Programme
Content:
The focus of the course is on the music of "Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries".
Target group:
Already trained violinists, students and further advanced students who would like to deal intensively with historical performance practice.
Instruments:
The course takes place on historically set up instruments (baroque violin with at least 3 plain gut strings and baroque bow) at 415 Hz.
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As part of the course, there is the opportunity to deepen instrumental topics together with a historical violin maker.
Bio
Mayumi Hirasaki studied violin, baroque violin, harpsichord and church music. Her teachers included Daniel Gaede, Mary Utiger, Christine Schornsheim and Giuliano Carmignola. She has been a professor of baroque violin and viola at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2017. Mayumi is a prizewinner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig and the Early Music Competition in Bruges.
She is concertmaster of Concerto Köln, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Gaechinger Cantorey, as well as a regular guest with various baroque orchestras and ensembles in Europe, the USA and Japan. Her CD recordings include violin concertos and sonatas by J.S. Bach with Giuliano Carmignola & Concerto Köln, Lorenzo Ghielmi & La Divina Armonia and Christine Schornsheim, as well as the solo CDs "L'Arte della Scordatura" and the "Rosenkranzsonaten" by H.I.F. Biber.
Her latest recording with Concerto Köln are violin concertos and orchestral works by J.G. Pisendel, for which she was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK in 2023. The current recording of C.P.E. Bach's "Symponies from Berlin to Hamburg" with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin was awarded the Diapason D'Or in April 2024. She plays a violin by Domenico Montagnana provided by a German foundation.