Sassari, the Baroque according to the Japanese harpsichordist Takashi Watanabe
New appointment with "Wednesdays at the Conservatory"
From Japan to Europe, where he has lived since 2002, to delve into the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The harpsichordist Takashi Watanabe performs on Wednesday in the Sassu room at 7pm (free admission) for "Wednesdays of the Conservatory". An event that the "Canepa" of Sassari organized with the collaboration of the cultural association "Arte in musica".
Teacher at the Hochschule der Kunst in Bern, Switzerland, Takashi Watanabe, will propose a program based on the Baroque: Toccata II “Arpeggiata” in G major by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580-1651), Toccata of the Eighth Tone and Canzona VIII in G major by Paolo Quagliati (1555-1628), Toccata III in G major , Partita in G minor and Partita VI in C major by Johann Jakob Froberger, Fantasie und Fuga in A minor by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Toccata Settima (from II book) and Capriccio sopra l'Aria di Ruggiero by Girolamo Frescobaldi.
Takashi Watanabe graduated in Piano at the Tokyo College of Music and subsequently completed the postgraduate course in harpsichord at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 2002 he moved to Europe, where he studied harpsichord with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdam Conservatory and graduated in historical organ with Lorenzo Ghielmi at the Scuola Civica in Milan. In 2004 he founded the ensemble “Recreation d'Arcadia” to explore the varied panorama of instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble won the “Premio Bonporti 2004” in Rovereto and has since been invited to numerous early music festivals in Europe.
