Eiji Ōue

Eiji Ōue ( Japanese 大植英次 , Ōue Eiji ; born October 3, 1957 in Hiroshima ) is a Japanese conductor .

Life

Eiji Ōue was born in 1957 to an earlier samurai family. He began playing the piano at the age of four. At the age of 15 he began conducting studies with Hideo Saitō at the Toho Gakuen School of Music . In 1978 he received an invitation from Seiji Ozawa to study summer at Tanglewood Music Center . Here he met his future mentor Leonard Bernstein , with whom he later went on three international concert tours. He supported Leonard Bernstein in founding the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo in 1990 and worked there as a conductor.

Among other things, he was chief conductor of the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra (1991–1995), musical director of the Minnesota Orchestra (1995–2002), musical director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming (1997–2003), chief conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (2003–2011 ) and Chief Conductor of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (2006-2010). In 2005 he was invited to the Bayreuth Festival as the first Asian conductor to conduct a controversial performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde , which resulted in him being replaced by Peter Schneider in 2006 .

After a joint concert tour in 1997, Eiji Ōue became chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover for the 1998/1999 to 2008/2009 concert season . Ōue is the initiator of the NDR Music Day in Hanover, at which concerts take place in numerous unusual locations in the city. Eiji Ōue has held a professorship for conducting at the Hanover University of Music since 2000 .

Awards

1981: 1st prize and the Hans Haring gold medal in the conducting competition at the Salzburg Mozarteum
1990: Koussevitzky Memorial Fellowship Prize in Tanglewood
2005: Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
June 2, 2009: Lower Saxony Order of Merit, 1st class

literature

Jörg Worat: Eijii Oue , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), ´ Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 Hanoverian Heads , Hameln: CW Niemeyer book publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 146f.

Web links

Recordings by Eiji Tue in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Jörg Worat: Eijii Oue , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), ´Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 hannoversche Köpfe , Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 146f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c biography on IMG Artists ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Reviews of the Bayreuth Tristan production on süddeutsche.de
↑ A samurai for Bayreuth. Die Zeit, May 4, 2005, accessed on September 26, 2008 .
↑ Biography on klassik.com ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
^ Praetorius Lower Saxony Music Prize 2005 ( Memento from April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Ōue, Eiji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	大植英次 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hiroshima

[100_Köpfe-1] Jörg Worat: Eijii Oue , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), ´Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 hannoversche Köpfe , Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 146f.

[img-2] raphy on IMG Artists ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Reviews of the Bayreuth Tristan production on süddeutsche.de

[4] A samurai for Bayreuth. Die Zeit, May 4, 2005, accessed on September 26, 2008 .

[5] Biography on klassik.com ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

[6] Praetorius Lower Saxony Music Prize 2005 ( Memento from April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )