Songs of Solitude: violinist Hiyoli Togawa’s new album draws on Covid isolation

In this video we meet up with Berlin-based violist Hiyoli Togawa, whose new album ‘Songs of Solitude’, aims to capture the global isolation created by the coronavirus pandemic.

The work features commissioned solos for viola by 11 composers – among them Toshio Hosokawa, Tigran Mansurian and Kalevi Aho – and combines the scores with the six sarabandes of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites.

Her Australian and Japanese roots aside, Togawa grew up in the Rhineland, studying with Rainer Moog at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, and later with Antoine Tamestit and Hariolf Schlichtig in Munich.

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