Armin Lohbeck

Lemgo

Armin Lohbeck was born in Lemgo (Germany) in 1967. He studied the cello at the Academy of Music in Detmold. After graduating, he spent 6 years in Japan, where he was a member of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and various baroque ensembles. During his years in Japan he took a great interest in Japanese music and started learning the shakuhachi, taught by Reiko Yokota. On returning to Germany, he studied the baroque cello and viola da gamba with Rainer Zipperling at the Academy of Music in Cologne, and visited master classes by Anner Bylsma. During this time, he also studied the honkyoku music in the Itchoken tradition with the shakuhachi master Ikkei Hanada. Armin Lohbeck was a member of the Deutsche Bachsolisten from 1993 to 2000 and with the Musica Antiqua Köln from 2005 until it was disbanded. He has played a wide variety of music on the cello and the shakuhachi in various European countries. As a professional cellist, he performs with many renowned ensembles such as the Salzburg Barock, Dresdner Barockorchester and Concerto Farinelli, and is best known for his interpretation of the works of J.S. Bach. He has contributed significantly to the spreading of shakuhachi music of the Kinko tradition, the tradition that he continues to study in Sweden and Japan with Jinmei Linder and Ryûmei Matsuyama of the Chikumeisha branch. In 2012 he played the shakuhachi as a soloist during the World Shakuhachi Festival in Kyoto. He regularly performs on his shakuhachi in Germany and Japan.

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