Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi has appeared as soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC.
46 Facts About Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi won first prize at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1963 at Budapest.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was awarded the Artist Diploma in Instrumental Performance at Indiana University in 1965.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was Visiting Professor and Resident Artist at Western University from 1967 to 1984 and Professor of Cello at Indiana University from 1988 to 2006.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was President of Toho Gakuen School of Music from 2004 to 2014.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi's father was a versatile player of the violin, viola and cello and played double bass in the Tokyo Radio Philharmonic.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi's father taught all three instruments in local schools.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi began the violin at the age of six, but changed to cello when he saw a half-size cello being demonstrated to his father by a dealer.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi started to study music under the tutorship of Hideo Saito, founder of the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Chofu, Tokyo from where he would graduate.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi made his debut as cellist when he was 12 years old performing the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 with the Tokyo Philharmonic and at 18 he gave his first concert tour as soloist with the NHK Symphony Orchestra throughout India, Russia and Europe.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Indiana University with Janos Starker commencing in 1961.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was awarded the Artist Diploma in Instrumental Performance at Indiana University in 1965.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was appointed as Assistant to Starker at Indiana University beginning in 1963.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi won first prize at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in 1963 at Budapest.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi won first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich for cello that same year.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi participated in festivals such as the Algoma Fall, Banff, Guelph Spring, Ontario Place, and Stratford in Canada, and the Ravinia in the United States.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Gergiev, Zdenek Kosler, Eiji Oue, Jose-Luis Garcia.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi collaborated with such musicians as Gervase de Peyer, Ronald Turini, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Nobuko Imai, Steven Staryk, Adele Marcus, James Campbell, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and many others.
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In September 1967, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra in London, Ontario, Canada conducted by music director Martin Boundy.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi became a member of the Faculty of Music at University of Western Ontario in London as Visiting Professor and Resident Artist that same year.
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On 24 October 1974, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi appeared with a Japanese combined orchestra which included the Toho Gakuen School of Music Orchestra and members of the Japan Philharmonic with conductor Seiji Ozawa and violist Nobuko Imai in a world-wide telecast from the United Nations building in New York City.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi gave the world premiere performances and championed several important works by Japanese composers.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi gave the world premiere of the Takemitsu work in 1984 in Paris with the Japan Philharmonic conducted by Tadaaki Otaka.
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On 25,26,28 March 1980, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed the Memorial to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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On 17 June 1981, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed the Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Heinz Wallberg.
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In October 1985, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was soloist with the NHK Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City performing the Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto.
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The New York Times review stated that Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi played "with energy and care".
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In 1988 Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata for cello and piano with pianist Hiroko Nakamura in Tokyo.
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In 2001, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with Eiji Oue conducting.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed at the 2020 Kirishimi International Music Festival in an online concert.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 2013 and later with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi toured Japan in November 2020 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was with Western University in London, Ontario, Canada from 1967 to 1984 as Visiting Professor and Resident Artist.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi taught at University of Illinois from 1984 to 1988.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was President of the Toho Gakuen School of Music, his alma mater, and reportedly the largest music conservatory in the world, from 2004 to 2014.
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Janos Starker had asked Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi to assist in the development of South Korean cellists, and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi has been Visiting Professor of Cello at Korea National University of Arts since 2017.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was a jurist at several editions of the Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition in Moscow, including 2019.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was Chairman of the 2022 Emmanuel Feuermann Cello Competition.
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In 1997, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi recorded the solo cello of the Tchaikovsky Swan Lake suite with the Saito Kinen Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa for Philips recordings.
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In 2012, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi recorded the Vocalise No 2 for solo cello by Canadian composer Murray Adaskin, who had created the work in 1996 at the age of 90 years.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi is President of Suntory Hall, Japan's first dedicated concert hall in Tokyo.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi is President of the Japanese Federation of Musicians.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi is known throughout the world of cello students because he is the cellist on most of the famous Suzuki CDs which accompany the Suzuki cello practice books.
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In November 2009, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.
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In 1978 he married the Japanese playwright and scholar Harue Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi after meeting her at University of Toronto.
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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi received her doctorate in East Asian languages at Indiana University.