The wonderful guest artist who will be performing with the Youth Orchestras of Fresno’s Youth Philharmonic on Sunday November 3 (4pm, Fresno High) is Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, who for twenty years taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where one of his students was our own music director, Thomas Loewenheim.
It is because of Dr. Loewenheim that Professor Tsutsumi is traveling all the way from Japan to Fresno to perform and teach as part of Loewenheim’s annual cello-crazed Cello|Fresno festival, which he co-directs with Indiana University cello professor Emilio Colón.
Tsutsumi’s long and stroried career has included a first-prize win in the Casals Competition in Budapest in 1963, solo performances with most of the great orchestras of the world, and a concert telecast worldwide at the United Nations with the Toho Gakuen Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa. After his years at Indiana University he served as president of the Toho Gakuen School of Music for nine years. He is now Music Director of Kirishima International Music Festival and President of Suntory Hall, all in Japan.
We are thrilled that he will be in Fresno to share his immense knowledge with our young musicians.
Hear the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, conducted by Thomas Loewenheim, at the Cello|Fresno final concert on Sunday November 3 at 4pm at Fresno High School’s Royce Hall.
