Kazumasa Kazumasa Watanabe is a well-known conductor, born in Tokyo, he performed Haydn's Piano Concerto in D with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 8. He took first place in the elementary and middle school piano division of the Japan National Student Music Competition both in 1978 and 1980. In 1987 he went to Europe to take a piano master class at the Darmstadt Music Academy under Hans Leigraf.
He made his conducting debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1991. He became a student conductor of that orchestra in 1992, its assistant conductor in 1994 and conductor in 1996. In 1995 he also became Permanent Conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.
Kazumasa Watanabe has won acclaim for performances of Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto and works by Ravel, Mozart and Gershwin. He conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra for the first time in 1998 and he will conduct the subscription concerts of the orchestra in June 2006.
Kaori Muraji is a Japanese classical guitarist. She is the first Japanese artist to have signed an exclusive international contract with Decca Music Group.
Keiko Mitsuhashi (Mitsubishi Keiko, April 15, 1980 -) is a female conductor in Japan. She belongs to KAJIMOTO.
She was born from Sando-cho, Koto Ward, Tokyo. Learn piano - composition - solfege from Yamaha music school from the age of 5. When she was a junior high school student, she led the charm of conducting a choir as a conductor as a conductor, and she started studying conducting seriously from the age of 16.
She graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, undergraduate course, and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Studied in the Austrian -Vienna State College of Music as a special scholar as Italian - Chizziana Conservatory, Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship. Masamitsu Takaoka, Seiji Ozawa, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Koichiro Matsuo, Kotaro Matsuo, Kotaro Sato at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Kotaro Sato, studied at the Keiziana Conservatoire by Genre Is Giermetti, Vienna State College of Music, Yuasa Yuji, Mark Stringer and others.
She is the youngest ever youngest female conductor in the 10th Antonio Pedrotti International Conductor Competition (2008), the first to be the female conductor, the audience award, and the trio winner of the Antonio Pedrotti Association Award.
She won the second prize and the audience award for the first time as a female conductor in the Arturo Toscanini International Conductor Competition (2010). Ozawa Seiji Music School, Saito · Kinen - Festival served as an assistant to Ozawa in Matsumoto, and in 2011 the Ozawa Seiji Music School Special Concert served as a commander substitute for Ozawa who took off descent due to low back pain. Currently living and working in Milan is based in Venice.
In 2009, Newsweek Japan magazine was elected as "the 100 people Japanese respected by the world", and was also featured in 2011 "TBS affiliated MBS documentary program" Passion Continent ".
She has a wide range of performances ranging from classical music to contemporary music and has a wide range of performances from Milan / Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Tuscany Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Sofia Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Kyoto City Symphony Orchestra, Japan Century Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Hyogo Art and Cultural Center Co-star with orchestra such as Orchestra, Orchestra · Ensemble Kanazawa, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra.
After graduating from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Yasuko Otani went on to complete the doctoral course at that university’s graduate school. She took first place in the All-Japan Student Music Concours, and second place in the Henryk Szeryng Japan Visit Commemorative Competition.
In 1988 Otani attracted a great deal of attention when she became the first female violinist in Japan ever to perform three violin concertos in one evening (Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, and Lalo).
In the spring of 1990, Otani performed recitals in four European cities (Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Cologne) to great acclaim. In addition to recital and concert activities abroad, she gives recitals throughout Japan. She also performs with many orchestras, including the Slovakia Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Tokyo City Philharmonic, the Sapporo and Kyushu Symphony Orchestras, and the Nagoya, Osaka, and Kansai Philharmonic Orchestras.
Otani performs with numerous orchestras overseas as well, and she appears regularly in a variety of media including television (“Untitled Concert”). Her ambitious work in the fields of chamber and contemporary music has earned her a wide fan base. In addition, she has been very active in presenting concerts in hospitals and other facilities on a volunteer basis.
After serving as concert master of the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Otani was appointed concert master of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, where she currently holds the position of solo concert master. Her solo recital at Suntory Hall (Main Hall) in 1999 was widely acclaimed.
In 2005, Otani formed the string quartet Quattro Piaceri, whose high-quality performances have attracted much attention. On September 20, 2008, Otani once again gave a solo recital at Suntory Hall (Main Hall), which drew a full house and was highly praised.
Otani has been teaching the next generation as an instructor at the high school affiliated with Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, and she is currently a professor at the Tokyo College of Music.
