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New Year, New Repertoire
January 17th Ditta Rohmann performed Rautavaara's lyrical second cello concerto, 'Towards the Horizon', the work with which he closed his career as a concerto composer, as he had opened it with the first cello concerto, with the Alba Regia orchestra of Székesfehérvár, Hungary. Her performance moved the audience powerfully - as the town's website put it in picturesque English "it was no accident that he received the applause that didn't want to go away". Even a member of the orchestra announced that he had never heard playing like it, the way every note meant something. 'Memories', Kyoko Hashimoto's May 21st concert in the festival Accès Asie - online only in 2021 - is still available on youtube. Comments left in the live chat included "Beautiful as always. Bravo Kyoko sensei." and "Magnifique. Quelle technique impeccable, beaucoup de sensibilité et très beau répertoire."
Click on the image to go to the concert. Freely accessible concerts from Ditta Rohmann's new series of the Beethoven works for cello and piano - or in this case fortepiano - are now available.
Click on the image for details and links at the Ditta Rohmann Listen page. New CD release -
Just out on Nami Records Brahms - the 3 violin sonatas by Takashi Kawaguchi and Kyoko Hashimoto for more details and other exciting recording news see the Kyoko Hashimoto News page The Beethoven Op 5 cello sonatas from Ditta Rohmann with Mihály Berecz fortepiano, Sunday morning Nov 8 at 10.00 UTC. We will add the link when the recording of the concert becomes available. In a new monthly concert series curated by Ditta - with audiences once it's possible, online only for now. The 20th December 2020 concert by Rafael Rosenfeld and Kyoko Hashimoto of the complete Beethoven cello sonatas at the Théâtre Garonne Toulouse has had to be postponed. Faced with a new French lockdown and a number of artists obliged to self-isolate the theatre had no alternative but to cancel all scheduled performances in November and December. We will announce the new date as soon as it has been finalised. In Montreal Kyoko Hashimoto organised a five concert series to celebrate the 'Beethoven year', featuring performances of all the violin sonatas and beginning with the Archduke Trio by the Trio de Montréal. The concerts took place in Pollack Hall, without an audience but with expert technical teams on hand to stream them. The video recordings of her own appearances in the 3 op 12 sonatas with Violaine Melançon and the 3 op 30 sonatas with Laura Andriani can be accessed from the Chamber Concerts page. (click on the image)
Ditta Rohmann felt obliged to cancel her upcoming concerts in the UK because of the Coronavirus. Adrian Brendel very generously stepped in to replace her, but finally the spread of the virus and the government's response decided otherwise. We all look forward to when they can be reprogrammed. 15th January Jed Distler begins including a series of recordings by Kyoko Hashimoto in his New York radio show Between the Keys, with 2 Debussy Preludes from her live concert recording of 2009 |
Ditta Rohmann gives Hungarian Salonen premiere
17th December, Ditta Rohmann gave the first performance in Hungary of 'Mania' for cello and ensemble by Esa-Pekka Salonen. This was the last work in a concert containing 2 other Hungarian premieres with the UMZE Ensemble conducted by Huba Hollóköi at the Budapest Music Center.
See https://www.facebook.com/DittaCello/videos/303625060359825/ for a sample
Ditta Rohmann gives Hungarian Salonen premiere
17th December, Ditta Rohmann gave the first performance in Hungary of 'Mania' for cello and ensemble by Esa-Pekka Salonen. This was the last work in a concert containing 2 other Hungarian premieres with the UMZE Ensemble conducted by Huba Hollóköi at the Budapest Music Center.
See https://www.facebook.com/DittaCello/videos/303625060359825/ for a sample
20th - 25th November
Works by Saiso Shimada will form part of the 33rd Hakusuikai Calligraphy exhibition
at Ginzu Kanematsu Hall 5F, Ginza 6-9-9, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Opening hours 11:00 - 19:00.
20th - 25th November
Works by Saiso Shimada will form part of the 33rd Hakusuikai Calligraphy exhibition
at Ginzu Kanematsu Hall 5F, Ginza 6-9-9, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Opening hours 11:00 - 19:00.
8th November
Press conference with Hungaroton in Budapest about Ditta Rohmann's latest CDs
and to launch the third of them, her new solo disc of the Kodaly and Ligeti sonatas
alongside shorter works by Dukay, Eötvös and Kurtag.
a first recording re-issued
Anthony Marwood and Kyoko Hashimoto's recording of Rudi Martinus van Dijk's 4 movement violin sonata has been re-issued in a 2 CD-set devoted to the composer's work. The two artists gave the first performance of the sonata in a concert at St. George's, Bristol in March 1995.
28th August
Congratulations also to Ditta Rohmann on her new post as 'Adjunct Lecturer' at the Franz Liszt Academy (Liszt Ference Zenemuvészeti Egyetem) of Budapest, one of the most prestigious music conservatoires in the world.
Congratulations to Kyoko Hashimoto, whose new Mozart CD is Critic's Choice in the August issue of
'Record Geijutsu', Japan's most authoritative record review magazine. One of the reviewers likens her playing to the great masters of the past.
