Thursday 26 September 2.00 pm
Yukiko Ishibashi (violin)
Yuki Negishi (piano)
Schubert: Violin sonatina in D Op 137 no1 (11')
Allegro / Andante / Allegro
Brahms: Violin Sonata in A major Op 100 (20')
Allegro / Andante / Allegretto
Koichi Kishi: Umi no Uta
Taketori Monogatari
Nanbanbune (15')
Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin (3')
Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances (7')
Violinist Yukiko Ishibashi won top prizes at the Lipitzer, Fritz Kreisler and Sendai International Violin Competitions, and concerts in Aspen, Vienna, Lubeck and St. Petersburg followed, after finishing her studies at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in her native Japan. With Prof. Zakhar Bron in Lubeck, and further in Prof. Gyorgy Pauk's violin class in Switzerland, Yukiko Ishibashi matured into a widely known soloist and chamber musician. In 2002, she graduated from the Zurich University of Arts with a Soloist's Degree. Yukiko has received scholarships from the Aoyama and the Rohm Foundations in Japan, and was supported by the Japanese Ministry of Culture.
At the age of 25, Yukiko became a member of the First Violin Section with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, and settled indefinitely in Switzerland. Yukiko also passionately pursues her path in chamber music. Trio Oreade, which in 2012 welcomed cellist Christine Hu alongside violist Ursula Sarnthein, won the International Competition for String Trios in Munich, and gained international attention. In 2017, the three musicians were loaned instruments by Antonius Stradivari by the Habisreutinger Stradivari Foundation. Trio Oreade is regularly invited to chamber music festivals in Europe, England and Japan, such as Meggenhorn, Melk, Hozhausen, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Zurich Tonhalle. The trio has worked with Heinrich Schiff, Thomas Grossenbacher and Giovanni Antonini, and intensively with Professor Rainer Schmidt, violinist of the Hagen String Quartet.
Yukiko Ishibashi plays the "King George" Stradivari from 1710. By pure coincidence, this was the very first Stradivarius instrument owned by the talented Japanese violinist, conductor and composer Koichi Kishi, between 1927 to 1931. In partnership with pianist Yuki Negishi, Yukiko Ishibashi recorded the works by Kishi, a project supported by Swiss Radio "SRF2 Kultur" and by the Habisreutinger Stradivari Foundation.
Yuki Negishi has established herself as a pianist of rare poetry, passion and virtuosity, equally at home as an adjudicator, educator and researcher, captivating audiences wherever she performs around the world. Yuki has already performed in over 600 concerts in the UK alone, including many of the most important halls and festivals, and regularly performs about 30 concerts a year as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician (violinists Elly Suh and Yukiko Ishibashi, Trio Oreade, London Mozart Players, London Myriad Ensemble, members of the Philharmonia, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra etc) in countries such as the Netherlands (Concertgebouw), France, Germany, Switzerland (Tonhalle), Italy (Festival di Londra, Blanc European Festival, Artepiano International Festival), Romania, Bangladesh, Japan, China and the USA. She has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio, Xray FM, ITV, Channel 4, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and French television and radio. Her CD ‘Enigma” released through the Quartz label (www.quartzmusic.com) in May 2022 received rave reviews from Gramophone, International Piano Magazine and Record Geijutsu Japan, and her second album “Preludes”, released in May 2024 also garnered praise. Future engagements include recitals and masterclasses in Italy, Japan for the Edinburgh Royal Mile International Series, Absolute Classics, the new Bechstein Hall with violinist Elly Suh etc.
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