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2018 Sage Ozawa Matsumoto Festival

2019 セイジ・オザワ 松本フェスティバル 特別公演
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Momo Kodama

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Momo Kodama (児玉 Kodama Momo, born 1972) is a Japanese classical pianist. She was born in Osaka but grew up in Europe, attending the National Conservatory of Music in Paris with older sister Mari.

She made her debut in 1991 with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and was the youngest winner of the International Piano Competition in Munich at age 19. Since then she has performed with various symphonic orchestras and cultural festival in Europe and Latin America and has released six recordings.

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Mari Kodama

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Mari Kodama (児玉 麻里 Kodama Mari) (born 1967) is a classical pianist who has performed at festivals and other venues in Europe, North America and Japan. She was born in Osaka, Japan in 1967 and raised in Germany and Paris, France due to her father's postings in these countries as well as Switzerland and England. She and sister Momo, are daughters of a pianist mother and banker father. Their mother gave up performances for teaching and Mari assuming everyone played piano.

She wanted to begin play at age 2, but her parents thought she was too young. She was able to read notes by age three. By the age of 10, she had already decided to be a concert pianist deciding not to return to Japan to prepare for university.She studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris starting at age 14, under Germaine Mounier, and chamber music under Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux and while still a teenager, was performing in various European competitions. She made her Japanese debut in 1984 at age 17 and was immediately a success.

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Kazuyoshi Akiyama

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Akiyama Kazuke (Kazuyoshi Akiyama, January 2, 1941) is a well-known conductor in Japan, graduated from Toho Gakuen Music College. He is a conductor at Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra Honorary and president of the Japan Conductor Association (fifth generation). He is well versed in brass bandnes, and he is a special conductor and art advisor to musical band groups.

Kazuyoshi Akiyama was born into a musical family, he studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, but was fascinated by the conducting activities of a fellow student, Seiji Ozawa. He decided to study conducting with Hideo Saito. In 1974, Akiyama made his debut with the Tokyo Symphony, and within two months, he was named the orchestras Music Director and Permanent Conductor.

The debut performance was at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 1964, next the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, then he became the deputy conductor of Toronto Symphony Orchestra of Canada. The conductor took over as Vancouver Symphony Orchestra music director and a music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as guest at numerous international concerns such as: American, Canadian and European, etc,.

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Ozawa Seiji

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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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Takumi Komoriya

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Takumi Komoriya is a Japanese talent violinist, born into a musical family and completed a diploma of music at Toho Gakuen School of Music before moving overseas to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. After relocating to England, he studied under artists such as, Tsugio Tokunaga, Josef Suk and Yfrah Neaman. He won special awards in the Libitz Violin competition as well as the Fuml International Violin competition. He also won the Henryk Szeryng Prize.

He continued to work in England and around Europe recieving favorable reviews in "The STRAD" (magazine for string instruments). After completing a Diploma in performance at the Royal British College of Music (graduating top of his class), he returned to Japan. In 1987, he joined the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and worked as head concert master. In 1991, he won the Idemitsu Music award.

Currently, he is a Professor of Music at Showa University and an instructor at the Kunitachi College of Music. He is also a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra as well as the Concert Master of the Yomiuri Japan Symphony Orchestra.

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Kyoko Takezawa

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Kyoko Takezawa (竹澤 恭子 , Takezawa Kyōko) is a prominent Japanese-born violinist. She has recorded for the RCA Victor Red Seal label. Born in Ōbu, Aichi, she started her training in Japan as a part of the Suzuki Method program and was part of a tour of the United States. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School (1989) where her teacher was Dorothy DeLay. Ms. Takezawa won the gold medal in 1986, and served as a judge for the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.

She played on the Stradivarius loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation until it was sold at auction in 2006 for US$3,544,000.

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Mayumi Makino

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Mayumi Makino is a Japanese singer. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts. She won the 3rd place at Fujisawa Opera Competition and Gold Award at 30th Italian Vocal Concordso.

