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2018年11月19日

【Violin Master Class】Ayako Yonetani

Violin Master Class

  主講人:Ayako Yonetani 
    (Professor of violin and viola at the University of Central Florida)






日期:20181126(一)

時間:13:30~15:10
地點:北藝大音樂二館演奏廳
北藝大絃樂組必到
歡迎有興趣者前往聆聽


Beethoven Violin Sonata No.3 in E-flat Major, Op.12, No.3, 1st movement


Violin:李宥鋅 You-Xin Li
Piano:王文娟 Wen-Chuan Wang


Saint-Saens:Violin Concerto No.3 Op.61 Mov I

Violin:陳柏文 Bowen Chen 
 Piano :黃奕瑜  Yi-Yu Huang



Ayako Yonetani, DMA violinist and violist, was born in Kobe, Japan, where, at the age of five, she began violin studies with the famous Saburo Sumi. Since winning the Japan National competition at age nine, She has quickly ascended to the top ranks of Japans violinists. She performed as a soloist with renowned Japanese orchestras, including NHK Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, and Gunma Symphony before she came to US.


Dr Yonetani received her Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Hyo Kang and the late Dorothy DeLay, world-renowned violin pedagogue, who taught such artists as Perlman, Midori, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham and Sarah Chang. Since 1989 she has assisted the late Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard pre-college division and at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

After Dr. Yonetani moved to the US in 1982, she has appeared frequently as a recitalist in major cities such as New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis and Orlando. These appearances included numerous solo recitals, solos with orchestras, chamber music and ensemble performances. These concerts took place in prestigious venues such as Amsterdams Concertgebouw, Salzburgs Mozarteum, Viennas Musikverrein, Tokyo’s Kioi Hall, Slovak Republic’s Dome Umenia, Dresdens Semperoper, and Astana City Hall in Kazakhstan.
In 2012-2013, Yonetani performed for the President of Panama and the Japanese Ambassador to Panama in the event to commemorate one-year of Japan’s earthquake/tsunami, and also for the Japanese emperor’s birthday event.

In addition to concert performances, her international reputation has been enhanced by recordings and engagements as a master-teacher and/or judge for musical competitions. In 2005, she was invited to judge the International Competition, “Shabyt,” in Kazakhstan and premiered a double violin concerto with the Astana City Symphony Orchestra in Kazakhstan. Yonetani released four solo CDs of Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn concerti, Bruch, Beethoven with original cadenza/Brahms concertos. She has participated in the production of six ensemble CDs as a member of Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo.  Her Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn concerto CD with the Kosice Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra was selected as The CD of the Monthby WMFE-90.7FM in October 2004. Japans premier music publisher, Ongaku no Tomo, published her Japanese translation of Barbara L. Sands book “Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician” in November, 2001. The book is currently in its fourth printing and over 4500 copies have been sold.

Dr. Yonetani has received the highest praise for her interpretations of Bach’s Chaconne, the unaccompanied Partita No. 2 in d minor. She performed Bach’s Chaconne at the inauguration of the President of Wofford College and she has been invited back each summer since 2000 to play this piece for the Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute, at which she was elected as an honorary Henry Crown Fellow in 2006.

Currently she is a full professor of violin and viola at the University of Central Florida and is also a member of Japans premier chamber ensemble, Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra (formerly Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo). She has been chosen as an official artist, the first violinist in its 30-year history for the Florida State Touring Program since 2006.  In 2018-2019 season, Yonetani will perform concertos with the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, UCF Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic of Kosice and the Uzggorod Philharmonic Orchestra  (Ukraine).  Mostly recently, Yonetani became the chair of UCF graduate quartet program.