Youichi HEMBO (Recorder)
Having got a Physics degree in Tsukuba university, he started to study early music for 4 years with Pedro Memelsdorff at Escola Sperior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona, then moved to Zurich, Switzerland to continue his study with Kees Boeke. In Zurich, Zuricher Hochschule der Kunst (ZHDK) he was awarded a scholarships from Swiss government (ESKAS) which is really rare opportunity in his field. For more than 2 years study there, he has got a master degree with the highest mark and came back to Japan, Tsukuba on Feb.2009. He teaches in Tsukuba and Mito and has already done many concerts in Ibaraki, Tokyo.
Official BLOG (only Japanese) http://ameblo.jp/nakal-fl/
Recommendation
Youchi Hembo is an inspired musician and a wonderful virtuoso on the recorder. His great sense of sound and rhythmical flexibility manifest themselves most brilliantly in the Italian
repertoire of the 16th and 17th century as well as in medieval diminutions. I wish him many wonderful concerts! (Kees BOEKE)
Youichi is so fundamentally intelligent and musical that he is able to understand and communicate music not only from the standard baroque repertoire in Italy, France England and Germany, but also from the medieval and renaissance periods, and most exceptionally from the large body of contemporary literature written for the recorder. It is rare to find such a well-rounded musician in the early music field. (Jill FELDMAN)
