Keiko Yamaguchi & Rosario Conte
Biography Keiko Yamaguchi & Rosario Conte
Keiko Yamaguchi
Keiko Yamaguchi was born in tokyo. She first studied with takashi Shimizu at the tokyo national University of Fine art and Music and later went to Basel to study with adelina Oprean and gérard Wyss. at the Luzern Conservatory she continued her education with giuliano Carmognola and received her diploma with the highest distinction. at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she dedicated herself to the baroque violin which she studied with Chiara Banchini. During her studies in Japan, she received important musical impulses from the amadeus Quartet as well as from Yasuro Sumi.
Keiko Yamaguchi gives solo concerts and concerts of chamber music throughout europe and Japan, and she plays with many different orchestras such as the Kam- merorchester Basel, the Zürcher Kammerorchester, the Festival Strings Luzern, the Opernhaus Zürich, the ensemble 415, the ensemble Classique and the alpha ensemble. She has participated in numerous festivals in europe, north and South america, Russia, azerbaijan, turkey, China and Japan.
Keiko Yamaguchi is member of the ensemble amaltea and of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester.
She particularly likes chamber music played both on historical and classical instru- ments and interprets literature running from baroque music to contemporary music.
Keiko Yamaguchi plays a violin made by nicolas Lupot, Paris, 1822.
Rosario Conte
Rosario Conte was born in 1966 in taranto, italy. He started his musical educa- tion by studying the violin and guitar and then turned towards period plucked instruments and historically informed performance.
He studied baroque guitar, lute, theorbo and basso continuo at the n. Piccinni Conservatoire in Bari and received his diplomas in guitar and lute with the high- est distinction.
From 2002 to 2004, he studied with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. aside from his intensive concert, solo and continuo playing careers, he also participates in a number of different ensembles and orchestras specialised in the playing of period instruments, such as the Kammerorchester Basel, the accademia Bizantina, the Balthasar-neumann ensemble, the Freiburger Barock- orchester, giardino armonico and i Barocchisti. He also performs regularly at different early Music Festivals.
Rosario Conte plays regularly with the mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and has recorded for various major record labels, such as Deutsche grammophon and Sony, as well as for numerous radio stations.
He was professor for lute, theorbo, baroque guitar and Basso Continuo at the conservatory „n. Piccinni“ in Bari as well as in „a. Boito“ in Parma and is cur- rently teching at the conservatory „L. Refice“ in Frosinone.
