Bach's Sinfonia No.6 with Improvisation by Genzoh Takehisa's Silbermann piano (Live at Studio of Genzoh Takehisa, 2023)

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• Genzoh Takehisa

  Born in 1957, He lost his eyes at the age of 1year old.Genzoh Takehisa became the first blind person to graduate from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984. During a tour of Germany by Musica Poetica, a Japanese group led by Yumiko Tanno, director of the Tokyo Heinrich Schutz Choir, music critics praised Takehisa's interpretation of Buxthehude's compositions for the organ, along with his own oratorio, "Creation." Takehisa learned to play the harpsichord in Matsuyama, Japan's Ehime Prefecture, when he was twelve years old. He holds a degree in musicology from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he majored in Rhetorical Theory of 16th and 17th European Music. Since 1984, Takehisa has toured regularly throughout Japan as a professional, performing works from the Middle Ages to contemporary compositions. In 1986, he began arranging works and producing his own original compositions. Takehisa has released almost thirty CDs of mainly Renaissance and Baroque works on the ALM and Aeolian labels, demonstrating his virtuosity on a wide range of keyboard instruments, including the harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano. Several issues of the leading monthly music magazine "Record Geijutsu Art" have featured Takehisa's CDs as CD of the Month, including "The Goldberg Variations" and The Realms of Keyboard Music Series (Volumes 1-6), "Sechs Partiten BWV825-830," "Das wohltemperierte Klavier," and "Englische Suiten BWV806-811." In 2002, Takehisa published his landmark essay "New People Make New Music." Since 1998, he has been a lecturer at Ferris University College of Music and also directs his own ensemble, Conversum Musicum, which has released four CDs. Takehisa is a dynamic performer and accomplished composer with an insatiable appetite for new musical experiences. He has been improving a Silbermann piano, which he restored himself repeatedly for over 15 years, and he creates and plays the most beautiful tone that Bach pursued.

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