Yumiko Nakagawa

NAKAGAWA Yumiko

Viola

Graduated from Tokyo College of Music
He studied under Toshiyuki Usatsuka, Hideki Oguni, Kazunori Kawasaki, and Milton Thomas.
He has given numerous recitals at the Louis Grehler Memorial Fund, JT Recital, NHK Afternoon Recital, Harvard University, and Boston Longy School of Music.
The Tokyo Beethoven Quartet has performed 35 regular concerts at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall annually and 482 Mignon Salon Concerts, and is currently honing its skills by performing the complete quartets of Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Schnittke.
Active both in Japan and abroad as a workshop designer and facilitator

What made you start playing an instrument?	I saw a violin lesson on TV.
What is important in a performance	I don't want to play well, I want to be used by God.
One of my favorite songs	R. Strauss: Symphonic poem "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" This dense, magical, and mysterious work, approximately 15 minutes long, is a colorful depiction of the story of the legendary eccentric "Till," who actually lived in 14th century Germany, was published in the 16th century, and has continued to be read for approximately 500 years to the present day. It is overflowing with orchestration ideas and is magically and mysteriously a work of approximately 15 minutes long. The piece begins with the opening strings, "Once upon a time...", as if reading a book aloud, followed by the main character, "Till", who is introduced in full by a solo horn. As each episode progresses, we are given a rare opportunity to immerse ourselves in a medieval worldview (!?) while searching for the motif of Till, who keeps getting up to mischief throughout the piece and continues to change until his death.

What made you start playing an instrument?

I saw a violin lesson on TV.

What is important in a performance

I don't want to play well, I want to be used by God.

One of my favorite songs

R. Strauss: Symphonic poem "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"

This dense, magical, and mysterious work, approximately 15 minutes long, is a colorful depiction of the story of the legendary eccentric "Till," who actually lived in 14th century Germany, was published in the 16th century, and has continued to be read for approximately 500 years to the present day. It is overflowing with orchestration ideas and is magically and mysteriously a work of approximately 15 minutes long.
The piece begins with the opening strings, "Once upon a time...", as if reading a book aloud, followed by the main character, "Till", who is introduced in full by a solo horn. As each episode progresses, we are given a rare opportunity to immerse ourselves in a medieval worldview (!?) while searching for the motif of Till, who keeps getting up to mischief throughout the piece and continues to change until his death.

Yumiko Nakagawa

Viola

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