Nobuko Imai
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Nobuko Imai (今井 信子 Imai Nobuko?, born March 18, 1943 in Tokyo), is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician.
[edit] Biography
Imai began her training at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and soon after came to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won first prize at both the Geneva and ARD Munich Competitions.
She has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Orchestras, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony. She is a former member of the Vermeer Quartet and is now a member of the Michaelangelo Quartet.
Her discography includes more than 30 releases on labels such as Chandos, EMI, Hyperion, and Philips. She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Avon Arts Award (1993) and Japan's Suntory Hall Prize (1996).
She currently teaches at the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve in Switzerland.
[edit] External links
- Nobuko Imai at Goldberg
- (Japanese) Nobuko Imai at Universal Classics
