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Nakamura Emi

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A collection of masterpieces by William Byrd, the father of British music. Emi Nakamura was born in Tokyo, Japan, and began playing the harpsichord at the age of 11. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan High School of Arts, she went to France to study. She graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with a degree in harpsichord. She says that she feels nostalgia for Byrd's music even though it was composed in England 400 years ago, and she has expanded her ideas from a series of pieces to "something in common with traditional Japanese music. The second half of the piece finally breaks out of the original framework and creates a mysterious sound world that others could not even imagine. (C)RS