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Masato Suzuki, harpsichord.
BIS · BIS-2631 →
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Mozart at Bunkamura, the Chofu International Music Festival, New National Theatre Tokyo and Baroque opera with BCJ. Productions conducted, directed and produced by Masato Suzuki.
Masato Suzuki →
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Masato Suzuki conducts and plays harpsichord with BCJ on a tour of seven cities: Budapest, Dublin, London, Hirson, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Berlin. Ryo Terakado (violin and viola); Andreas Böhlen (recorder and oboe); Akira Fukushima (recorder); Akira Harada (viola); Jean-François Madeuf (trumpet and horn); Masamitsu San’nomiya (oboe); Yoko Tsuruta (flute); Alexandre Zanetta (horn)
Bach Collegium Japan →
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An interview with Shinnosuke Nagai on Masato Suzuki’s early encounters with St Matthew Passion, performing and conducting the work, and future ideas. Published 23 January 2026; in Japanese.
住友生命いずみホール · オンライン・ジュピター →
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Masato Suzuki and Kanji Ishimaru bring together Bach’s music and Kenji Miyazawa’s Ame ni mo makezu, from Masato’s official YouTube channel.
Masato Suzuki – 鈴木優人 · 公式YouTube →
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Masato Suzuki, harpsichord. All 24 preludes and fugues.
BIS · BIS-2621 →
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Masato Suzuki and Tomohei Hori discuss a programme exploring Bach and prayer, including Suzuki’s own choral work. Published 29 September 2025; in Japanese.
住友生命いずみホール · オンライン・ジュピター →
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Performances in Groningen, London, Karuizawa, Tokyo and Singapore.
Bach Collegium Japan →
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Masato Suzuki Presents / BCJ Opera Series Vol. 4. Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in three acts, presented in concert, sung in Italian with Japanese subtitles. Tim Mead (Orfeo), Hana Blažíková (Euridice), Jone Martínez (Amore); Masato Suzuki (conductor), Bach Collegium Japan (chorus and orchestra). 21 November 2026 in Nagoya and 23 November in Tokyo. This page brings together information about the 2026 production.
Bach Collegium Japan →
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Antoine Tamestit (viola) and Masato Suzuki (harpsichord), performing the finale of the Third Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord. Recorded at Verbier Church on 1 August 2019.
medici.tv / Idéale Audience · HarrisonParrott →
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Masato Suzuki, harpsichord and direction, with BCJ. BWV 1057, 1055, 1058 and 1054.
BIS · BIS-2481 →
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Masato Suzuki conducts Bach Collegium Japan in the 2025 production, directed by Leo Iizuka with sets by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Rehearsal report from Bunkamura.
Bunkamura →
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Masato Suzuki conducts the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Highlights from Subscription Concert No. 603 on 19 November 2020, including Schubert’s Fourth Symphony and Berio’s Rendering.
読売日本交響楽団 · Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra →
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Masato Suzuki, harpsichord and direction, with BCJ. BWV 1052, 1056, 1059R and 1053.
BIS · BIS-2401 →
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In this Bunkamura interview for the 2024 production of The Magic Flute, Masato Suzuki discusses opera with naco of Gensen Classic Channel. In Japanese.
Bunkamura オープンヴィレッジ →
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A conversation with Masato Suzuki, Kazuki Yamada and Keitaro Harada. The White Day livestream announced by Japan Arts, available on the official Three Conductors channel.
The Three Conductors · 公式YouTube →
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Masaaki Suzuki and Masato Suzuki perform The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080.
BIS · BIS-2531 →
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Masato Suzuki introduces Handel’s Messiah through a quiz-based lecture presented by Suntory Hall, with performance highlights from Bach Collegium Japan.
サントリーホール · Suntory Hall →
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Performance footage from Ensemble Genesis, featured by Japan Arts.
Japan Arts / Ensemble Genesis →
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A Japanese-language feature on the second instalment of the complete harpsichord concerto recording project. Published by Web Onyu-jin in 2019.
Yamaha Music Connect / Web音遊人 →article
“Tamestit has an ideal partner in Masato Suzuki”. Carlos María Solare reviews the duo’s Bach recording in The Strad, October 2019 issue.
