Masato Suzuki is happy to announce that he will join HarrisonParrott for General Management. Conductor, harpsichordist, organist and composer, Masato is Principle Conductor of the Bach Collegium Japan and Executive Producer of Chofu Music Festival, Associate Conductor and Creative Partner of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Ensemble Genesis.

Masato regularly conducts the most important orchestras in Japan including NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Ensemble Kanazawa. His international engagements include Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of Ancient Music, amongst others.

He has enjoyed 3 years of fruitful partnership and professional growth with Hazard Chase with James Brown and Roderick Thomson.

Masato Suzuki comments: “I’m deeply grateful for the fruitful years with Roderick Thomson and Hazard Chase. Jasper has been a good friend and advisor to me for many years, and I am confident that this is the right moment to start working together. With this new collaboration, I hope to expand my musical activity into a more creative and dynamic level. Even under the most challenging times for the whole music industry, I remain positive about the future and am actively working to find new scope to communicate with music online

Jasper Parrott comments “It is an honour and privilege to start on this new adventure with Masaaki and Masato Suzuki and the outstanding Bach Collegium Japan, a great musical treasure which I have admired so very much over many years and almost countless trips to Japan. We are glad to be able to give continuity to the devoted and successful work of Roderick Thompson and James Brown and we look forward to our future together with faith, hope and much excitement.”

Please direct all enquiries to Jasper Parrott and Federico Hernandez.

Setting up their own agency in 1969, Jasper Parrott and Terry Harrison pioneered a new approach to management – one that was intensively pro-active, international, and centered around the needs and aspirations of the artists. Today, that restless and challenging spirit is as strong as ever, shared across one of the most experienced teams in the business.

With great pleasure, Masaaki Suzuki announces that he will join HarrisonParrott for General Management. Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has established himself as a leading authority on the works of Bach.

Considered also to be an outstanding expert on baroque and classical choral repertoire, he regularly conducts orchestras such as Bavarian Radio, Danish National Radio, Gothenburg Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, San Francisco Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras.

Present and future highlights include performances with NHK Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, and Sydney Symphony orchestras amongst others.

Masaaki has enjoyed 9 years of fruitful partnership and professional growth with Hazard Chase with James Brown and Roderick Thompson. Masaaki writes, “I am so grateful for Roderick Thomson and Hazard Chase Team for our long-term collaboration, although the terrible pandemic forced us all to change the life. In any situation, we never stop bringing wonderful music to the audience, and devoting ourselves to it. So I am immensely excited now to start working with Jasper Parrot and his team.”

Jasper Parrott comments “It is an honour and privilege to start on this new adventure with Masaaki and Masato Suzuki and the outstanding Bach Collegium Japan, a great musical treasure which I have admired so very much over many years and almost countless trips to Japan. We are glad to be able to give continuity to the devoted and successful work of Roderick Thompson and James Brown and we look forward to our future together with faith, hope and much excitement.”

Please direct all enquiries to Jasper Parrott and Federico Hernandez.

Setting up their own agency in 1969, Jasper Parrott and Terry Harrison pioneered a new approach to management – one that was intensively pro-active, international, and centered around the needs and aspirations of the artists. Today, that restless and challenging spirit is as strong as ever, shared across one of the most experienced teams in the business.

Dear Bach lovers

The cancellation of many BCJ concerts including 8 concerts (out of 11 concerts originally planned for BCJ’s European Tour in March) due to Covid-19 is financially put us in a very difficult situation. If you can, please consider making a donation to support us.

Bach Collegium Japan Donation Bank Account

For a tax deductible donation in the USA, please visit the website of
American Friends of BCJ (501(c)(3) organization)
https://afbcj.org/donation/

Thank you so much for your support in advance.