 The Jacobs School of Music-affiliated Artists of the Month, announced in WFIU’s “Directions in Sound” program guide, are now featured in “Fanfare” with a convenient link so you may listen online. This month, Professor of Music Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi is spotlighted.
by Adam P. Schweigert
Before joining the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Tsutsumi served on the faculty of the University of Western Ontario and the University of Illinois. He is also a first prize-winner of the Casals International Competition; the Grand Prize-winner of the Arts Festival, Japan; winner of the Mobile Music Prize, Japan; and an Academy of the Arts Award-winner. A highly respected teacher and adjudicator, he currently serves as president of the Japanese Cello Society and Suntory Music Foundation, and is the music director for the Kirishima International Music Festival.
Several live recordings made at the IU Jacobs School of Music will be featured:
- Monday, May 1, at 7:07 p.m.: Tsutsumi joins pianist Ronald Turini in a 1991 recording of the Cello Sonata of Claude Debussy.
- Saturday, May 13, at 12:09 p.m.: He joins bassist Bruce Bransby for the Duetto for Cello and Double Bass by Gioacchino Rossini.
- Tuesday, May 23, at 11:13 p.m.: Faculty colleagues Emile Naoumoff, piano; Federico Agostini, violin; and Yuval Gotlibovich, viola, join Tsutsumi for the Second Piano Quartet in G, Op. 45 of Gabriel Faure.
- Wednesday, May 31, at 10:12 p.m.: He wraps up the month with a solo performance of Zoltan Kodaly's Sonata for Violoncello, Op. 8.
All performances can be heard through wfiu.indiana.edu.
Click here for Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi's biography |
