Janne Tateno - Monologo via Corda (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

JANNE-YUKI TATENO (b.1975, Helsinki) started learning the violin at the age of five as a student of Géza Szilvay. In 1993, he began studies at the Helsinki Conservatory under Sirkka Kuula and Olga Parhomenko. Tateno transferred to Roosevelt University in Chicago to study with Yuko Mori in the fall of 1999 where he graduated with his BM in Violin Performance (’03).
Since his years as a student, Tateno has been active in forming ensembles and organizing concerts. Together with his musician friends in Helsinki, Janne founded the Chamber Orchestra La Tempesta in 1997. To date, he acts as the orchestra’s concertmaster and artistic director. For a ten year period starting in 1998, Tateno was actively involved in the Oulunsalo Soi Music Festival, serving as the concertmaster of the festival orchestra (La Tempesta), chamber musician, as well as baroque and tango violinist. During his time in Chicago, he played in the Eusia String Quartet. The group won First prize at the 2001 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in Indiana. Since 1999, Tateno has been a member of the Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble in Kyoto, performing and recording with the group extensively. He was invited to perform at the 2005 Schubertiade Tamba International Music Festival (Hyogo, Japan) as the artist of the year, and has since appeared at the festival annually.

Tateno moved to Japan in 2008, marking the beginning of his work as the principal second violinist of the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. Since settling in Japan, he has appeared as a guest principal second violinist in several orchestras, including Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Kawasaki Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, Tateno has appeared with Osaka Chamber Orchestra, Erato Kammerorchester Tokyo, Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble, Tokyo Juventus Philharmonic, Kyoto Philharmonic and La Tempesta Chamber Orchestra. In 2015 Tateno performed Wilhelm Kempff’s violin concerto, the first violinist to do so since the work’s premiere in 1932. Tateno is currently one of two artistic directors of Music from Bunshokan- chamber music series in Yamagata. In 2017 he founded the chamber music group Ensemble MIDORI in his current hometown of Yokohama.

In addition to classical music, Tateno plays Argentinean tango with the groups Tangueros Polares, Tangueros Árticos, and Cuarteto Mayumi Kato.

TRACKLIST

1. Janne Tateno - Arioso Interrotto for unaccompanied violin
2. Janne Tateno - Sonata-monologue for unaccompanied violin
3. Janne Tateno - Sonata for unaccompanied violin, Op.104
4. Janne Tateno - I. Allemanda
5. Janne Tateno - Ii. Corrente
6. Janne Tateno - Iii. Sarabanda
7. Janne Tateno - Iv. Giga
8. Janne Tateno - V. Ciaccona



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