Akira Miyagawa (born February 18, 1961) is a Japanese composer, musician and conductor, who continues to distinguish himself as a composer of musicals and theatrical plays. He has won two excellence awards of prestigious Yomiuri Theater Awards in the theater company category; one was in 1997 for the music he created for “Shintokumaru,” and another was in 2005 for “Hamlet.” He also won the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater’s best musical award in 2000 for his music for “Miracle.”
Miyagawa began to make music for Shiki Theater Company and Tokyo Disneyland while he was studying at Tokyo University of the Arts. His most famous works include “One Man’s Dream,” “Shintokumaru,” “Sleeping in the Forest Champeaux,” “Miracle,” “Hamlet,” “Macbeth,” “Sans Famille,” “The Origin of Blood,” “The Little Prince,” “Rubichi,” “The Hit Parade,” “Musashi” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
In 2004, “Matsuken Samba II,” a song that Miyagawa wrote for live music shows by Ken Matsudaira, became a big hit. It is noteworthy to mention that what had been performed strictly in the theater gained wide popularity among the public.
Miyagawa feels equally passionate for performing and continues to collaborate with his fellow musicians and symphony orchestras. Since 1998, he has been the music director of Akira Miyagawa & the Ensemble Vega. In addition, he currently leads Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band as its artistic director. Under Miyagawa’s musical direction, the ensemble regularly gives brass band music performances.
From 1995 to 2010, Miyagawa led Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra as its music director and permanent conductor in popular music concerts. Miyagawa continues to collaborate with New Japan Philharmonic to provide new music experiences for audiences (Concertante II—Akira Miyagawa verses New Japan Philharmonic).
Miyagawa’s other musical collaborators include Makoto Hirahara, one of the most prominent saxophone players in Japan, and Hiromi Okazaki, a singer whose beautiful singing is popular among children.
At these concerts, Miyagawa plays the piano, conducts an orchestra or ensemble, performs various genres of music including his own, and tells the audience stories behind the pieces of music that are performed on stage. Miyagawa earns praise for his ability and efforts to make live performances entertaining to people of all ages.
Miyagawa’s success expands beyond theaters and music halls. Between 2003 and 2010, he produced music for “Quintet,” NHK’s television show for children, in which Miyagawa himself appeared and plays a role of the mysterious pianist/concertmaster for the ensemble that consists of puppets. He also produced music for and appeared in “Do Re Mi Fa Wonderland” (2009-2010, broadcast by NHK) and “Showtime by Akira Miyagawa,” (2011-2012, NHK).
“Space Battleship Yamato 2199,” an anime television series, which is a remake of the first Space Battleship Yamato, a legendary anime series, is one of Miyagawa’s many other works outside of theaters and music halls.
Toshiyuki Kamioka K (上岡 敏之 Kamioka Toshiyuki, born January 20 September 1960) is a Japanese conductor and pianist, who lives and works predominantly in Germany since 1984.
Born in Tokyo, Toshiyuki Kamioka studied from 1979 to 1983 conducting, composition, piano and violin at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he was awarded the Ataka prize in 1982. A scholarship of Rotary International enabled him to continue his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Klauspeter Seibel.
After positions in Kiel and at the Aalto Theatre in Essen Kamioka, he was appointed General music director at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 1996, where he worked until 2004. From 1998 to 2006 he was also General music director of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford. In January 2000, he conducted them in Einojuhani Rautavaara's Symphony No.7 (Angel of Light) in Detmold, Paderborn, Herford, Bad Salzuflen and Minden.
Since 2004 Kamioka has been General music director of Wuppertal, from 2012, he was also conductor of the Opernhaus Wuppertal, and a professor for conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken.
Kamioka has conducted as a guest the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony and German radio orchestras.
In 2010 he was awarded the Von der Heydt Prize of the city of Wuppertal as conductor of the Symphony Orchestra Wuppertal.
Kei Yonashiro is a baritone singer. After finishing his bachelor’s studies in piano performance at the Toho College of Music, Kei Yonashiro switched his major to singing for his Master’s study at the same institution, and he has since established a reputation as an authentic baritone to lead today’s vocal music scene in Japan. A graduate of the New National Theatre Opera Studio’s Training Programme for Opera Singers, he has studied in Milan as a Trainee of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists.
He has won numerous prizes, including the third prize at the 16th Mario del Monaco International Vocal Competition, as well as the first prize and the Yoshinao Nakata Prize at the 18thSogaku-do Jpanese Song Competition.He has appeared as Guglielmo in the Amon Miyamoto production of Cosi fan tutte, Apollo in Orfeo at the Hokutopia International Music Festival 2007, Escamillo in Carmen at the special concert performance at Seiji Ozawa Music Camp, Onegin in the Peter Konwitschny production of Eugene Onegin,and Belcore in L’elisir d’Amore with the New National Theatre,Tokyo Opera. He has also invited as a solo singer by major orchestras in Japan.
Makoto Fujita painting graduated from Musashino Music College. She appeared at the same university graduation concert, Yomiuri Shinkin concert. Chamber music to K. Berkesh, R. Bobo, Horn to Masashi Ogawa, Makoto Yamamoto, Masato Abe and Tsutomu Maruyama.
She won the second prize at the 1st Japan Horn Competition. Currently, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra Horn player.
Takeshi Oi (Otake Takeshi, 1974) is a conductor in Japan. He is from Tokyo. Since he was 17, he studied conducting tactics and technique under Matsuo Yoko. After graduating from the Department of Music in Tokyo University of Arts in 1999, he graduated from the graduate school music department of the same university and received instruction from Hiroshi Wakasugi and Hiroyuki Iwaki inside the campus.
