Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (Cello)

Born: Japan

The Japanese cellist, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann, gained her performance diploma on the modern cello at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo (Diploma 1994). She then specialised in historical performance on the violoncello and viola da gamba at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, graduating with a soloist diploma in 2000. She was a prize-winner at the first ‘Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco’ (Brescia, Italy; chairman Gustav Leonhardt) in 1995 and the first cellist to win the soloist prize at the Concours Musica Antiqua Brugge (Belgium) in 1996.

Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is active as a soloist and as a member of leading early music groups worldwide, participating in tours, festivals, opera productions and recordings with La Petite Bande (Director: Sigiswald Kuijken) (Belgium); Bach Collegium Japan (Director: Masaaki Suzuki); Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Director: Jeanne Lamon) (Canada); Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell), The Bach Ensemble (Director: Joshua Rifkin) and Seattle Baroque Orchestra (USA); Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (Australia); Concerto Copenhagen (Director: Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices (Denmark); and Barokksolistene and Barokkanerne (Norway).

Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann also gives master-classes and coaches orchestras at festivals around the world. She currently lives in Sweden, where she is a member of the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and teaches the baroque cello at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Source: Thore Brinkmann (October 2019)
Photos 0679, 5785, 5786, 5788, 5790: Mats Bäcker; Photos 1217, 1221, 1234, 1241: Reinhard Wilting
Contributed by Thore Brinkmann (October 2019)

Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann: Short Biography | Bach Discography: Recordings of Instrumental Works

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Luís Otávio Santos

Cello

Member of Orquestra Barroca do Festival:
[C-1] (2003): BWV 97
[V-1] (2002): BWV 243; Orchestral Suite No. 3 BWV 1068

Masaaki Suzuki

Cello

Member of Bach Collegium Japan:
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9 (1998): BWV 24, BWV 76, BWV 167
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 10 (1999): BWV 105, BWV 179, BWV 186
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 16 (2000): BWV 194
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 18 (2001): BWV 66, BWV 134, BWV 67
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 19 (2001): BWV 86, BWV 37, BWV 104, BWV 166
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 21 (2002): BWV 65, BWV 81, BWV 83, BWV 190
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 22 (2002): BWV 7, BWV 20, BWV 94
Sacred Cantatas Vol. 23 (2002): BWV 10, BWV 93, BWV 107, BWV 178
[V-4] (1999): BWV 244

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