The Strad · Carlos María Solare · 2019-09-02 · English →article
“vibrant d’une gestuelle dynamisante et jamais violente” — “gestures that energise without ever becoming violent” (our translation). A review of BCJ’s Mozart programme at the Halle aux grains, Toulouse, on 24 January 2025.
Bachtrack · Thibault d’Hauthuille · 2025-01-26 · Français →article
“Sorprendió gratamente la interpretación de Masato Suzuki, muy expresivo” — “Masato Suzuki’s highly expressive interpretation was a pleasant surprise” (our translation). This excerpt concerns Masato’s Symphony No. 40 in Madrid on 22 January 2025; the full review also covers Masaaki Suzuki’s Requiem.
Codalario · Mario Guada · 2025-01-27 · Español →
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From 21 January to 1 February 2025, BCJ travelled to seven cities in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and Requiem in Masato Suzuki’s completion and revision. Masato and Masaaki Suzuki shared conducting duties in Spain. Explore the performances, photographs, reviews and tour films by tenor Shimon Yoshida.
Bach Collegium Japan →article
“his dazzling account of Bach’s virtuosic Italian Concerto for solo harpsichord”. An excerpt from The Scotsman, August 2019, reproduced by HarrisonParrott. The link leads to the management’s published review excerpts.
The Scotsman · 2019-08 · English · via HarrisonParrott →project
Founded in 2005 by Masato Suzuki and violinist Yukie Yamaguchi, Ensemble Genesis brings Baroque and contemporary music together on historical and modern instruments. Its projects include new commissions and collaborations with dance, film and lighting. Explore performances including Suites (2010), Euridice’s Lament (2011) and The Four Seasons (2017), alongside performance footage.
Ensemble Genesis →
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Carols arranged by Masato Suzuki and Daquin’s organ noëls performed by him. BCJ’s choir is conducted by Masaaki Suzuki.
BIS · BIS-2291 →
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Masaaki Suzuki, Masato Suzuki and BCJ, including Masato’s arrangement of Orchestral Suite No. 1.
BIS · BIS-2051 →
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Various Artists
℗ WFS →
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Nobuaki Fukukawa, Masato Suzuki & Mozart Consort Japan
℗ 2021 King Record Co.,Ltd. →
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Antoine Tamestit & Masato Suzuki
℗ 2019 harmonia mundi →
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LEO, Masato Suzuki & Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
℗ 2021 Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd./DENON →
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Mayuko Ishigami & Masato Suzuki
℗ 2022 Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd./NIPPONOPHONE →
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PIKOTARO
℗ 2023 AVEX ENTERTAINMENT INC. →
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Igor Ruhadze, Ensemble Violini Capricciosi, Daria Gorban, Mark Dupere, Nika Zlataric, Vaughan Schlepp & Masato Suzuki
℗ 2012 Brilliant Classics →
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Dominik Wörner & Masato Suzuki
℗ 2011 Ars Produktion →
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Swiss Orchestra, Masato Suzuki & Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer
℗ 2024 SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen →
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Masato Suzuki conducts the Kyudai Philharmonic Orchestra at ACROS Fukuoka on 16 September 2024, with soloists Eri Sawae, Naoko Fuse, Kohei Yamamoto and Hirotaka Kato.
九大フィルハーモニー・オーケストラ公式チャンネル →project
Towards a New World
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One Melody for All
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Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s 25th-anniversary concert project, directed by Masato Suzuki, who also conducted and played positive organ. Two performances on 1 November 2015 — Prayer, and Hope and Love — brought together choir, organ, dance, wind orchestra and Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie.
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre →project
The third production in Masato Suzuki’s BCJ Opera Series, presented in Hyogo, Tokyo and Kanagawa in October 2023. Conducted from the harpsichord by Masato Suzuki, with staging by Miharu Sato.
Japan Arts →
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Masato Suzuki’s BCJ Opera Series began in 2017, marking Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary, with Maki Mori, Rachel Nicholls and performances in Tokyo and Kanagawa.
Japan Arts / Bach Collegium Japan →
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The second production in Masato Suzuki’s BCJ Opera Series, staged by Mao Sunakawa in Kanagawa and Tokyo in 2020. Suzuki conducted from the harpsichord, with Daichi Fujiki as Rinaldo, Maki Mori as Almirena and Saki Nakae as Armida. Stage photographs and BCJ’s official performance film.
