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{{nihongo|'''Masaaki Suzuki'''|鈴木 雅明|Suzuki Masaaki|born 29 April 1954}} is a Japanese [[pipe organ|organist]], [[harpsichord]]ist and, [[Conducting|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.

| first=Damian | last=Thompson | author-link=Damian Thompson | work =[[The Spectator]] | date= 12 March 2016 | access-date= 2019-06-20}}</ref> Masaaki Suzuki began playing organ professionally at church services at the age of 12.<ref name= "sundaybaroque.org"/> He earned degrees in composition and organ at the [[Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music]], then earned Soloist Diplomas at the [[Conservatorium van Amsterdam|Sweelinck Conservatory]] in [[Amsterdam]], where he studied harpsichord and organ with [[Ton Koopman]] and [[Piet Kee]] and improvisation with [[Klaas Bolt]].<ref name= "Yale" /><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.grovemusic.com/ |title= Grove music|website=Grovemusic.com |access-date= 2017-04-12}}</ref>

From 1981 to 1983 he was a harpsichord instructor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in [[Duisburg]], Germany. In 1983 he returned to Japan, where he began teaching at [[Kobe Shoin Women's University]]. In 1990 he founded [[Bach Collegium Japan]], a [[baroque orchestra]] and chorus. The group began givingperforming concerts regularly in 1992, and made its first recordings three years later, when they began recording Bach's complete [[cantata]]s for the Swedish label [[BIS Records]].<ref name= "Leipzig" /> They completed the 55-volume series of [[Church cantata (Bach)|church cantatas]] in 2013. They completed Bach's secular cantatas (in 10 albums) in 2018. They have also recorded all of Bach's Lutheran Masses. The ensemble has also recorded all the large choral works of Bach; their [[St. John Passion]] and [[Christmas Oratorio]] were both selected as ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]''’s "Recommended Recordings," and the St. John Passion was also winner in the 18th and 19th-century choral music category at the [[Cannes Classical Awards]] in 2000. Their recording of Bach's Motets won a German Record Critics’ Award ([[Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik]]), [[Diapason d'Or]] of the Year 2010 and a [[BBC Music Magazine]] Award in 2011; their recording of the [[Mass in B Minor]] won the [[Diapason d'Or]] in 2008.

* 2008: [[Diapason d'Or]] (for his recording of Bach's [[Mass in B Minorminor]]).<ref>{{citationCite web needed|title=Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 |url=https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7960314--bach-j-s-mass-in-b-minor-bwv232 |access-date=July2024-06-19 2018|website=Presto Music |language=en}}</ref>

[[Category:Harpsichordists1954 births]]

[[Category:PeopleMusicians from Kobe]]