After that, under the summer seminars in Switzerland and Italy, he received instruction from James Levine, Kurt Masur, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Isaac Karabtchevsky.
In addition, he taught as a part-time lecturer at Seitoku University School of Music and a part-time lecturer at Kurashiki Sakuyo University. He is also a visiting professor at SHOBI College of Music.
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.
Miyata Da (Miyasu Daito, July 5, 1986 -) is a cellist born in Tochigi prefecture. Started playing cello at the age of 3, he won the first prize for all contests competing from 9 years old. In 2009, at the Rostropovich International Cello Competition, he won the first victory as a Japanese. Actively perform at home and abroad.
In addition to major domestic orchestras, he has performed with the Paris Orchestra , Frankfurt Sinfonietta, the SK German Television Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and so on. In 2016, he held an unaccompanied cello recital at Suntory Hall .
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）.
Alexei Volodin (Russian: Алексей Володин ; born 1977) is a Russian pianist.
He was born in St. Petersburg, and began taking piano lessons there at the age of nine. A year later he moved to Moscow, where he studied first with Irina Chaklina and later with Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Music School. In 1994 he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatoire and at the end of his studies there in 2001 in the master class of Professor Eliso Virsaladze. 2001/2002 he rounded off his studies at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation in Como.
He was 2003 the winner of the 9th Concours Géza Anda in Zurich
Meanwhile Volodin looks back on a remarkable career, he gave recitals all over the world. He has also performed with prestigious orchestras, such as the Sydney Symphony, the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover, Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich. He has worked with conductors like Riccardo Chailly, Mikhail Pletnev, Eiji Oue, Gerd Albrecht, Carlo Rizzi, Zoltan Kocsis, David Zinman, Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Fedoseyev, among others.
In May 2005, Alexei Volodin gave his debut recital at the Champs-Elysées Theater, where he achieved an extraordinary public and critical success, being immediately re-invited for the next seasons.
Fumiaki Kuriyama (Kuriyama Fumiaki, January 17, 1942 -) is a Japanese choral conductor. I am from Shimane prefecture.
Shimane prefectural Masuda high school, graduated from Shimane University School of Education special music department. Studied choral command with Nobuaki Tanaka, Masamitsu Takashina. I will study hard at the Bikai-cho choir, Tokyo mixed philharmonic chorus, and actually sing the ninth etc. at Karajan conducting and gaining experience. While acting as a music director and conductor of "Kuriho Kai" currently having 13 choirs, as a national lecturer of Naomi Gakuen for many years, as a representative secretary of a society choral group "music tree" thinking about the chorus of the 21st century , "Tokyo Cantat" and so on.
In the All-Japan Choral Competition which I participated until 1994, I received numerous gold awards and the highest prize, a special prize, and in addition to saying "Kuriyama phenomenon", Koro · Karos, one of the members of the Kuri-ichi affiliation, won the 1994 Sports Tolosa International He won the Grand Prix at the European Grand Prix Choral Competition (Italy), which was held only in European competition Grand Prix winners in Italy in 1995 in the following chorus competition. We are actively engaged in commissioning to contemporary composers in Japan and have many opportunities to be invited and played abroad.
Currently he is a professor at the Musashino College of Music College, and an art director at the Shimane Prefectural Art and Culture Center Grantowa. In 1997, Masuda City sports and culture prize was awarded. In 2002, he won the 20th Nakajima Kenzo Music Award Encouragement Award.
Inoue Michiyoshi (December 23, 1946 -) is a conductor in Japan, a pianist. Passionate about the arts from a young age, Michiyoshi Inoue began piano lessons very early and studied ballet for ten years before deciding, at the age of fifteen, to pursue a career as a conductor. On entering the renowned Toho Gakuen School of Music, he studied under the late Hideo Saito, one of the country’s most prominent music scholars and mentor to conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Hiroshi Wakasugi and Kazuyoshi Akiyama.
From 2007 to 2018, he was engaged as Artistic Adviser of the Ishikawa Ongakudo and as Music Director of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, with which he very successfully toured Europe in the summer of 2008. Also, from 2014 to 2018 he served as the Principal Conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra.
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.
Nobuko Imai (今井 信子 Imai Nobuko, born March 18, 1943 in Tokyo), is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument.
Imai began her musical training at the age of six.[1] She began studying at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and switched to viola there. Then she went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1967 and won highest prize at both the Geneva International Music Competition and ARD International Music Competition at Munich.
She has worked in chamber music projects with artists such as Martha Argerich, Kyung-Wha Chung, Heinz Holliger, Mischa Maisky, Midori,[2] Murray Perahia, Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman, and appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She is a former member of the Vermeer Quartet and is the founder and a member of the Michaelangelo Quartet, where she performs together with Mihaela Martin, Daniel Austrich and Frans Helmerson. For young musicians from Japan and the Netherlands, she founded the East West Baroque Academy.
Her discography includes more than 30 releases on labels such as BIS, Chandos, DG, EMI, Hyperion, and Philips. She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Avon Arts Award (1993), Japan's Suntory Music Award (1995) and Mainichi Award of Arts (1996). Toru Takemitsu composed for her a Viola Concerto A String around Autumn in 1989.
Between 1983 and 2003 Imai taught as a Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She currently teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (website of conservatory), at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland, at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Geneva (website of conservatory) and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
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