Mayumi Hirasaki, specialist in scordatura, presents this new album of works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Mayumi Hirasaki was born in Japan and initially studied...

Mayumi Hirasaki, specialist in scordatura, presents this new album of works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Mayumi Hirasaki was born in Japan and initially studied modern violin at the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music. She then continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Nuremberg-Augusburg under Prof. Daniel Gaede and specialized in Baroque violin under Prof. Mary Utiger at the Hochschule für Music and Theater Munich. Further study programs followed under Prof. Giuliano Carmignola in Lucerne and under Prof. Christine Schornsheim in Munich, where the harpsichord was her field concentration. She taught Baroque violin and Baroque viola at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen from the winter term 2009 till 2018 and has held a professorship in Barock violin and viola at the University Mozarteum Salzburg since October 2017.