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Duo Wada, an active and skilled husband and wife duo from the Olean, NY area, consists of Rintaro Wada on cello and his wife, Ritsuko, on piano.
In addition to playing regional concerts, the Wadas formed the Chamber Music Concert series in 2001. The series features Duo Wada and musicians from the southern New York tier towns of Olean, Wellsville, Bath and Bolivar. They see the concert series as a way to ignite the classical music scene in the region.
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After
receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree and post-graduate diploma in cello performance
from Showa College of Music in Japan, Rintaro Wada then received a Master
of Music in performance and literature from Eastman School of Music. He has performed
as a soloist, as well as in chamber groups and orchestras in Japan, Italy and
the United States, playing music from 16th century Renaissance to the contemporary.
He currently performs as a principal cellist of the Southern Tier Symphony Orchestra
and as third chair cellist of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. He is currently
an orchestra teacher in the Bolivar-Richburg Central Schools in New York as well
as a cello and chamber music instructor at Houghton College.
Ritsuko
Wada holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Showa College
of Music, where she was a merit scholarship student studying with Japan's leading
teacher, Takahiro Sonoda. She also studied in Italy and Germany, and began her
teaching career in 1991 at the Yamaha School of Music. She has performed as a
piano accompanist for the Tokyo City Ballet Junior Program and for several choirs
in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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