Her CDs, released on Sony and other labels, include “Fantaisie La Traviata” and “After the Dream.” June 2008 saw the release of “Yasuko Plays Chaconne,” which has been very well received.
Ryoma Takagi was born at Chiba City in Japan at 13, November 1992.
He got first elementary education of absolute pitch and the others musical training from his mother from when he was 2 years old, and he was started to study piano performing at 5 years old.
On account of that he was excellence in the music classroom which his parents manages, he was taking lesson in real earnest from Professor Elena Ashkenazy of the former teacher of his mother from 7 years old up to the present.
The first prize winner in 2000 at "Chiba Music Competition" under 7 years category, and in 2001 at "Japan TCHAIKOVSKY Competition" under 11 years category. The second place in 2002 at "A.D.ARTOBOLEVSKAYA Open Moscow for the young pianists" under 10 years category.
In August 2003, he participated in "Summer Music Festival at Burg Feistritz" in Austria. Schumann "Abegg-Variation" which was played here got the highest praise from Professor Ilya Grubert who is violin performing artist and professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory and first prize winner of the PAGANINI and the TCHAIKOVSKY Competitions (1978).
In November 2003 he got first prize winner at "G. NEUHAUS Festival of Young Pianists in Moscow" junior category (under 12 years). In this time he was invited concert by Professor Albert Tarakanov and Professor Valery Voskoboynikov who were the jury of this Competition.
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese conductor and composer. Born in Iwaki, Fukushima, Kobayashi's father was a high school music teacher, and mother was a primary school teacher. Kobayashi started composing music at the age of 11, studied composition and conducting under Mareo Ishiketa (composition), Kazuo Yamada (conducting), and Akeo Watanabe (conducting) at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Kobayashi won the 1st prize and the special award at the International Conductors Competition on Hungarian television in 1974. He has led orchestras in Germany, Austria, Britain, and Netherlands. Kobayashi has been resident conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Kyoto Symphony Orchestra. Kobayashi was appointed to the principal conductor of Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (1988–90), chief conductor (1990–94, 1997–2004), music director (2004–07) and conductor laureate since 2010.
Kobayashi served the principal guest conductor of the Kansai and Kyushu orchestras. He was general music director of Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra from 1998 to 2001, music director from 2001 to 2003, is now appointed to the conductor laureate since 2003. Kobayashi was appointed to the special guest conductor of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in August 2011, appointed to the music director of Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in June 2012.
In Europe, Kobayashi served the principal conductor of Hungarian State Symphony (now Hungarian National Philharmonic) from 1987-97, and is now conductor laureate of the orchestra. Kobayashi was the first Asian conductor who had conducted Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring International Music Festival in 2002. He has held the regular guest conductorship with Czech Philharmonic. He was one of three conductors who primarily led the orchestra after the resignation of Gerd Albrecht from the chief conductorship orchestra in 1996 and before advent of Vladimir Ashkenazy in 1998.
In 2006, he became vaste dirigent ('permanent conductor') of Het Gelders Orkest of Arnhem, Netherlands. He is a former music professor of Tokyo University of the Arts(now holds the emeritus professorship), the emeritus professor of Tokyo College of Music and Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
Junichi Hirokami (広上 淳一 , Hirokami Jun'ichi, born May 5, 1958) is a Japanese conductor.
Born in Tokyo, Hirokami studied conducting, piano, musicology, and viola at the Tokyo College of Music. He won the first Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in September 1984 at age 26. One of the judges of that competition, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, then engaged Hirokami to conduct the NHK Symphony Orchestra on a tour of Japan with Ashkenazy in May 1985.
From April 2013, he became a visiting professor at Kyoto City Arts University.
In November 2016, he was awarded the 36th Arima Award for contributing to raising the voice of the NHK Symphony Orchestra with a great collaboration with excellent musicality and unique strong performances .
From April 2017, he became the Friendship Guest Conductor of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra .
Ikuyo Nakamichi, who made her debut in Japan and Europe in 1987, is one of the most outstanding and sought-after pianists in Japan.
Nakamichi has given many recitals in Japan, including the series of five concerts titled “Ikuyo Nakamichi’s New World” in 1992; the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms series held over a five-year period from 1994 at Casals Hall in Tokyo; and the “Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas,” held over a four-year period from 1997 at Philia Hall in Yokohama and at Kobe Gakuin University. Each of these series has earned Nakamichi high praise for her earnest attitude towards the works and for her superior musicality. She has also earned acclaim for her concerts at Suntory Hall, which have become an annual tradition.
