He is a violinist and teacher born in Nara, Japan, who studied for his Masters Degree at the Juilliard School of Music and remained in America for 15 years, partly as his teacher, Joseph Fuchs’, assistant.
In the late 1980s he became a member of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and in 1993 he founded La Strada, which is a now recognised string ensemble, which has appeared at several venues in Japan over the last decade and a half.
In 1995 he returned to Japan after the earthquake at Hanshin and the following year he was a performer at several concerts in the Kobe area to raise money for the victims.
He has now become a national and international violinist who has appeared in concerts of chamber music, on radio and television broadcasts and as a solo recitalist in North and South America as well as his native Japan. Orchestras he has appeared with include the Orquesta del Valle based in Columbia, Osaka Century Orchestra and the Osaka Philharmonic.
He now lives in Kobe, Japan and is still a regular performer.
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra recordings
Bring Me Back My Lovin’ Honey Boy ( George Linus Cobb/ Jack Yellen)
Newport Classic NC 60069 (CD: The Whistler and His Dog)
Conductor – Rick Benjamin
Here’s the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra performing “The Whistler and His Dog”…
Sources:
- https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=https://tamakikanaseki.jimdo.com/&prev=search
- http://www.kobeclub.org/modules/extcal/event.php?event=178
- http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?tt=url&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.valledelcauca.gov.co%2Fpublicaciones.php%3Fid%3D1833&lp=es_en&.intl=us&fr=slv8-msgr
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E2DF1E39F930A25754C0A960958260
- http://www.allenorgan.com/www/news/allenews/international/osaka_japan_dawn_center/news1.html
- http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww5e.biglobe.ne.jp%2F%7Eyuko_vn%2FTKprofile.html&lp=ja_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
- CD Liner notes: The Whistler & His Dog (Newport Classics NCD 60069)