Congratulations to Kyoko Hashimoto, whose new Mozart CD is Critic's Choice in the August issue of
'Record Geijutsu', Japan's most authoritative record review magazine. One of the reviewers likens her playing to the great masters of the past.
An article based on an interview with Kyoko Hashimoto about her new CD (in Japanese)
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25th May
Kyoko Hashimoto's new CD
Notes from the Shadows - solo piano music by Mozart linked by the use of minor tonalities
released in Japan: Nami Records WWCC - 7874
24th May
Ditta Rohmann performed the Dubrovay Cello Concerto
with the Hungarian National Philharmonic, conductor György Vashegyi
at the beautiful Vigadó concert hall in Budapest.
Live relay on MR-3 Bartók Rádió.
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pages on the cellist Ditta Rohmann are published on the IAR site
1.v.2018
pages on the cellist Ditta Rohmann are published on the IAR site
Details of IMWAF 2018 have been announced:
joining Kyoko Hashimoto at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Germany from 6th to 19th August will be
Helge Slaatto - violin professor at the Hochschule Münster, who studied with Sandor Végh, and
Martti Rousi - cello professor at the Sibelius Academy, a former student of Janos Starker at Bloomington,
prizewinner at the Tchaikovsky competition, Moscow and artistic director of the Turku music festival.
Watch a short video of a recording session for Ditta Rohmann and Laszlo Fassang's new CD
Kyoko Hashimoto is back in Montreal
after her second European trip, which ended with marvellous masterclasses at the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School and the CYM in London.
Ditta Rohmann's new CD is out
'J.S.Bach Sonatas and Partitas' by Ditta Rohmann and her husband Laszlo Fassang has been released by Hungaroton.
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Ditta Rohmann joins the IAR stable IAR has agreed to provide representation in part of Europe for the great Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann. Ditta is without question one of the finest cellists of her generation and it is a privilege to be working with her. More information about Ditta on the website soon. |
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Kyoko Hashimoto in Europe Kyoko is making two trips to Europe either side of Christmas: the first to Trossingen in Germany for masterclasses and a concert, then a recital at Evian and masterclasses in < Geneva before returning to Canada. In January she heads to Helsinki, for a week's residence at the Sibelius Academy: more masterclasses and a chamber concert there > before three more masterclasses in London on the way home. 
Finishing the Asian tour with a bang and an equally metaphorical baton - In the final concert of Kyoko Hashimoto's Asian tour this summer, in Tokyo on June 30th, she directed the Ensemble Nizi in Spring and Summer from Vivaldi's The Seasons as well as both directing and playing the solo keyboard parts in the Mendelssohn double concerto for piano and violin and the fifth of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Kyoko has always been resolutely opposed to any kind of specialisation - no danger of that, clearly. This reaction from Akiko Tani, IAR's Japanese counterpart: Saiso Shimada exhibition A new exhibition of calligraphies by Saiso Shimada was held in Paris 19 - 27 June. An event presenting Saiso's work was also held at the Japanese Embassy in Brussels on June 23. |
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At the beginning of May we were at Musicora in Paris, meeting people from music festivals and France Musique - some potentially interesting contacts made. Mid-May we were in Toulouse to meet up with Kyoko Hashimoto, before her fabulously received performance of a new programme in the Théâtre Garonne's Musique 360° series on 17th, with a violin & piano recital from Mi-Sa Yang and Adam Laloum afterwards,. Three days later Kyoko repeated the programme in Hamburg, with a masterclass the previous day. Then off to Taiwan to give more masterclasses at the start of her annual Asian tour.
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before recording him in Japan
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One of the highlights of which was the recording of the new, all-Mozart CD on June 22. This happened in the beautiful area of Sagamiko Lake.
photo: Kyoko Hashimoto > |
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Once again in 2017, as last summer, Kyoko Hashimoto will be at Carsoli in Italy for the 'Piana del Cavaliere' piano competition, for which she is President of the Jury - 12th to 15th July for the senior age category. Then it will be off to the airport to fly to the States where she is due to start her duo sonata course in the famous Castleman Quartet Program the following day. This will be the 15th consecutive year that Kyoko has been invited to give masterclasses in this celebrated summer academy - the best of its kind in the world according to Yo-Yo Ma. |
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From 7th to 20th August Kyoko Hashimoto will be back in Europe, at Kirchberg in Germany for the 14th edition of her own summer school: the International Music Workshop and Festival. A new face this year will be Mark Gothhoni the strings maestro. Composer as well as international solo violinist, string orchestra leader and chamber musician, he also studied with Sandor Végh in Salzburg - so solidly of the IMWAF school.
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September 2015 saw the opening of Saiso Shimada's 10th solo exhibition at the Kyukyado Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo and the publication of the book 'Calligraphy of the Universe - The World of SHIMADA Saiso'
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Coming on the IAR website:
pages on the Cornish painter Joan Edwards
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"a disc overflowing with vitality"
"holds one spellbound" "exceptional" "quite marvellous" — click on the image to read the fantastic reviews of Kyoko Hashimoto's most recent CD |
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We shall take whatever measures are necessary to be able to continue to serve our artists in both Europe and the UK
despite Britain's decision to leave the EU.