Rintaro Wada

Instructor of Cello

E-mail: music@houghton.edu
Phone: 585.567.9400

Rintaro Wada received the BM from the Showa College of Music and the MM from the Eastman School of Music.

Mr. Wada hails from Tokyo, Japan. He has studied cello performance with Ryoich Hayashi, Hiromi Uekusa, Joich Sano, Hirofumi Kanno, Stefan Reuss, Marcy Rosen, Steven Doane, and Alan Harris. He studied chamber music with Richard Killmer, Paul O'Dette, Christel Thielmann, Margery Hwang, John Graham, and with the Amadeus String Quartet, Bartok String Quartet, Mendelssohn String Quartet, Ying Quartet, and Fine Arts String Quartet.

Mr. Wada's performance experience is broad, from 16th century Renaissance music through contemporary music including numerous premieres. His performances were given in Japan, Italy, and the US. He has performed as the principal cellist of the Southern Tier Symphony (2003 ~2007) and as the third chair cellist of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra since 2002. Mr. Wada is the Music Director of the Chamber Music Society of Olean. Mr. and Mrs. Wada (pianist) founded the "Chamber Music Concert Series" to ignite the chamber music scenes of the Southern Tier New York area, and have given over thirty five concerts in Twin Tiers and western New York. Their cello and piano ensemble, "Duo Wada" (summer and fall, 2004), and a piano trio with the violinist, Lin He (fall, 2006), were broadcast by WPSU FM radio station. Performance commitment includes the Jamestown Concert Association in 2009.

Mr. Wada is the orchestra director of the Olean High School, string instructor of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, St. Bonaventure University, and cello instructor of Alfled University and Greatbatch School of Music at Houghton College.