Danjulo Ishizaka

Danjulo Ishizaka (born May 14, 1979 in Bonn, Germany) is a German Cellist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

Ishizaka, born in Bonn, Germany, is the son of the German piano teacher Ruth Nathrath and Japanese immigrant Junkichi Ishizaka. His sister is the pianist Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka. He began taking cello lessons at the age of 4. He was a student of Boris Pergamenschikow in Berlin from 1998 until Pergamenschikow's death in 2004, at which point he completed his studies with Tabea Zimmermann.

Danjulo Ishizaka has been a soloist with many orchestras, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, all 5 BBC Orchestras, the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under directors including Gerd Albrecht, Andrew Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Michail and Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Roger Norrington, Mstislaw Rostropovich and Leonard Slatkin. He has further performed with artists including Gidon Kremer, Lisa Batiashvili, Viviane Hagner, Tabea Zimmermann, Julia Fischer, Baiba Skride, Antje Weithaas, Veronika Eberle, Martin Helmchen and Ray Chen. His international debut took place with the Vienna Symphony in the Wiener Musikverein under direction of Krzysztof Penderecki. The cellist Mstislaw Rostropovich described Danjulo Ishizaka's artistry with the words: "phenomenal in his technical abilities, perfect in his power of interpretation."

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