Kisaragi Chihaya (cv. Imai Asami) | en

Nobuko Imai (今井 信子 Imai Nobuko, born March 18, 1943 in Tokyo), is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she plays an Andrea Guarneri of 1690. Imai began her training at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and soon after went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1967 and won highest prize at both the Geneva International Music Competition and ARD International Music Competition at Munich. She has worked in chamber music projects with...

Somewhere in the mid 90's a rather huge buzz was created on the massively popular music site MP3.com regarding a new, mysterious artist who had appeared on the site. This artist was uploading some very compelling yet confronting pieces of music. The diversity this new artist displayed covered a wide range, everything from jazz, hip hop, dance, and pop to avant-garde, classical and abstract sound-design. Never losing sight of his well honed yet highly unique sound. Other than the name Chukimai and a photo shown of a mysterious Japanese lady, nothing was known about who the originator of these joyous...