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Music Liberal-Arts

 

Distinguished visiting performers often give master classes at TCM. This experience enhances performance skills and helps promote the students’ abilities. All majors and minors have opportunities to attend master classes. Some distinguished artists that have given master classes at TCM since 2008 are:
Federico Agostini, Moshe Atzmon, Felix Ayo, Boris Belkin, Michel Béroff, Artem Chirkov, Barry Douglas, Vladimir Feltsman, Robert Howes, Peter Jablonski, Isabelle van Keulen, Zygmunt Krauze, Wieland Kuijken, Albrecht Mayer, Cristina Ortiz, Isabelle Perrin, Johannes Schöllhorn, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Erik Tawaststjerna, Maxim Vengerov, and Eliso Virsaladze.

Master Classes for 2024








 

April 10 Composition Master Class Ensemble InterContemporain
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June 17 Euphonium Master Class David Childs
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July 8 & 10 Musicology Special Lecture Barbara Dobretsberger
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November 25 Horn Master Class Szabolcs Zempleni
November 26 Strings Master Class Les Volques String Trio

Piano majorPiano Topics and Professional Development 2024

April 5 Guidance TCM Professors
April 12 Lecture on the Mikimoto Method Mitsuyo Yamamoto
April 19 Lecture on Mozart and performance Kikuko Ogura
April 26 Lecture on mental training Masaomi Iyo
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May 10 Lecture on academism in the US Noriko Ohtake
May 17 Chamber music masterclass and performance Rieko Suzuki, Akira Wakabayashi
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May 24 Performance and lecture on Chopin Ewa Poblocka
May 31 Lecture on accompaniment Nobuyuki Hirose
June 5 Piano performance and masterclass Eliso Virsaladze
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June 14 Lecture on concert production Jun Sawahashi
June 21 Lecture on composition Celeri Haruhata
June 28 Lecture on Messiaen and performance Masaaki Yasuda
July 5 Lecture on tuning Shinya Saito
July 12 Forum on evaluation of music Tomoaki Yoshida and TCM professors
July 19 Lecture and masterclass on Mozart Yuka Imamine
September 13 Guidance TCM professors
September 20 Piano Masterclass Ronan O’Hora
September 25 Lecture on concert Masashi Nishimaki
September 27 Lecture on music therapy Kaoru Sekine
October 2 Lecture on improvisation Chika Nagisa
October 11 Forum on Chopin Artur Szklener
October 18 Piano performance and masterclass Gustavo Romero
October 25 Piano masterclass Frank Braley
November 1 Piano performance and masterclass Alex Alguacil
November 8 Lecture on hand and arm issues Aya Kanazuka
November 22 Lecture on piano and computer Yoshihiro Kanno
November 29 Lecture on music students’ careers Paul Hughes
December 20 Piano masterclass Gerald Fauth
January 10 Piano Masterclass George Vatchnadze
January 17 Lecture on Piano Technicians Akira Ochi
  • Master Classes for 2023
    April 10 Voice Master Class Adrian Eröd
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    April 19 Piano Master Class Ronan O’hora
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    May 24 Composition Lecture Chun-Hao Ku
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    June 6 Violin Master Class Kyung Sun Lee
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    June 7 Piano Concert Eliso Virsaladze
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    June 19-20 Cello Master Class Lluís Claret
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    September 8 Voice Master Class Mitsuko Shirai
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    September 11 Voice Master Class Carlo Colombara
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    November 8 Horn Concert Přemysl Vojta
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    November 21 Brass Concert Septura
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    November 24 Percussion Master Class Franz Schindlbeck
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    January 9, 2024 Vocal Lecture Takumi Oomae
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    January 19, 2024 Vocal Master Class Makiko Kinoshita
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    February 15, 2024 Piccolo Master Class Jean-Louis Beaumadier
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    March 4, 2024 Musical Master Class Jiro Takano
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    Piano majorMusic Interpretation 2023

