Masaaki Suzuki is an organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan. He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christian and amateur musicians. He studied composition and organ at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and was later taught harpsichord and organ by Ton Koopman and Piet Kee and improvisation by Klaas Bolt at the Sweelink Conservatory in Amsterdam. Wikipedia
Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan in Bach's Mass in B minor at the Barbican, London EC1, on May 30. arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1772720,00.html
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