Mayumi Makino has appeared in many opera performances. In 2003, she appeared at Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto "Fureai Concert in Chorus of 1000 people" (conductor: Seiji Ozawa) and sang Carmen. In 2006, she acted as Emilia in the opera of Tokyo.

Recently, she is a member of the Fujiwara Opera Group. Apart from being a singer, she is a lecturer at Ferris College.

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Derrick Inouye

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Derrick Inouye (Derrick Inouye, 1956 -) is a conductor in Canada. Studied the violin at the University of British Columbia, he conducted at Toho Gakuen University and then studied under Erich Rhinesdorf et al. In 1985 he won the competition at the Vittorio Gui in Florence.

After early training in flute, piano, and violin he attended the University of British Columbia in 1973 as a violin major, and showed a strong aptitude for conducting. He later studied conducting with Hideo Saito in Japan and with Franco Ferrara in Italy.

Derrick Inouye has a uniquely impressive international background combining a wealth of experience on the orchestral podium with an array of increasingly important operatic engagements, performing with such prominent orchestras and opera companies as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Nurnberg Opera, Opera Nice Cote DAzur, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, the Philharmonia of London, and the Orchestra of St. Lukes in New York.

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Mika Takehara

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Mika Takehara (Mika Takehara) is a percussionist living from Fukuoka prefecture and living in Sweden. In addition to solo activities, she also works as a member of Saito Kinen Orchestra and Mito Chamber Orchestra. In 1998 he debuted as a soloist in Sweden.

She also appeared in Saito Kinen festival of Seiji Ozawa director.From 2005 to 2010 she was active as a member of the Mito Chamber Orchestra.

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Kazuko Shinozaki (harp player)

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Kazuko Shinozaki is a harp player born in Tokyo. At the age of 8, she started playing the harp with her mother. Blooming talent from childhood, she won many awards at domestic and foreign competitions.

After two years as a foreign trainee of Agency for Cultural Affairs Dispatch Artist Studied in Paris, she returnied to the country in 2004. She has performed with major domestic orchestras in Japan, in various locations, in concerts of chamber music. In addition, she participates in the Tokyo Opera Forest and Seiji Ozawa Music School.

In April 2002, she debuted CD solo at the first album "Queen in the Tower" (Meister Music). In August 2010, Mozart: Concerto for flute and harp K.299 (Meister music) with Mr. Shigenori Kudo of flute was released and got noticed.

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Yamamoto Hiroyasu (cello)

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Yamamoto Hiroyasu is a cello artist from Aichi prefecture. During his undergraduate years, he has won numerous awards including the 1 st ranking of the 56th Japan Music Competition in 1987 and the 1st place in the 1st Japan Chamber Music Competition. After graduating from the university, he studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Graduate Studies.

In 1990, he became the principal player of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. After retiring in 1994, he became a guest soloist of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, became the principal player of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997, and has reached the present. He has co-starred the same orchestra with Haydn, Schumann, Gurda and many other concertos as soloists, all of which have been well received.

In addition to the string quartet ensemble, as a member of the orchestra MAP'S, he has also co-starred with many prominent musicians as a cellist that can not be missed in the field of chamber music. Cello Representation of Cello Repubblica, Planning of the Chilot Music Festival, Mr. Akira Miyagawa and a unit of educational program with two people, etc, activities are diverse. Following the complete songs by Bach's unaccompanied cello suite in 2008, the album "Scenery" announced in 2012 got the evaluation of a quasi-recommended board in the record art magazine.

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Miyata Da

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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 .

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Tsujimoto Rei (cello)

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Graduating from the Tokyo University of the Arts at the top of his class, Rei Tsujimoto received the Acanthus Award. Since then, he has won numerous prizes and awards including 2nd prize and the Iwatani (audience) prize in the 72nd Music Competition of Japan, Best New Artist award in the 2007 Kyoto Aoyama Music Award and 3rd prize in the 2009 Gaspar Cassadó International Violoncello Competition.

