Toby Hoffman Viola Recital

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• Toby Hoffman

  In a distinguished career spanning three decades, conductor and violist Toby Hoffman has appeared at many of the world's most prestigious international music festivals including the Salzburg, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Stavanger, Marlboro, La Jolla, Saratoga, and Hong Kong. He has been presented by Carnegie Hall, The Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, London South Bank, Suntory Hall, Lincoln Center, and La Scala. As a guest conductor and soloist, he has performed with many orchestras worldwide including the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Het Gelders Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic, I Cameristi del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Teatro di Genova, Orquesta Filharmónica de Cali, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica, Buffalo Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Hoffman has collaborated in many tours and projects with Maurizio Pollini and Salvatore Accardo. Together with Salvatore Accardo, he has recorded all of the violin/viola works of Mozart including the Sinfonia Concertante, the Duos for Violin and Viola, the Divertimento for String Trio and the Six Viola Quintets, in addition to many other chamber works by Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Dvorak and Chausson. Mr. Hoffman's extensive discography also includes an album of French chamber music with Andre Previn, as well as several recordings with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Marlboro Music Festival. Mr Hoffman has been a guest violist with the Emerson, Jerusalem, Ysaye, Fine Arts, and Tokyo String Quartets. In 1988 at the Kuhmon Festival in Finland, he gave the world premiere of the Piano Quartet by Alfred Schnittke. For ten years, Mr. Hoffman was an artistic director of Bargemusic, helping it to become one of the most popular concert venues in New York City. As an educator, Mr. Hoffman has held the position of Artist in Residence at Harvard University and has been a member of the faculties of Carnegie-Mellon University and the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival. Mr. Hoffman was a Professor of Chamber Music and Orchestral Studies at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal. He has given master-classes at the New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, TNUA University in Taiwan, Citta di Castello, Livorno, Kuhmo, Turku, the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium. Born into a musical family, Toby Hoffman began his musical training at the age of six studying the violin with his mother, Esther Glazer. He continued his studies as a violist with Paul Doktor, graduating from the Juilliard School with both Bachelor and Master Degrees. He later studied conducting in Finland with Jorma Panula, where he became a conducting teacher for both the college and pre-college divisions at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Mr. Hoffman currently resides in Portugal, where he has been the Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Theatro and the Orquestra de Câmara do Minho.

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    Duet No.1 for Two Violas Toby Hoffman & Paul Rosenthal
• Akimi Fukuhara

  Praised in the New York Times for her "energetic" and "shapely read" performances, pianist Akimi Fukuhara has appeared at many prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Salle Cortot in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, The National Concert Hall in Taipei, The Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, the Beijing Concert Hall. Ms. Fukuhara was born in Osaka, Japan, and studied under the tutelage of Mie Ishii Matsuoka in Tokyo. She made her recital debut at the age of 12 in Tokyo's prestigious Suntory Hall. L'enfant de la musique, the live recording of her recital at Hamarikyu-Asahi Hall in Tokyo at the age of 14 was released under the Platz Label, and is available today from the Naxos Music Library. She came to the United States at the age of 15, going on to study at San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Mack McCray and Sharon Mann. At the age of 17, Akimi recorded her second solo album, Akimi Plays Chopin and Liszt. Subsequently, Akimi was awarded the Susan W. Rose Scholarship at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. Beginning in 2010 Ms. Fukuhara has collaborated extensively with the legendary cellist, Christine Walevska. Together they recorded three albums and have toured throughout Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Ecuador, and New York. One concert was featured on NHK-FM's Best of Classics radio program, and the live recording was released from Japan Westminster in 2011. In 2014 they recorded an album sponsored by the ChiMei Museum in Taiwan. Ms. Fukuhara was also named a CHANEL Pygmalion Days Artist in Japan. In 2017, she released her third solo album Brahms: Klavierstücke which was featured in the December 2017 issue of Record Gaijutsu magazine, the premier classical music magazine in Japan. As a chamber musician, she has performed and recorded with renowned artists including Christine Walevska, Nathaniel Rosen, Pierre Amoyal, Toby Hoffman, Heiichiro Ohyama, Fred Sherry, Alexander Barantschik, Wang Tao, and many others. Ms. Fukuhara has recorded three albums under the ShoFuSha label, and two more are in the works. In February 2019, Akimi will be performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama.

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    R. Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47 / Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 Pierre Amoyal, Yuko Shimizu-Amoyal, Nathaniel Rosen & Akimi Fukuhara
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    Pierre Amoyal Violin Recital Pierre Amoyal & Akimi Fukuhara