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Bar & Lounge "Magdalena"
Recommended people
For one person or friends
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No reservation required
1,540Yen
Hotel GrandBach Tokyo Ginza will celebrate its first anniversary in November. The theme of the new "Bach Cocktail - Glenn Gould Version" to commemorate the opening is "the fusion of sensibility and logic." One is an "sensibility" cocktail inspired by Masaaki Suzuki, the "leading authority on Bach performance," and the other is a "logical" cocktail by Yasushi Tanaka, a classical sommelier who is also known as a researcher of GG. Below we introduce the two people who supervised the cocktails.
*GG…Glenn Gould
■ Cocktail name: GB 2022～Rise～
Masaaki Suzuki, Music Director of the Bach Collegium Japan
Since founding the Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) in 1990, he has gained a reputation as a leading performer of Bach. He has led his group to perform at major halls and music festivals in Europe and the United States, and has earned extremely high praise for his eloquent, transparent sound and performance approach that gets to the essence. He studied composition and organ at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He founded the Department of Early Music at the Tokyo University of the Arts and taught there for 2010 years until 20. He has received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001, the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 23, and other awards. In 2012, he received the Bach Medal from the City of Leipzig, Germany, for his contributions to international Bach performance, and the Bach Prize from the Royal Academy of Music in London. He received the Suntory Music Prize in 2013 together with the Bach Collegium Japan. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Reformed Theology in the Netherlands. He also received the Gutenberg Education Award from the University of Mainz in Germany.
■ Cocktail name: GG 1957～Reviver～
▼ Classic Sommelier Yasushi Tanaka
Born in Yokosuka in 1957. Since joining Pia in 1988, he has been in charge of the classical genre. In 2008, he founded Sputnik and became independent. He is working to popularize classical music among the general public through his work as the host of J-WAVE's Morning Classic, the editor of JAL's In-Flight Classic Channel, serializing the weekly Toyo Keizai magazine's The Latest in Classical Music, and overseeing the classical genre for the Pia app. He is also the representative director of the Japan Classical Sommelier Association.
▼ Head Bartender | Tsukasa Takahashi (From Hotel GrandBach Tokyo Ginza
In 2014, it won first place in Japan at the Nikka Whisky Forum Cocktail Competition, and has since won numerous awards at competitions hosted by the Japan Bartenders Association.
He was also selected as a Japan Finalist at the 2018 Hennessy Cocktail Competition and as a finalist in the Japan Final at the Ron Sakapalam Competition.
Since 2021, he has been working as head bartender at Hotel GrandBach Tokyo Ginza.