He studied abroad at the Sibelius Academy and Berlin University of the Arts. In 2011, he held debut recitals in five locations throughout Japan including the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In addition to his participation as a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra and quartet in residence of the Arkas Sasebo, every summer he attracts attention as a talented musician of the Koji Oikawa Trio Bee and Yuzuko Horigome chamber music performance series.

In June 2015, he joined the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra as solo cello. To date, he has played with the New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Japan Century Symphony Orchestra. He studied under Metta Watts, Orlando Cole, Yorimitsu Kawamoto, Noboru Kamimura, Nobuko Yamazaki, Arto Noras, and Antôni Meneses. He plays cello built by Antonio Stradivarius in 1724 provided to him on loan by NPO Yellow Angel.

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Suzuki Manabu (Viola)

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Suzuki Manabu is a violinist. After graduating from Toho Gakuen University, he studied at Hamburg State College of Music. Since 1993, he was the main violinist of Linz-Bruckner Orchestra of Austria. He returned to Japan in 2004 and now he is the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra's principal soloist.

He has appeared in many other music festivals such as Lucerne, Santa Fe, International Bruckner Music Festival. He also actively introduces violin work to Japan.

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Philippe Tondre (Oboe player)

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Philippe Tondre (born in 1989) is a French contempory classical oboist. He had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, the New Mozart Orchestraof London, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and participates in many festivals in Asia, Europe and the United States.

In 2013, Philippe played the German premiere of James MacMillan's Oboe concerto under the direction of the composer in Stuttgart with his orchestra. In June of the same year, he played his "Debüt Konzert" at the Berlin Philharmonic with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin. He also leads numerous masterclasses in Germany, Taiwan, China and Japan.

Philippe Tondre is a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Saar and has held the position of Solo Oboe at the Leipzig Gewandhaus since August 2016.

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Sébastian Jacot (flute player)

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Sébastian Jacot was born in Geneva in 1987, and started playing the flute at age eight. From 2006 to 2008, Mr Jacot was Assistant Principal Flute under Maestro Edo de Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2008 he has served as Principal Flutist at the Saito Kinen Festival under Maestro Seiji Osawa and is currently Solo Flutist at the Contrechamps Ensemble in Geneva.

Mr. Jacot has been invited to play in orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra in Bologna under Maestro Claudio Abbado, the Stockholm Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and plays regularly with the Munich Chamber Orchestra. He also presents recitals, master classes and performs in chamber music, and festivals all over the world.

Mr. Jacot plays one of three cocus wooden Haynes made in 1999, a 14k custom made golden Parmenon and a silver Miyasawa generously given by the President of the Arts Global, Heather de Haes.

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Jacques Zoon (Flute)

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Jacques Zoon (pronounced: /ʒak zoːn/; born 1961 in Heiloo, North Holland) is a Dutch flutist.

As a teenager and during his studies, Zoon played in the Dutch National Youth Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra, among others under direction of Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein. From 1988 to 1994, Zoon was principal flutist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, his arrival coinciding with that of conductor Riccardo Chailly.

Zoon has been professor of flute at the Rotterdam Conservatory (1988–1992), Indiana University (1994–1997), and the New England Conservatory and Boston University (1997–2001). Since 2002, he has taught at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève and since 2008 at Madrid's Reina Sofía School of Music and International Chambr Music Institute of Madrid.

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Ryo Oshima

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Ryo Oshima is a Japanese violinist. Oshima has been awarded such awards as Toho Gakuen University and the 7th Tokyo Music Competition. Currently, he served as the principal viola player of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ryo Oshima is also the chief player of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Shirai Kyu

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Kei Shirai is one of the young violinists that Toppan Hall is most hoping for. He is a performer who can listen to deep music with the warm hearted. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1983. After going to Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music High School, he studied at Vienna State College of Music since 2007.

He won the 1999 All-Japan Student Music Competition and the 2nd place and the Masuzawa Prize at the 2001 Japanese Music Competition. He has performed in various domestic and foreign music festivals.

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Masaharu Yamamoto (clarinet player)

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Masaharu Yamamoto (Masaharu Yamamoto, August 12, 1950 -) is a clarinet player born in Tokyo. After graduating Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music High School, Tokyo University of the Arts, he studied clarinet with Mishima Katsusuke.

