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Masaaki Suzuki

1954 - Today

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Masaaki Suzuki (鈴木 雅明, Suzuki Masaaki; born 29 April 1954) is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist, conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masaaki Suzuki is the 1,251st most popular composer (down from 1,240th in 2019), the 1,477th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,360th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 1,251 out of 1,451Before him are Emil Hartmann, William Schuman, Leigh Harline, Sergei Slonimsky, Xian Xinghai, and Mark Snow. After him are Antón García Abril, George Alexander Macfarren, Frigyes Hidas, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Virgil Thomson, and Alberto Nepomuceno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 390Before him are Toshiaki Imai, Phil Zimmermann, Joe Bryant, Herbert Zimmermann, Graziano Rossi, and Anna Grodzka. After him are Jonathan Pollard, Mark Herman, Michael Badalucco, Piero Gros, Terry Kinney, and Jeffrey Combs.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 1,477 out of 6,245Before him are Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Hiro Mashima (1977), Kōichi Yamadera (1961), Taiki Tsuruno (1990), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), and Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936). After him are Takeshi Honda (1981), Shunji Iwai (1963), Kikuko Inoue (1964), Ken Sugimori (1966), Takamasa Yamazaki (1992), and Kenjiro Tsuda (1971).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Masaaki Suzuki ranks 17Before him are Akira Ifukube (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Shirō Sagisu (1957), and Akira Yamaoka (1968). After him are Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), Junichi Masuda (1968), Kaoru Wada (1962), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), and Kazumi Totaka (1967).