【Violin Master Class】
主講人:Ayako
Yonetani
(Professor of violin and viola at the University of
Central Florida)
日期:2018年11月26日(一)
時間:13:30~15:10
地點:北藝大音樂二館演奏廳
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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
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 Japan’s 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
Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Vienna’s Musikverrein, Tokyo’s Kioi Hall, Slovak Republic’s Dome Umenia, Dresden’s 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 Month” by WMFE-90.7FM in October 2004. Japan’s premier music publisher, Ongaku no Tomo, published
her Japanese translation of Barbara L. Sand’s 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 Japan’s 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.