    April 5 Guidance TCM Professors
    April 19 Piano Master Class Ronan O’hora
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    May 10 Piano Master Class Martin Stadtfeld
    May 17 Piano Master Class Eckart Heiligers
    May 24 Piano Master Class Masataka Takada
    June 7 Piano Concert Eliso Virsaladze
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    June 21 Piano Master Class Yuma Osaki
    July 12 Piano Master Class Henri Sigfridsson
    July 19 Piano Master Class Yuka Imamine
    September 20 Piano Master Class Naoya Otsuka
    October 4 Piano Master Class Pascal Devoyon
    November 8 Piano Master Class Miroslav Kultyshev
    November 22 Piano Master Class Stephan Moller
  • Master Classes for 2022
    May 25 Horn Master Class Saal Berger
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    June 8 Conducting Master Class Boris Davidovich Belkin
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    June 21 Conducting Lecture Isao Takashima/Mansai Omori/Yasuhiro Kondo
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    July 2 Violin Master Class Dmitry Sitkovetsky
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    July 26  Conducting Lecture Yoichi Nakamura
    September 20 Purcussion Master Class Michael Vladar
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    October 31  Cello Master Class Mario Brunello
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    November 8 Tuba Master Class Gene Pokorny
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    November 24 Tenor Master Class Arnold Bezuyen
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    November 30  Piano Master Class Eliso Virsaladze
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    December 21  Violin Master Class Simon Blendis
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    January 24  Cello Master Class Ayumu Kuwata
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    January 30 Conducting Lecture Shinji Miyadai
    February 5 Saxophone Lecture Claude Delangle
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    February 14 Orchestral Excerpts Ayumu Kuwata
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    March 1  Flute Master Class János Bálint
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    March 18 Clarinet Master Class Florent Héau
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    Piano majorMusic Interpretation 2022

    April 6 Guidance TCM Professors
    April 20 Lecture Midori Takeishi
    April 27 Lecture Srephan Moller
    May 18 Piano Master Class Barry Douglas
    May 25 Lecture Ichiro Nodaira
    June 1 Lecture Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
    June 15 Piano Master Class Michel Béroff
    July 6 Lecture Aya Kanazuka
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    July 20 Piano Master Class Geroge Vatchnadze
    September 21 Lecture Kikuko Ogura
    October 5 Piano Master Class Pascal Devoyon
    November 16 Piano Master Class Miroslav Kultyshev
    November 30 Piano Master Class Elisso Virsaladze
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    January 18 Seminar TCM Professors
  • Master Classes for 2017
    April 17 Voice Master Class Luca Gorla
    May 8 Percussion Master Class Simone Rubino
    May 10 Voice Master Class Raffaele Cortes
    May 23 / 24 Violin Master Class Lucie Robert
    May 29 Composition Lecture Dogen Kinowaki
    June 7 Cello Master Class Lluis Claret
    June 9 Lecture “What’s in a Song?” Patricia Shehan Campbell
    June 22 Conducting Master Class Paavo Jarvi
    June 26 Wind Ensemble Master Class James Barnes
    September 6 Voice Master Class Vincenzo Taramelli
    September 19 Composition Lecture Dogen Kinowaki
    October 3,4,5 Conducting Master Class (Violin) Boris Belkin
    October 4 Timpani Master Class Raymond Curfs
    October 12 Viola Master Class Wilfried Strehle
    October 14 Voice Workshop Ricardo Tamura
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    October 30 Voice Master Class Ricardo Tamura
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    October 30 Voice Master Class Marcella Reale
    November 11 Violin Master Class Shunsuke Sato
    November 13 Trumpet Master Class Pierre Dutot
    November 22 Double Bass Master Class Dominic Seldis
    November 28 Horn Master Class Christoph Ess
    December 7 Piano Master Class Elisso Virsaladze
  • Master Classes for 2016

