Harpsichord concert: Yoshio Watanabe

Thursday 6 April, 7.00pm
Harpsichord concert
Grand Salon of Villa Medici

Price: €5
Free for SOLO, DUO or TRIBU cards holders.

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This event is organised in partnership with the Istituto Giapponese di Cultura.

Yoshio Watanabe is one of the leading figures of early music in Japan. On the occasion of his visit to Villa Medici for a week to record a disc, he will give a concert on the Academy’s historic harpsichord on 6 April in the Grand Salon.

The harpsichord of Villa Medici is a living instrument that was played in the last concert given by Scott Ross before his death, on 6 April 1989. Yoshio Watanabe will make the harpsichord sound again before its complete restoration, performing the repertoire of Johann Jacob Froberger and Louis Couperin.

Yoshio Watanabe performs in numerous concerts to promote harpsichord music. In 1984 he founded the Baroque Band, an orchestra of period instruments, with which he has conducted major works for voice and orchestra, including Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespro della Beata Vergine, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion.

© Yoshio Watanabe