In 1972, he won first prize at the 41st Japan Music Competition and Clarinet Division. In 1976, he won the 2nd prize in the wood duo trio division of the Colmar International Chamber Music Competition in France.

Currently, he is a professor at Musashino Music College as well as the president of the Japan Clarinet Association.

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Ryutaro Maki (Contrabass)

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Ryutaro Maki (Heyu Rurouro, February 22, 1981 -) is a Japanese contrabass player. In 1999, he graduated from the department of music at Nishinomiya High School in Hyogo Prefecture and then entered Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

In 2005, he graduated with the highest score at the same college diploma exam and entered the graduate school master course. In the same year passed the Academy exam of the Berlin State Opera Orchestra (Staatskapelle · Berlin), studying as a member of the orchestra under the direction of the chief conductor Daniel Barenboim.

In 2007, he joined the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, one of the German public broadcaster orchestras, under the lead conductor Sir Roger Norrington. In 2009, he received an invitation as a soloist from the Danish "Spor festival", as a contemporary composer Beat Fuller composer: "Solo control trabus" and "Roto Fagos" for soprano.

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Toshiaki Komada

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Toshiaki Komada is an opera singer from Aichi prefecture. He graduated from Tokyo University of Arts. After completing a 3-year training at the New National Theater Opera Training Center, she studied in Berlin, Germany.

In 2012, he was selected as an audition for the role of Ramiro in the role of Ramelo. In this year, he was awarded the Labberte-Hoedemaker Award as a vocal representative for the final concert of the music festival. In parallel with the opera concert activity, he is constantly focusing on the performance of German songs.

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Takeshima Satoshi (percussion)

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Takeshima Satoshi (January 22, 1976 -) is a percussionist, marimba player, pianist, composer and arranger of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Department of Instrumental Music Instrumental Percussion Instrument.

In 1992, he played his own songs with the Goddam Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadeusz Strgawa. In 1995, he entered Tokyo Institute of Music Department. In the following year, he won the second prize at the 13th Nippon Kessan Percussion Percussion Percussion Instrument Division.

From 2003, he is a percussionist in the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Currently, he is active in the front lines of various music scenes as a percussionist of classical music, he is also actively working as a pianist, composer and arranger.

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Geneviève Bujold

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Geneviève Bujold (French pronunciation: ​[ʒən.vjɛːv by.ʒo]; born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Bujold received strong reviews for her portrayal of a drug-dependent movie star in David Cronenberg's psychological horror, Dead Ringers (1988), opposite Jeremy Irons. After a long absence from Quebec, she returned to appear in two more films by Michel Brault: The Paper Wedding (1989), and My Friend Max (1994). A few years later, she was back in Quebec to star in Chaos and Desire (2002), directed by Manon Briand.

In 1994, Bujold was chosen to play Captain Nicole Janeway (subsequently renamed Kathryn Janeway), lead character in the ensemble cast of the American television series Star Trek: Voyager. However, she left the project after just two days of filming, with producers of the show citing the "demanding" work schedule as the reason. Kate Mulgrew was subsequently cast in the role.

Bujold continues to work, primarily in independent films. In 2012, she received praise for her portrayal of a woman battling dementia in the acclaimed romantic drama, Still Mine. Stephen Holden of The New York Times commented: "Ms. Bujold imbues Irene with a starchy tenacity and a sharp sense of humor", while The Washington Post called her performance "superb" and "remarkably detailed".

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This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Miyata Da", "Shirai Kyu", "Momo Kodama", "Mari Kodama", "Ozawa Seiji", "Mika Takehara", "Kyoko Takezawa", "Derrick Inouye", "Takumi Komoriya", "Geneviève Bujold", "Kazuyoshi Akiyama", "Jacques Zoon (Flute)", "Tsujimoto Rei (cello)", "Suzuki Manabu (Viola)", "Ryutaro Maki (Contrabass)", "Takeshima Satoshi (percussion)", "Masaharu Yamamoto (clarinet player)", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
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