have also recorded the Bach concertos for violin and his Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites.

With his son Masato Suzuki (a harpsichordist, organist, conductor and composer), he and Bach Collegium Japan recently recorded Bach's complete concertos for two harpsichords.

Suzuki is the founder of the early music department at the Tokyo University of the Arts and taught there until 2010.

He is now Principal Guest Conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum and Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting at Yale University in a joint appointment between the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he is Artist in Residence.

As a guest conductor, Suzuki has led the Academy of Ancient Music, the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, Collegium Vocale Gent, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich.

2013

They completed the 55-volume series of church cantatas in 2013.

2015

He has also begun recording a cycle of Bach's organ music for the BIS label; the first release was in 2015.

Suzuki has also, with the Bach Collegium Japan, recorded the Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and choral music of Johann Rudolf Ahle, Georg Frideric Handel, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Heinrich Schutz, Johann Kuhnau, Marco Giuseppe Peranda, and others.

As a soloist he has recorded music of Dietrich Buxtehude and Francois Couperin, among others.

He and the Bach Collegium Japan have also recorded the Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven in the arrangement by Wagner that replaces the orchestra with a solo piano, which is played on the recording by pianist Noriko Ogawa.

With his brother, the baroque cello virtuoso Hidemi Suzuki, he has recorded chamber music by George Frideric Handel and others.

2018

They completed Bach's secular cantatas (in 10 albums) in 2018.

They have also recorded all of Bach's Lutheran Masses.