Nobuko IMAI

Background

Imai, Nobuko was born on March 18, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan.

Education

Imai began her training at Tokyo"s Toho Gakuen School of Music and soon after went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University.

Career

Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument. She has worked in chamber music projects with artists such as Martha Argerich, Kyung-Wha Chung, Heinz Holliger, Mischa Maisky, Midori, Murray Perahia, Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman, and appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Foreign young musicians from Japan and the Netherlands, she founded the East West Baroque Academy.

Her discography includes more than 30 releases on labels such as Bank for International Settlements, Chandos, Directorate General, Electric and Music Industries, Hyperion, and Philips.

Toru Takemitsu composed for her a Viola Concerto A String around Autumn in 1989. Between 1983 and 2003 Imai taught as a Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.

She currently teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (website of conservatory), at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland and at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Geneva (website of conservatory).

Achievements

• Nobuko Imai has been listed as a notable musician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Vermeer Quartet 1974-1979.

Interests

• Cooking.

Connections

Married Aart van Bochove, 1981. 2 children.

Spouse:

Aart von Bochove