LUTES, VIOLS and fretted instruments
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The lute and viola da gamba player, RYOSUKE SAKAMOTO is incredibly unique player especially in Renaissance era. His virtuosity and intelligence keep world being surprised.<\/p>\n

As a soloist, Ryosuke won the first prize (no second prize) and audience prize in the competition \u201cIII Consorso Maurizio Pratla<\/a>\u201d in L\u2019Aquila (IT) in the department for Solo-Lute (July 2013) (read<\/a>). He was already invited to many international festivals to have recitals, like \u201cRezonanzen\u201d (January 2011), \u201cLes journ\u00e9es du luth<\/a>\u201d in Paris (March 2012, held by French Lute Society), \u201cFest f\u00fcr die Laute Wien\u201d (May 2012), \u201cInternationales Festival der Laute<\/a>\u201d in Bremen (May 2012, held by German Lute Society) and \u201cYoung musicians\u2019 day\u201d (September 2013, held by English lute Society).<\/p>\n

Beside his activities as a soloist, he is playing in various ensembles. Ryosuke is a member of the lute consort \u201cDelight in Disorder\u201d as well as the English broken-consort \u201cThe Queen\u2019s Revels\u201d<\/a> as a lutenist and braccio-gamba consort “Concerto Ripiglino”<\/a> as a viole player. “Ensemble Il bell\u2019humore”<\/a>, which specializes in renaissance music in 2012, won the F\u00f6rderpreis Alte Musik<\/a> 2015 in Saarbr\u00fccken (DE) and gave the concert and masterclass at Festival de Musique Improvis\u00e9e de Lausanne 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RYOSUKE SAKAMOTO was born in Nara (JP), and is living in Basel (CH). At the age of three, he first became interested in early music performance under the influence of his parents. He began to play medieval plucked instruments, later studied lute and the viola da gamba. He appeared in many concert in Japan, both as solo player and ensemble player, including the work with Bach Collegium Japan.<\/p>\n

In 2007, the year of his graduation at Tokyo University (bachelor degree on aesthetics) he released his solo CD \u2018Travels with my Lute<\/a>\u2019 (MRCD-013), recorded in Sweden, where he spent three years in his yourth. This recording got a praised commentary on the CD magazine \u201cGramophone\u201d, in November 2011 (read<\/a>). And second solo CD ‘Polyphony & Diminution<\/a>‘ has just released in April 2016 after his Crowdfunding project.<\/p>\n

He is a member of English Lute Society and Japanese Viola da Gamba Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LUTES, VIOLS and fretted instruments contact: \u00a0contrapvnctvs [at] ybb.ne.jp \u00a0             The lute and viola da gamba player, RYOSUKE SAKAMOTO is incredibly unique player especially in Renaissance era. His virtuosity and intelligence keep world being surprised. As a soloist, Ryosuke won the first prize (no second prize) and audience prize … <\/p>\n

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