March 21, 2026
Lessons and Lectures — A New Beginning_ Exploring Contemporary Classical Music in Greater Depth
<p>🎻 Teaching Pagehttps://www.junyamakino.com/teaching▼ About this videoIn this video, I speak about:• The content and focus of the lessons and lectures• The background and motivation behind launching the Teaching page• Different ways performers, composers, and listeners can approach contemporary music▼ Lessons & LecturesLessons for performers and composers focusing on contemporary violin repertoire.Through score reading, performance techniques, notation, and interpretation, we explore:How music is performed.How musical ideas can be written and communicated through notation.Lectures examine contemporary works within the broader context of 20th–21st century Western and Japanese music history, offering insights into the background, structure, and artistic thinking behind each work.▼ Recommended for• Musicians who would like to begin working seriously with contemporary music• Performers and composers seeking a deeper understanding of repertoire they already engage with• Anyone interested in the relationship between compositional thinking and performance practice#contemporaryclassicalmusic #lecture #lesson #contemporarymusic #violin[ Website ]https://www.junyamakino.com/[ Instagram ]https://www.instagram.com/junyamakino_vn/[ Radio (EN) ]https://open.spotify.com/show/6IQRtZQXCQ3zGCLprvwD8Y[ Blog (EN) ]https://medium.com/@junya.makino.1110Junya Makino :He studied under Yasuo Mito and Machia Saito at the Tokyo College of Music, under Anke Schittenhelm at the University of the Arts in Graz, Austria and under Rainer Schmidt (Hagen String Quartet) at the Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland.He also studied Contemporary Music under Mike Svoboda, Jürg Henneberger and Marcus Weiss at the Music Academy in Basel. He learnt contemporary music (violin) under Irvine Arditti, Lucas Fels, Ilya Gringolts, Jagdish Mistry (Ensemble Modern), Giorgos Panagiotidis (Ensemble Modern), Melise Mellinger (Ensemble recherché) and Hannah Weirich (Ensemble Musikfabrik).He has participated in international competitions, including the 4th International Jascha Heifetz Competition in Lithuania.He has also taken master classes with Saschko Gawriloff, Liana Isakadze, Boris Belkin, Eberhard Feltz, Christos Polyzoides, Demetrius Polyzoides and Sylvia-Elisabeth Viertel, among others.Junya is an year 2014/2015’s member of Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie in Frankfurt, Germany - famous ensemble, which exist since 1980, and is performing music of contemporary European composers. During 2014-2015, being a violinist of ensemble’s academy, he played big amount of pieces around all Europe in many festivals, such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht, Biennale für Moderne Musik Frankfurt Rhein Main, KulturTagJahr, two weeks of concerts in Paris on MANIFESTE Akademie IRCAM, Dessau, Witten Neue Musik Tage, Achtbrücken Musik Festival Köln, Ruhrtriiiennale and cresc Festival in Frankfurt.He worked with such musicians as Heinz Holliger, Beat Furrer, Michael Jarrell, George Aperghis, Ingo Metzmacher, Emilio Pomarico, Lucas Vis, Michael Quell, Bennewitz Quartet and Apollon Quartet, among others.In July 2014, he was invited as a soloist playing Vivaldi Four Seasons with the Parnas String Quintet (members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) at the Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall.In September 2016, as a soloist he premiered (in Ukraine) Ligeti Violin Concerto in Kiev with Armonia Rudus.Beside his principal activity as a performer, he organizes contemporary music festivals.In December 2015, he was founding the contemporary music festival "Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (KCMD)” in Kiev, Ukraine with his colleagues as a vice president and up to now, the festival provides more than 150 events.In April 2019, he founded the contemporary music festival "Mishima Contemporary Music Days (MCMD)” in his home town Mishima, Japan.</p>