She has also earned high praise for her Mozart and Chopin projects. Her concert series of Complete Mozart Piano Sonatas received widespread attention. Her CDs “Complete Mozart Sonatas” were selected as specially recommended recordings in the November 2013 issue of “Record Arts,” and praised as “the definitive recordings of Mozart performed on the contemporary piano.” Chopin is a composer whose works Nakamichi has always engaged with. In particular, her project “Chopin Keyboard Mysteries,” depicting the composer’s life through images and stories, has won favorable recognition.
A socially conscious musician, Nakamichi serves as the Music Director and Supervisor of a forum held cooperatively with concert halls across the country, “The future that music opens”; and in March 2018 she presented the “1st Ikuyo Nakamichi Piano Festival” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
Since 2003, with the aim of activating regional communities and expanding musical culture, Nakamichi has been working in her roles as special instructor at Osaka College of Music and director of the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities. Since 2012 she has also been active as a professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music(Toho Gakuen College Music Department）.
Masahiko Enkoji (Masahiko Enzo, September 16, 1954 -) is a conductor in Japan, born in Tokyo in 1954. At Toho Gakuen University, he studied conducting under Hideo Saito and piano under Aiko Iguchi.
In 1980, he studied abroad at National Music College in Vienna under Otmar Suitner.
Following his return to Japan in September of 1981,he received an appointment as assistant conductor with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1986 he began conducting exclusively for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, becoming their conductor in 1989.
In February of 1992, he guest conducted the Prague Symphony Orchestra at Smetana Hall, winning great critical acclaim. In April of 1995, as the result of an invitation from Dimitri Kitajenko, he appeared as guest conductor with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra impressing many with deep artistic emotion.
Today, as a conductor of international caliber, he represents a great talent of whom the greatest hopes are being entertained.
Yamazaki Nobuko born in 1956 is a cello player from Hiroshima and graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo.
While still a student, she was awarded the first prizes of both Min-on Chamber Music Competition and the Cello Section of the 44th Japan Music competition. After having graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, she furthered her studies with Pierre Fournier in Geneva for two years with an Overseas Scholarship funded by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Upon her return to Japan, Ms Yamazaki embarked on a highly successful career, giving many recitals and chamber music performances. Besides regular engagements with every leading orchestra in Japan, she has been invited by renowned European orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and played with the English Chamber Orchestra in the prestigious opening series for Suntory Hall.
Ms Yamazaki is a member of the Saitama Arts Quartet, which is currently performing a cycle of the complete Beethoven String Quartets. She is Professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Ryusuke Numajiri (Ryusuke Numajiri, 1964 ) is a Japanese conductor, pianist, composer.
Ryusuke Numajiri divides most of his time between Germany, where he has been musical director of the Theater Lubeck since September 2013, and Japan, where he is both head of the Tokyo Mitaka Philharmonia (formerly Tokyo Mozart Players) and artistic director of the Biwako Hall in Otsu.
In 1990, Numajiri was propelled to the forefront of the international conducting spotlight by winning First Prize in the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors. This victory resulted in invitations to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Sydney Symphony, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar and Darmstadt, China Philharmonic Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra. Other recent major highlights include engagements with the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa , the Orchestra Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste; and a production of Madame Butterfly at the Opera Australia, acclaimed by the press as being "great, from beginning to end, […] a world class production" (Bachtrack).
A strong advocate of contemporary music, Ryusuke Namjiri recorded in 1999 The Canticle of the Sun by Sofia Gubaidulina with EMI, featuring Mstislav Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra. He also directed the Japanese premieres of several major contemporary works including Philip Glass' Peace Symphony, Busoni's Concerto for Piano and Doktor Faustus, Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg and Schoenberg's Notturno. Other notable mentions include works by Messiaen, Andriessen, Gecki, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Berio, Dutilleux, Xenakis, Birtwistle, Matthews and Rottand Ichiro Nodaira. Finally, in 2006 he led the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester of Berlin for a concert commemorating Tōru Takemitsu, who died ten years earlier.
Since his opera debut, Mozart's Il Seraglio, in 1997, Ryusuke Numajiri has been invited to conduct at the New National Theatre Tokyo (The Marriage of Figaro, Tosca, Carmen), the Cologne Opera (Krenek's Johnny spielt auf), Komische Oper Berlin (Mozart's Don Giovanni), and Theater Basel (Cosi fan tutte). In 2014, Ryusuke composed his own opera Bamboo Princess, taking inspiration from an old Japanese folk tale, with performances in Japan and Vietnam.
Down to his eclectic taste and curiosity, Ryusuke Numajiri's discography includes a wide variety of composers such as; Gubaidulina (EMI), Takemitsu (3 CDs Denon); Messiaen, Mahler and Mendelssohn (Century Orchestra); and Beethoven (Tokyo Mitaka Philharmonia.)
January 2016
Born in Verona in 1987, Andrea Battistoni is one of the rising young talent in the international music scene.
He began, in 2006, a surprising career conducting in important theatres, with the respective orchestra, as the Bayerische staatsoper (Munich), Deutsche Oper of Berlin, Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, etc,.
In January 2011 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor at the Teatro Regio of Parma, with a three-year agreement for two operatic and two symphony productions every year.
He began his conducting career early, and it has led him to perform in such notable theatres as Teatro alla Scala (Milan) the Theater Basel, the Teatro Verdi (Trieste), the Teatro San Carlo (Naples), the Teatro Filarmonico (Verona), the Teatro la Fenice (Venice), the Teatro Lirico (Cagliari), the Teatro Massimo (Palermo) and the Teatro Regio (Parma); he has also conducted prestigious orchestras including the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Filarmonica Máichigiana, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana and the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento.
He has appeared at various festivals including the Michelangeli Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, Verona Contemporanea, the Festival Giovane at the Rossini Opera Festival, the Valle d'ltria of Martina Franca, the Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore and the Verdi Festival in Parma. He has collaborated with such distinguished soloists as ivo Pogorelić, Enrico Dindo, Sergej Krylov, Thomas Demenga and Mario Brunello.
Highlights for the 2016-2017 season inctude La traviata at the Bayerische Staatsoper and at the Münchner Opernfestspiele, Alda at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Arena di Verona, Falstaff at the Opera di Genova as well as performance with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan. Andrea Battistoni began his music studies at the age of seven with Petra and Zoltan Szabo, continuing then at the Conservatorio di Musica in Verona, graduating in cello in 2006 and attending master classes with the cellist Michael Flaksman in Germany, graduating in 2009. He began to study conducting and composition in 2004, training with Ennio Nicotra in Perugia and Russia, Gabriele Ferro at the Fiesole Music School in Florence and Glanandrea Noseda at the Accademia Musicale di Stresa.
In June 2008 he made his orchestral debut at the Michelangel/ International Music Festival in Bergamo with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and in October 2008, thanks to Maurizio Barbacini to whom he was an assistant, he made his operatic debut with La Bohéme at the Theater Basel
In 2015 he has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; they regularly perform together at Suntory Hall and in major concert halls and Opera theaters across Japan. Their recordings for Nippon Columbia have been acclaimed by critics, have received prices by specialized press and have been enthusiastically appreciated by the public.
After just one year, in 2016 he has been named Chief Conductor of Tokyo Philharmonic, strengthening his relationship with this renowned ensamble.
Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾 , Ozawa Seiji, born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor known for his advocacy of modern composers and for his work with the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is the recipient of numerous international awards.
In 2001, Ozawa was recognized by the Japanese government as a Person of Cultural Merit. In 2002, he became principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera. He continues to play a key role as a teacher and administrator at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer music home that has programs for young professionals and high school students. On New Year's Day 2002, Ozawa conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert.
In 2005, he founded Tokyo Opera Nomori (fr) and conducted its production of Richard Strauss's Elektra. On February 1, 2006, the Vienna State Opera announced that he had to cancel all his 2006 conducting engagements because of illness, including pneumonia and shingles. He returned to conducting in March 2007 at the Tokyo Opera Nomori. Ozawa stepped down from his post at the Vienna State Opera in 2010, to be succeeded by Franz Welser-Möst.
In October 2008, Ozawa was honored with Japan's Order of Culture, for which an awards ceremony was held at the Imperial Palace. He is a recipient of the 34th Suntory Music Award (2002) and the International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. On 6 December 2015, Ozawa was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors.
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