Masanori Ikeda

Tamayo Ikeda was born in Japan in 1971, and began playing piano aged three. She joined the Toho Gakuen institute 1986 and to completed her studies in France at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier and chamber music with Régis Pasquier. She was awarded two first prizes before joining the class of Pascal Devoyon.

Six Divertimenti Hob.IV:6-11, a chamber music masterpiece by F.J.Haydn, is performed by three musicians who are also active in leading orchestras in the field of early music, such as Bach Collegium Japan and Orchestra Libera Classica. The work packs the compositional techniques and originality developed in the service of the Esterházy family into small chamber pieces, including the popular flute. This is a masterful performance that greatly enhances the appeal of this collection of pieces, which would have delighted even the most discerning connoisseurs of the time.

Masanori Sasaji is a Japanese fusion and jazz musician (piano, keyboard, Hammond organ, synthesizer, arrangement) and film composer. Masanori Sasaji worked in the 1980s with Osamu Kawakami, with the first recordings made in 1978 (Jumup for Joy, with Noriko Miyamoto, Kazumasa Akiyama, Yasuaki Shimizu, Eri Ohno, Takeru Muraoka), also in the band Jazz (including Hideo Yamaki, Motohiko Hamase, Yasuaki Shimizu), with Kazumi Watanabe's Kazumi Band and in the Trios Press Rider (with Takayuki Hijikata, Norio Sakai) and Mountain Tune (with Takayoshi Umeno).