Eun-Shik Kim, Ryo Terakado, Kaori Uemura, François Guerrier
Biographie Eun-Shik Kim, Ryo Terakado, Kaori Uemura, François Guerrier
Ryo Terakado
was born in 1961 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He started to play violin at the age of 4, and won 2nd prize in the All Japan Youth Musical Competition when he was 14. Ryo studied violin, chamber music and conducting at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1983, he took third prize in the All Japan Music Competition. Upon graduating from Toho Gakuen, he was invited to become concertmaster of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he held for two years.
Meanwhile, Ryo’s interest in Baroque music had been developing for some time: at the age of 19, he started to teach himself Baroque violin, and in 1985, he moved to the Netherlands to study the instrument at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under the guidance of Sigiswald Kuijken, receiving a soloist diploma in 1989.
Since 1987, he has performed as concertmaster with Baroque orchestras in Europe and Japan including La Petite Bande, Les Arts Florissants, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, and Tokyo Bach Mozart Orchestra; he made regular appearances with these orchestras to perform the concertos of composers including Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. Ryo is also the current concertmaster of Bach Collegium Japan, and is invited frequently to Italy, Poland, France and Australia as a soloist. Since 1994, he has been one of the featured artists in the Hokutopia International Music Festival in Tokyo, where he made his debut as a conductor. His repertoire as a conductor includes operas by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Gluck, Haydn and Mozart.
Ryo is a faculty member of the Hague Royal Conservatory (Holland), The Royal Conservatory in Brussels and his alma mater, Toho Gakuen School of Music (Japan). He teaches regularly at Yonsei University in Seoul and makes concert appearances in Korea.
His discography can be found on the Ricercar (Belgium), Accent (Germany) BIS (Sweden) and Denon (Japan) labels.
Eun-Shik Kim
is a distinguished baroque violinist and artistic director, deeply inspired by faith and the transcendent power of music. Believing that music is a divine gift, she seeks to bring spiritual depth and historical authenticity to her performances. Her journey in historically informed performance (HIP) has led her to renowned stages, where she collaborates with leading musicians and ensembles worldwide, striving to bridge the past and present through the timeless beauty of baroque music.
Eun-Shik Kim performs actively across Europe and Asia. A graduate of Seoul National University (B.M.) and Yale University (M.M. in Modern Violin), she pursued her passion for early music at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and earned her Artist Diploma under the guidance of Ryo Terakado. She has performed across Europe with leading figures in Baroque music including Christophe Coin, Jan de Winne, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Olga Pashchenko and as a soloist with Orchestra Barocca FIMA (Italy), Hibiki String Orchestra (Japan), the Korean Symphony Orchestra, and the complete Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Seoul Arts Centre. Eun-Shik actively performs throughout Europe at festivals such as the Early music festival in Utrecht, Urbino, Bruges, Beaune, La Chaise - Dieu and in Japan, China, and Hong Kong. In Korea, Eun-Shik is the director of Woolim & Peojim, leader of Alte Musik Seoul, and serves as the Artistic Director of the Early Music Series at Seocho Cultural Foundation.
