辰巳美納子

Minako Tatsumi studied harpsichord at Tokyo University of the Arts receiving both Undergraduate and Master degrees. In 1991, she won the top prize in the 5th Competition for Early Music in Yamanashi and an award at the Tochigi ‘Kuranomachi’ music festival. She subsequently won a Dutch government scholarship to study at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and graduated with a Soloist Diploma. Minako studied harpsichord with Mitsugu Yamada, Masaaki Suzuki, Anneke Uittenbosch and Gustav Leonhardt. She has also studied the organ and fortepiano. She has enjoyed a varied performance career, and since her return to Japan she has appeared as a soloist on NHK-FM and NHK-BS, and has performed and made recordings both as soloist and basso continuo player on both harpsichord and organ with Bach Collegium Japan, the New Japan Philharmonic, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nagoya Philharmonic, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Kobe City Chamber Orchestra, the Gunma Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Kanagawa Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. She has received praise for her solo performances, which unostentatiously convey the allure of both the music and the instrument, and for her continuo playing which supports the musical expression both precisely and freely.
Her recordings include “J.S.Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, and the Italian Concerto” (Record Geijutsu magazine Tokusenban [critic’s special choice]), “J.S.Bach: 6 Partitas” (Record Geijutsu Tokusenban), “Frescobaldi: Keyboard Works” (Record Geijutsu Jun-tokusenban), “J.S.Bach: Goldberg Variations” (Record Geijutsu Tokusenban), “Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas for Harpsichord Vol. 1&2” (Record Geijutsu Tokusenban), and many others. [as of June 2024]