Japan Arts / Bach Collegium Japan →
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Tenor Shimon Yoshida shares his journey with BCJ. Spain.
Shimon Yoshida · YouTube →
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In 2009, Masato Suzuki co-directed this concert opera with Goro Tamura at the New National Theatre Tokyo. Masaaki Suzuki conducted BCJ, with Maki Mori and Rachel Nicholls.
新国立劇場 / New National Theatre Tokyo →
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Tenor Shimon Yoshida shares his journey with BCJ. Toulouse to Groningen.
Shimon Yoshida · YouTube →project
At Hakuju Hall in 2011, excerpts from Rameau’s opera-ballet met contemporary dance by Ikuyo Kuroda. Masato Suzuki conducted, directed and played harpsichord, with soprano Yukari Nonoshita and a Baroque ensemble.
Hakuju Hall →
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Tenor Shimon Yoshida shares his journey with BCJ. Düsseldorf to The Hague.
Shimon Yoshida · YouTube →project
A 2012 production in Mori Ogai’s Japanese translation, marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. Masato Suzuki conducted at Bunkyo Civic Hall, with direction by Kazuko Watanabe and the Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble.
文京アカデミー / Bunkyo Academy →project
A Mozart double bill at the 2018 Chofu International Music Festival. Masato Suzuki conducted BCJ in two comedies bringing singing and spoken theatre together.
調布国際音楽祭 / Chofu International Music Festival →project
At Chofu in 2019, Masato Suzuki both conducted and played the speaking role of Selim in Mozart’s three-act opera, directed by Satoshi Taoshita. The cast included Mari Moriya, Makoto Sakurada, Eri Sawae, Yosuke Taniguchi and Dominik Wörner.
森谷真理公式サイト / Mari Moriya →project
In GEN at Yokosuka Arts Theatre in 2020, Britten’s Curlew River was paired with the Noh play Sumidagawa. Masato Suzuki conducted and played organ in Tadashi Miroku’s staging, with Jun Suzuki, Kei Yonashiro, Tadahiro Sakashita and Hirotaka Kato.
横須賀芸術劇場 / Yokosuka Arts Theatre →project
Saki Nakae and Takaoki Onishi sang Menotti’s one-act opera at the 2021 Chofu International Music Festival, with Masato Suzuki conducting YNSO at Green Hall.
調布国際音楽祭 / Chofu International Music Festival →project
Toshiki Okada’s new staging of Yuzuru toured Japan. Masato Suzuki conducted the Kariya and Kumamoto performances in 2022, with Sara Kobayashi as Tsu and Takumi Yogi as Yohyo.
熊本県立劇場 / Kumamoto Prefectural Theatre →project
Masato Suzuki made his conducting debut at the New National Theatre Tokyo in 2022, leading the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in Saburo Teshigawara’s production combining opera and dance.
新国立劇場 / New National Theatre Tokyo →project
The first of Bunkamura’s three Mozart productions, staged in 2024 at Meguro Persimmon Hall. Masato Suzuki conducted BCJ, with art by Hiroshi Senju and direction by Leo Iizuka.
Bunkamura →
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Masato Suzuki introduces the 2020 production of Rinaldo.
Japan Arts →
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A concert performance at the 2025 Chofu International Music Festival, conducted by Masato Suzuki with BCJ, with Carine Tinney as Rodelinda and Daichi Fujiki as Bertarido.
調布国際音楽祭 / Chofu International Music Festival →project
The third of Bunkamura’s Mozart productions, presented in 2026 with stage design by Kengo Kuma, costumes by Keita Maruyama and direction by Leo Iizuka. Masato Suzuki conducted BCJ.
Bunkamura →
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Maki Mori sings Almirena’s aria, featured on the official Rinaldo production website.
Japan Arts →
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The world premiere at the 2026 Chofu International Music Festival. Masato Suzuki conducted BCJ in Atsuhiko Gondai’s two-act opera, with a libretto by Harue Tsutsumi and direction by Satoshi Taoshita.
調布国際音楽祭 / Chofu International Music Festival →