Atsushi Sakai

Cellist Atsushi Sakai is equally adept in Baroque music, contemporary music, and jazz. He has founded two historically oriented ensembles of his own. Sakai was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1975. Sakai took cello lessons beginning when he was five years old, continuing after his family moved to the U.S. In 1987, he appeared with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the following year, he began a recital career that has continued regularly ever since in Japan, the U.S., and Europe. In his solo recitals, he has often appeared with Christophe Rousset and Marion Martineau, appearing in...