NHK에서 10월 2일(일) 아침에 유리코 호리고메가 2010년 1월 20일 산도리홀에서 켠 베토벤 바이올린협주곡 녹화필름을 방영해 주었다. 베토벤의 바이올린협주곡은 숭엄하고 아름답다. 나이가 좀 든 사람이 켜야 그 장대한 숭엄을 느낄 수가 있는 것 같다. 호리고메의 베토벤도 그래서 좋았다.
호리고메는 외양으로 보면 애뜻하고 아름다움은 벗어난 모습이지만 음악을 즐기는 원숙함이 듣는 이에게감동을 주는 그런 연주였다.
연주를 하면서 연주자 본인이 음악을 즐기고 있다는 모습을 곳곳에서 볼 수가 있었다. 그 녀가 연주하는 악기는 1741년에 만든 ‘조셉 구아르네리 델 게수’ 라고 한다. 그래서 그런지 울리는 소리가 참 좋았다.
숭엄함으로 말한다면 ‘조셉 시게티’나 ‘오이스트라크’가 최고지만, 호리고메는 호리고메대로 맛이 있었다. 멜로디와 리듬을 끊는 딕션은 명확하지 않지만 음악의 흐름을 타는 연주가 아름다웠다.
연주가 끝나고 환하게 웃는 모습이 스스로도 만족스러운 모습이었다.
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Born in Tokyo, Yuzuko Horigome started to learn piano at the age of 4 and violin at the age of 5. Starting violin with Ryosaku Kubota she achieved her skill with Toshiya Eto at the Toho Gakuen Academy.
In 1980 she won the First Great Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. This was the start of tours throughout the world with among others the direction of Claudio Abbado, André Prévin, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Riccardo Chailly, Erich Leinsdorf, Seiji Ozawa, Ivan Fischer, Simon Rattle, Sandor Vegh, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt and of course, many others.
So she performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orkestra, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmony, Pittsburgh and Chicago Orchestras, the Tonhalle Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the orchestra of the Scala di Milano, the Montreal symphonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Birmingham orchestra, the Czech’s Philharmonic, the Camerata Academica Mozarteum Salzburg, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and so on …
Invited to participate at internationally well known festivals such as Marlboro (generating tours in the States and Japan), Lockenhaus, Tanglewood and Musicfest La Jolla she had the occasion to share her foundness for chamber music with exceptional artists like Martha Argerich, Nobuko Imai, Mischa Maisky, Charles Neidich, Jean-Marc Luisada, Abdel Rahman El-Bacha, Gidon Kremer, Janos Starker and late Rudolf Serkin
Together with Nobuko Imai, Thomas Zehetmair or afterwards Pamela Franck and Antonio Meneses she created the Casals Hall Quartet, quartet residing at the Casals Hall in Tokyo. Cheered by the press, this quartet realised since 1990 six tours in Japan.
During a single season she performed with the NHK Symphony directed by Ashkenazy, the St Petersburg Academy Orchestra directed by Dimitriev and at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam with the Flanders orchestra.
During 2004 and 2005 she shared a concert with Martha Argerich at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo before starting with her a tour in Argentina and Italy. In 2008, this duet was also invited by the Flanders and the Lugano festivals.
Between 2003 and 2006 she performed in Japan with Momo Kodama playing and recording complete sonatas of Mozart. In parallel, during season 2005-2006, happened tours in France and Japan with the pianist Jean-Marc Luisada, some event being broadcasted by NHK.
In 2008, with in between the clarinettist Charles Neidich she performed Messiaen’s quartet « Pour la fin des temps » which was recorded on a DVD by NHK.
From 2008 till 2010 she joined Abdel Rahman El Bacha to perform in Japan and Europe the complete sonatas of Beethoven.
With Philippe Graffin, Abdel Rahman El-Bacha, Roger Chase and Jeroen Reuling she recently founded the group Consonances which performs currently in Holland, Belgium and Japan.
In January 2010, during a tour in Japan, she was demanded to stand in for an ill soloist at a moment’s notice. The concert took place with the NHK Symphony directed by Jun-ichi Hirokami and was broadcasted live NHK. Praised unanimously by the press, her performance was considered as a highlight of the season.
She recorded under label SONY, CBS, DENON, TRING, Lockenhaus Edition, Camerata Tokyo, DABRINGHAUS und GRIMM, TALENT, NAMI, GAILLY and PAVANE, as a non exhaustive list works of Bach, Vitali, Veracini, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Lalo, Vieuxtemps, Paganini, Sibelius, Debussy, Ravel, Franck, Granados, de Falla, Sarasate, Shostakovich, Bartok, Takemitsu, Enesco, Dutilleux, Miyoshi, Mochizuki, Gondai and so on for concertos and chamber music.
Very much in demand in Japan, Yuzuko Horigome induced the contribution of several Japanese composers who proposed to dedicate solo violin works to her. This project will generate recitals recurded live in Tokyo and Kyoto during the next five years. Another project initiated by Yuzuko Horigome, called Bach-Brahms will propose alternate works of those two composers during next three years.
Besides her performances as a soloist or chamber music player, Yuzuko Horigome is a professor at the Dutch-speaking section of the Brussels Royal Music Academy. Her ability for accompanying her students at the piano is quite an asset here. Her recognized teacher qualities led her to give numerous master classes in California, Japan, France or Denmark.
At last, when her tours everywhere in the world allow her to do so, she answers positively to requests to be on international juries of competitions like the Queen Elisabeth in Belgium, Sendai International in Japan or Indianapolis in the States.
