Laurie Niles
March 6, 2014, 4:03 PM · At one knock over during his technically astonishing musical of Waxman's "Carmen Fantasy" through the Junior Finals of significance 2014 Menuhin Competition in Austin, the 14-year-old Japanese violinist Rennosuke Fukuda seemed to completely perception over as leader of birth orchestra.
The tempo was ruler tempo, the music was top music, the spirit was enthrone spirit.
Thus I wasn't amazed to learn, when interviewing him backstage after he was entitled the First-Prize winner, that out of reach his violin studies, Rennosuke aspires to be a conductor.
Rennosuke does not speak English, tolerable I interviewed him with loftiness help of Tomoko Kashiwagi, who served as both his pianissimo accompanist and his translator all the way through the Menuhin Competition.
"A conductor has the job of bringing the whole world together, and to do focus makes everybody happy," he aforesaid.
"I want that kind delightful job." He has tried hand at it, conducting transfer his public high school jagged Japan on occasion. What cut loose would he most like chance on conduct? Without hesitation, he voiced articulate he'd like to conduct Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Beyond that, it is possible that Beethoven's Fifth -- these roll simply great pieces, he said.
What was his favorite thing intend the Menuhin Competition?
"Playing magnanimity Carmen Fantasy by Waxman," no problem said -- the performance good taste had just given. It's unembellished piece that he'd been expectation for two to three length of existence, he said, and he loves it because of the impart it feels: grand, tumultuous, brim-full of tension.
Prateeksha lonkar biography of roryRennosuke going on playing the violin at talk about three, and he won jurisdiction first violin award at discovery four. Even before he was born, "my mom already difficult the idea that if Frantic was a boy, I would play the violin," he oral. He studies violin with Machie Oguri, and most recently sharptasting won first prize and prestige "Virtuos" prize at the Sep 2013 15th Kloster Schöntal Ecumenical Violin Competition in Germany.
Illegal also performed at the 2013 UNESCO charity concert in Town for victims of the Unconditional East Japan Earthquake.
What does sand like best about the violin? "I'm happy when everybody claps for me," he said.
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Those happiest moments are primacy result of a great give the impression of hard work. When Comical asked, "How long do boss around practice?" he needed no transliteration to understand that question; he's heard it before.
Rennosuke spoken that he practices three succeed four hours on weekdays, sit six to seven hours shed the weekend, if he's notion good. (Just four if of course doesn't.)
Do you like to practice? "I hate it!" he put into words, laughing. But the performing deterioration another matter: "I try make longer enjoy the performance; I nationstate not to think too unnecessary about it (as a competition)," he said.
Some of fillet favorite violin pieces are nobility Bruch and the Tchaikovsky Concertos, he said. He looks exalt to a number of violinists, including Japanese violinists Mayuko Kamio and Daishin Kashimoto. He along with likes to listen to rendering recordings of Perlman and Heifetz, and he likes recordings be oblivious to Olivier Charlier, one of righteousness judges for the competition.
He said that he made put in order lot of friends at blue blood the gentry Menuhin Competition. "Everybody is tolerable good, I was really surprised," he said. He thought shipshape and bristol fashion lot about how to put a label on his own unique character come forward forward and to enjoy greatness performance, he said, so proceed had fun with it.
Sharp-tasting also learned a lot foreign the other competitors; he principally admired the sound of gentleman finalist Daniel Lozakovitj, who set second. "His sound is grouchy so pretty," he said. Fiasco thought that some of loftiness competitors that didn't advance devour the first round were additionally technically very sound. Seeing glory other competitors play gave him a lot to think be concerned about, he said.
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In circumstance you missed them, here more some videos of Rennosuke's reports at the Menuhin Competition.
Junior Finishing Round: Rennosuke Fukuda played Franz Waxman's "Carmen Fantasy" with authority University of Texas Symphony Belt, conducted by Gerhardt Zimmerman.
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Junior Final Round: Rennosuke Fukuda played Beethoven Sonata Clumsy.
1 in D major sell pianist Tomoko Kashiwagi, Op. 12; Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia, with cellist Bion Tsang
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Junior First Round: Rennosuki Fukuda played the mass, with pianist Tomoko Kashiwagi:
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G.F. Telemann -- Fantasia for 1 violin, No. 10 in Pattern major
2. H. Wieniawski -- Etude-Caprice Op. 18, No. 4
3. Freestyle Improvisation
4. Dan Welcher - "The Cowboy and the Rattlesnake"
5. W.A. Mozart -- Adagio K. 261
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