    April 18 Voice Master Class Ricardo Tamura
    April 18 Flute Master Class Patrick Gallois
    April 28 Composition Lecture Ivan Fedele
    June 9 Cello Master Class Lluis Claret
    June 10 Composition Lecture Peter Veale
    June 13 Voice Master Class Hiroshi Oga
    June 16 Composition Lecture Yukiko Sugawara
    June 27 Percussion Master Class Adrian Spillett
    June 28 Conducting Master Class Tsugio Tokunaga
    July 7 Lecture “Universality and Variability of Music” Tsuyoshi Hondou
    October 8 Percussion Master Class Thomas Lechner
    October 31 Composition Lecture David Eagle
    October 31 Voice Master Class Akihiro Shiota
    November 16 Euphonium Master Class Bastien Baumet
    November 24 Clarinet Master Class Philippe Berrod
    November 24 Horn Master Class Johannes Hinterholzer
    December 9 Conducting Lecture Tsutomu Ougitani
  • Master Classes for 2015
    May 8 Tuba Master Class Daniel Perantoni
    May 20 Marimba Master Class David C Panzl
    May 27 Violin Master Class Maxim Vengerov
    June 11 Horn Master Class Szabolcs Zempleni
    June 15 Lecture “Contemporary Works and
    Tuba” 1    		 Shinya Hashimoto
    June 19 Kyoto City University of Arts &
    Tokyo College of Music
    Conducting Master Class    		 Nobutaka Masui
    June 22 Voice Master Class Makiko Kinoshita
    June 26 Flute Master Class William Bennett
    July 16 Voice Master Class Stefano Mastrangelo
    September 14 Voice Master Class Katherine Paterson
    September 18 Composition Lecture “Exploring New
    Possibilities for Woodwind Quintet”    		 Slowind Woodwind Quintet
    October 7 Trumpet Master Class Pasi Pirinen
    October 16 Composition Lecture FLUX Quartet / Eric Huebner
    October 16 Lecture “Contemporary Works and
    Tuba” 2    		 Shinya Hashimoto
    November 10 Clarinet Master Class Charles Neidich
    December 2 Conducting Lecture Tsutomu Ogitani
    December 15 Cello Master Class Hidemi Suzuki
    February 22 Voice Master Class Yuka Takara
  • Master Classes for 2014
    April 16 Cello Master Class Wen-Sinn Yang
    May 15 Violin Master Class Irina Tseitlin
    May 29 Oboe Master Class Filippe Tondre
    June 3 Violin Master Class Maxim Vengerov
    June 20 Trumpet Master Class Anthony Plog
    June 30 Lecture / Talk Osvaldo Golijov
    October 2 Flute Master Class Renate Greiss-Armin
    October 10 Composition Master Class (Accordion) Stefan Hussong
    November 10 Conducting Master Class Niels Muus
    November 19 Harp Master Class Béatrice Guillermin
    November 20 Voice Individual Lessons Vladimir Voronin
    December 6 Symposium / Concert Doctoral Course A
    Wu Wei
    Hong Yoo
    December 8 Composition Lecture Benjamin Attahir
    December 15 Cello Lecture Hidemi Suzuki
    December 16 Cello Master Class Hidemi Suzuki
    December 18 Conducting Lecture Tsutomu Ogitani
  • Master Classes for 2013
    Jan. 21 Voice Master Class Marcella Reale
    April 16 Cello Master Class Wen-Sinn Yang
    April 23 Violin Individual Lessons Koh Gabriel Kameda
    June 3 Composition Lecture Allain Gaussin
    June 25/26 Cello Lecture / Master Class Hidemi Suzuki
    July 8 Composition Lecture Michiko Hirayama / Maki Ohta
    July 9 Conducting Master Class Boris Belkin
    July 11 Percussion Master Class / Individual Lessons Bogdan Bacanu / The Wave Quartet
    October 4 Voice Master Class / Individual Lessons Julio Alexis Munoz
    October 18 Composition Lecture Zbigniew Skowron
    October 21 Composition Lecture Gaku Yamada
    October 29 Euphnium Master Class David Childs
    November 14 Percussion Master Class / Individual Lessons Isao Nakamura
    November 19 Voice Master Class Raffaele Cortesi
    December 3 String Quartet Master Class Szymanowski Quartet
    December 4 Voice Individual Lessons Raffaele Cortesi
    October 12-13 Baroque Cello Master Class / Lecture Hidemi Suzuki
    January 15 Bass-Trombone Master Class / Performance Paul Milner
    October 25-26 Percussion/Orchestra Master Class Michel Vladar
    November 4 Cello Master Class & Individual Lesson Luis Claret
    November 16 Piano Individual Lesson Christopher Elton
    December 6 Conducting Master Class Pietari Inkinen
    January 21 Tuba Lecture Shinya Hashimoto