baroque, renaissance and medieval music
solo & basso continuo
asako
Art (née Fujimura), began to play harp after long years
of
piano. After
the university, she took historical harp lessons from William Taylor in
Scotland and began her studies in medieval and renaissance music at
Schola Cantorum in Basel, which she finished with a diploma in Baroque
harp in 2004. Currently she has been in the class of Mara Galassi in
Milan. Masako took part in opera productions with Jean-Claude Malgoire
in Staatsoper Stuttgart, Theatre Lyrique de Tourcoing and Theatre
Champs Elysee and with René Jacobs in Innsbrucker Festwochen,
Theater
an der Wien and Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, as well as in
diverse baroque orchestras and chamber ensembles. She participated in
recordings including those with New London Consort (Frottole), Luca
Scandali and
Stefano Molardi (Giovanni Maria Trabaci), L'Arpa Festante (Händel,
Neun
Deutsche Arien) and with Il Vero Modo
(Arcadia, Love
Letters) and in CD/DVD "L'Orfeo"
with Le Grand Ecurie et
la Chambre du Roy, as well as radio/TV recordings by DRS, ORF, 3SAT,
arte and FranceMusique.
Her repertoire includes
essential harp-obligato literature such
as Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo', Händel's 'Julius Caesar', 'Saul' and
'Esther', and Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice' as well as the works of many
Italian (Monteverdi,
Frescobaldi, Mayone, Trabaci, Stradella, d'India, Carissimi, Caccini,
etc), German (Froberger, Schütz, Schein, Telemann etc), and
English
(Purcell, Dowland, Lawes, John Parry, Händel etc) composers in
solo/chamber music
settings.
She is also an experienced player of 14th-early 16th century music, from Trecento to Frottola, Machaut to Agricola, and its contemporary solo keyboard settings.
She is also an experienced player of 14th-early 16th century music, from Trecento to Frottola, Machaut to Agricola, and its contemporary solo keyboard settings.
Sound samples
Sigismondo D'India
from 'Love Letters'
with Il Vero Modo
Claudio Monteverdi
from 'Love Letters'
with Il Vero Modo
Johann Jakob Froberger
Solo
(demo-recording)
Johann Jakob Froberger
Solo
(demo-recording)
Agostino Guerrieri
with Parnassi Musici
Agostino Guerrieri
with Parnassi Musici
G. F. Händel
with L'Arpa Festante
(Links to Carus-Verlag: Track 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 are performed with harp)
Buxheim Organ Book
Solo - renaissance harp
(first edit for Chant 1450's coming CD "mon âme
est défaite")
My Harp Fleet: Click picture to enlarge
Contact:
Masako
Art Tel: +41-78-870-2286 Email:
harpion at bluewin.ch
