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Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Japanese classical cellist, living in Sweden, born on 19 June 1969. After graduating from Toho Gakuen University of Music in Tokyo, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann specialized in historical performance with cello and viola da gamba at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she completed her studies with a soloist diploma. She is a prize winner at the first "Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco" (Brescia, Italy, 1995; President: Gustav Leonhardt) and in 1996 she was the first to win the soloist prize with cello at the "Concours Musica" Antiqua Brugge" (Belgium) . Since then she has regularly performed as a soloist and member of the world's leading early music ensembles, participating in tours, festivals, opera productions and recordings with La Petite Bande (Belgium), Bach Collegium Japan, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Canada), Apollo's Fire, Joshua Rifkin & The Bach Ensemble and Seattle Baroque (USA), Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Concerto Copenhagen and Paul Hillier's Theater of Voices (Denmark), as well as Barokksolistene and Barokkanerne (Norway). Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann gives master classes around the world and supports orchestras at festivals in rehearsing their concert programs. She lives in Sweden, where she is a member of [a950550] and teaches baroque cello at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm.