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2020-01-31 15:27:14
THE SCOOP | Corporation Of Massey Hall And Roy Thomson Hall Appoints New Leadership
The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall has named Jesse Kumagai to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective February 26, 2020.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-07-27 16:40:28
Rebecca Albers has been promoted after seven years as assistant principal viola. Thomas Turner has asked to move back into the viola section, after 23 years as principal. Two new recruits, Natsuki Kumagai and Ben Odhner, join the second violins.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-07-23 22:17:16
FCM Opens Mixed Bag of Modernity
[…] a more modest piece, one which pays gentle tribute to a society now dead. Unfortunately, its modesty is not enough to support its scale; each movement threatens to exhaust interest before its end, and although the peculiar vocal production of the last recorded singer was not to be missed, the piece itself felt overextended. Perhaps some of this might be laid at the foot of the players. The New Fromm Players (Jordan Koransky and Natsuki Kumagai, violin; Mary Ferrillo, viola; Francesca McNeeley, cello) are all TMC alumni brought together under the aegis of the Fromm Foundation for the purpose of playing new music. As such, they are each formidable technicians and expressive players with strong personalities (longtime attendees at NEC concerts might even recognize Kumagai and her forthright playing). An expressly temporary ensemble, they must struggle to find a collective voice, and the group personality projected on this occasion was […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-07-22 05:13:36
Four Premieres Open Music Center Festival
[…] his memories of Tanglewood. It is a sustained piece for string orchestra with solo violin, in which the essence of the music is continuity, broad lyrical lines in both the soloist’s part and the orchestra’s. The solo part, beautifully played by Samantha Bennett, hardly requires the player to take bow off string. The string orchestra, too, plays smoothly and continuously, though often at a different speed from the soloist. At one point the concertmaster, Natsuki Kumagai, departs from the rest of the string orchestra and temporarily plays with the soloist. The coordination of these rolling, continuous waves of sound, in their diverse tempi, was finely directed by conducting Fellow Marzena Diakun. The youngest composer in the opening concert was Andreia Pinto-Correia, from Lisbon but now resident in New York, who studied at the New England Conservatory and was a compositional Fellow in 2009. Her new work was entitled Timaeus, after […]
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