Masaaki Suzuki enjoys worldwide fame as a Bach specialist. He was born in Kobe, the city known as the center of church music in Japan. After his music studies in Tokyo, he went to the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Suzuki belongs to the 1% Christians in Japan. He is part of the Shinko-Kyokai, the Reformed Church, who believes everything is destined. For the protestant Suzuki, conducting Bach's music was not a choice but his fate.