Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi 堤剛 | |
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Born | Sony Classical | July 28, 1942
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (堤剛, Tsutsumi Tsuyoshi) (born July 28, 1942 in
Tsutsumi won first prize at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1963 at Budapest.
Tsutsumi was awarded the Artist Diploma in Instrumental Performance at Indiana University in 1965. He was Assistant Professor and Resident Artist at Western University from 1967 to 1984 and Professor of Cello at Indiana University from 1988 to 2006. He was President of Toho Gakuen School of Music from 2004 to 2014.
Education
Tsutsumi’s father was a versatile player of the violin, viola and cello and also played the double bass in the Tokyo Radio Philharmonic.
Tsutsumi made his debut as cellist when he was 12 years old performing the Saint-Saens
He was granted a
Competitions
Tsutsumi won first prize at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1963 at Budapest.[6][7][8][9]
He also won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich for cello that same year.[10]
Performance history
Tsutsumi has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the
He performed with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa (with whom he recorded the cello solo in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake suite), Giuseppe Sinopoli, Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Gergiev, Zdeněk Košler (with whom he recorded the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for CBS/Sony Records), Eiji Oue, José-Luis Garcia[12] (with whom he recorded the Haydn Cello Concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra for Sony Records).
Tsutsumi collaborated with such musicians as Gervase de Peyer, Ronald Turini (with whom he recorded the complete Beethoven works for cello and piano for CBS/Sony Records), Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Nobuko Imai, Steven Staryk, Adele Marcus, James Campbell, Wolfgang Sawallisch (with whom he recorded the two Brahms sonatas for cello and piano for CBS/Sony Records), and many others.
On 24 October 1974, Tsutsumi appeared with a Japanese combined orchestra which included the
Tsutsumi gave the world premiere performances and championed several important works by Japanese composers. These include the
On 25, 26, 28 March 1980, Tsutsumi performed the Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for cello and orchestra by Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Victor Feldbrill.[18]
In 1982, Tsutsumi and Ronald Turini, his colleague at University of Western Ontario, performed in Ottawa, capital city of Canada, at the invitation of the Japanese Ambassador to Canada a recital program which included cello/piano sonatas of Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff.[19]
In 1985, Tsutsumi and Turini performed the world premiere of the Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano of Canadian composer André Prévost.[20][21]
In 1985, he toured Japan with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa.
In October 1985, Tsutsumi was soloist with the
In 1988 Tsutsumi performed the
In 2001, Tsutsumi performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with Eiji Oue conducting.[25]
In 2003, Tsutsumi and Turini performed a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation national broadcast recital of cello/piano sonatas of Borodin and Shostakovich.[26]
Tsutsumi performed the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2013 and later with the
In 2023, Tsutsumi performed his 80th Anniversary concert tour.[29]
University positions and adjudications
Tsutsumi was with Western University in London, Ontario from 1967 to 1984 as Assistant Professor and Resident Artist.[30] His Faculty of Music colleagues at Western included such prominent performing artists as pianist Ronald Turini (with whom he would perform for about thirty years), violinist Steven Staryk, violist Gerald Stanik,[31] pianist Dr. Damjana Bratuz (a former fellow graduate student of Tsutsumi and a frequent performance colleague both at Indiana University and at Western University),[a][33] pianist Arthur Rowe,[34] and pianist Bruce Vogt.[35] Music historian Philip G. Downs[36][37] was also a member of the Faculty of Music at Western from 1969 to 2014.
Tsutsumi's students at Western University included Christine Newland, later principal cello of
Tsutsumi taught at University of Illinois from 1984 to 1988.
From 1988 to 2006 he was Professor of Cello at Indiana University where his colleagues included his former professor János Starker.
Tsutsumi was President of the Toho Gakuen School of Music, his alma mater, and reportedly the largest music conservatory in the world, from 2004 to 2014.[39]
Janos Starker had asked Tsutsumi to assist in the development of South Korean cellists, and Tsutsumi has been Visiting Professor of Cello at Korea National University of Arts since 2017.[40][41] One of his Korean students, Hayoung Lee, won 1st place at the 2019 David Popper International Cello Competition.[42][43] In July 2024, a memorial festival for the 100th birthday of Janos Starker is planned for both Tokyo and Seoul organized by Tsutsumi and Professor Yang of Korea, another former student of Starker.[44]
Tsutsumi was a jurist at several editions of the Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition in Moscow, including 2019.[45]
He was Chairman of the 2022
Recordings
He has recorded the Bach solo cello suites on three different occasions for CBS/Sony Records.
In 1968 Tsutsumi recorded the Kodály Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello for CBS/Sony Records,[47] a work which he presented on several occasions in acclaimed live performances.
While at the Western University Faculty of Music in the 1970s, he founded Quartet Canada[48] together with his Western colleagues violinist Steven Staryk, pianist Ronald Turini and violist Gerald Stanick[49] with whom he recorded and performed many of the standard repertoire compositions for piano quartet.[50][51]
Tsutsumi and Turini recorded the complete Beethoven works for cello and piano which were distributed world wide by CBS/Sony Records in 1980.[52][53][54][55][56][57] The esteemed music critic Tully Potter described the recording of Op. 69 in this set as follows in a 2019 review, "My all-time choice so far is Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Ronald Turini in their outstanding Sony set...".[58]
Tsutsumi recorded the Dvořák
In 1987, Tsutsumi recorded the Haydn Cello Concertos in C and D with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by José-Luis Garcia for CBS/Sony Records.[61][62]
Tsutsumi recorded the two Brahms sonatas for cello and piano with Wolfgang Sawallisch for CBS/Sony Records in 1988.[63]
In 1992, he recorded the Bach Viola da Gamba sonatas with pianist
In 1997, Tsutsumi recorded the solo cello of the Tchaikovsky Swan Lake suite with the Saito Kinen Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa for Philips recordings.[67]
In 2012, Tsutsumi recorded the Vocalise No. 2 for solo cello by Canadian composer Murray Adaskin, who had created the work in 1996 at the age of 90 years.[68]
Awards and distinctions
Tsutsumi is President of Suntory Hall, Japan's first dedicated concert hall in Tokyo.[69] He is also President of the Japanese Federation of Musicians.[70]
He is known throughout the world of cello students because he is the cellist on most of the famous Suzuki CDs which accompany the Suzuki cello practice books. Tsutsumi's style and intonation in these recordings accompany thousands of students every day when they practice along with his recordings.
Among the many distinctions received, he was awarded the 1970 Suntory Music Award for his contribution to the world of music.
In November 2009, Tsutsumi was awarded with a
Personal
In 1978 he married the Japanese playwright and scholar Harue Tsutsumi after meeting her at University of Toronto. After 1978 they lived variously in London, Ontario, Canada (1978-1984), in Illinois (1984-1988), in Indiana (1988-2006), and currently in Tokyo (2006-).[72] She received her doctorate in East Asian languages at Indiana University.[73] They have two sons.
Notes
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