Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is an accomplished virtuoso of the cello and the viola da gamba. She received her diploma in cello performance from Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music, and earned her soloist diploma at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as a specialist in historically informed performance practices. She won prizes at the Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini in Brescia in 1995 and the Concours International Musica Antiqua in Bruges in 1996. Brinkmann appears with several prominent early music ensembles, such as the Bach Collegium Japan, La Petite Bande, Concerto Copenhagen, Apollo's Fire, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Barokksolistene, and the Theatre of Voices, and she has performed with them on many recordings. In 2016, Brinkmann released an album of 17th and 18th century cello music, Cello Rising -- featuring works by Domenico Galli, Giovanni Battiste Degli Antonii, Domenico Gabrieli, Georg Philipp Telemann, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and Luigi Boccherini -- where she performed with harpsichordist Björn Gäfvert and Baroque guitarist Karl Nyhlin. Brinkmann teaches at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and she performs with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and the Drottningholm Slottsteater. She has recorded for the Swedish label BIS. ~ Blair Sanderson