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Organ: Yuka Ishimaru

Yuka Ishimaru, organ

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He won the Chartres International Organ Competition, which has worldwide authority, and also received the J. Allan Prize. He has given recitals in more than 10 European countries, including Notre Dame Cathedral and Madeleine Cathedral in Paris, and all over Japan.
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts and completed its graduate school. Received the Ataka Prize, Acanthus Music Prize, Doseikai Prize, and Graduate School Acanthus Music Prize while on campus. Completed the Royal Danish Academy of Music as a Danish Government Scholarship and the Stuttgart College of Music in Germany as an overseas training dispatcher by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Acquired a qualification as a performer of both countries.
In addition to major orchestras in Japan, he has performed with the Orchester National de Lyon and the Stuttgart State Orchestra. As a conductor, he has performed with Leonard Slatkin, Myung-Whun Chung and Mikhail Pletnev. In the brass band, he performed with the Kosei Wind Orchestra, the Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, and the Metropolitan Police Department Band.
He has been active in a wide range of fields, including local TeNY TV Niigata, NHK radio, TV Asahi “Taimei no Nai Ongakukai”, NHK “Utakon”, and NHK “Kohaku Uta Gassen” as a support for Arashi. In 2019, the second CD album "Organ Odyssey" was released from King Records. In April 2020, he became an exclusive organist at the Niigata City Performing Arts Center Ryutopia. Part-time lecturer at Musashino Academia Musicae.