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She is a clarinettist and teacher born in Japan.
She studied at the Musashino Academie
Musicae, where she was studying when she won the
Japanese Clarinet Society Recital Series in 1986 which gave her the chance
to make her Tokyo debut. She later studied for her Masters and
doctorate degrees in music at Webster
University in the United
States and the Peabody Conservatory of
Music awarded her an orchestral fellowship.
Her career as a professional musician has seen her
performing on a national and international basis at various music festivals
such as AIMS music festival, Aspen
and Sarasota. She is a co-founder of Eastwinds Quintet and Tripod Trio and has been a member
of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra,
the Orchestra of the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Philadelphia Virtuosi
Chamber Orchestra.
She has also been heard on several radio broadcasts in
New York and Baltimore
and appeared on recordings that include Beethoven:
Symphony No. 9 by the Ama Deus Ensemble, Music by Bach, Bartok,
Stravinsky, Falla & Rachmaninoff with the
Tripod Trio and Societies of Composers
Inc.: Transcendencies.
Entering the field of musical education in 2002 she took
on the position of Professor of Clarinet at Rowan
University. She has also been on the faculty of Philadelphia’s
Temple Music Prep.
Sources:
- http://www.rowan.edu/open/depts/fpa/music/our_assets/bio/suzuki.htm
- http://www.tripodtrio.com/rie_bio.htm
- http://www.myspace.com/templemusicprep
- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:488748~T3
- http://www.answers.com/topic/ciaccona-from-partita
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_8130/is_20040326/ai_n52711260/
- http://www.blackpearlco.org/musicians.asp
- http://www.exploredance.com/performanceprograms/PlaybillPAballet11-14-07.pdf
- http://www.lyrichord.com/linernotes/LYRCD6010US.pdf
- http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/filest7VN.pdf
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