Hirofumi Yoshida

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Hirofumi Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 裕 史 , Yoshida Hirofumi ; * 1968 in Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese conductor. He currently lives in Italy.

education

His father Toru comes from Tokyo, his mother Ayako from Hokkaidō. Yoshida attended Konodai High School , then pursued his passion and enrolled at Tokyo College of Music . He specialized in piano with Yukiko Okafuji, double bass with Mitsuru Onozaki, musicology with Reiko Arima and Tomiko Kojiba and conducting with Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Jun-Ichi Hirokami and Yujiro Tsuda. Between 1994 and 1995 he moved to Vienna and received his master's degree from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Hans Graf and Julius Kalmar. In 1996 he received the Advanced Music Master at the Conservatory of Chigiana in Siena with Juri Temirkanov and Myung-Whun Chung.

Career

Maestro Yoshida began his career between 1994 and 1999 thanks to the collaboration with the conductor of the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theater , where he mainly directed Mozart's operas such as The Marriage of Figaro , The Magic Flute and Così fan tutte .

In 1999 he received a state scholarship to gain experience in the field of opera. Sent by the Agency of Culture, he came to Europe with the status of artist and researcher. The scholarship allowed him to visit three theaters of international fame: the Malmö Music Theater in Sweden, the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

In 2001, two years later, he took part in the “International Maazel-Vilar Competition for Conductors” as an Asian candidate. In 2002, Yoshida became the first conductor to receive the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award as a young talent in lyric opera . In 2003 he won a second grant from the Rohm Music Foundation to study Italian texts in Rome at the Rome Opera House and at the San Theater. He was also invited as a guest conductor with the Adygeyan Republic National Symphony Orchestra in Russia.

In 2004 he was artistic director at the Ichikawa Opera for the first time. Thanks to the third place at the "Béla Bartók Memorial International Opera Conducting Competition", which was held for the first time, he made his debut in Europe in 2005 with Tosca von Puccini. The debut continued at the Rome Opera House with Cavalleria rusticana and Rigoletto . Then he worked with the Symphonic Orchestra of Transylvania and the Orchestra Concert of Budapest.

In 2006 he made his debut with great success at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste with the ballet group of the Rome Opera House with Carla Fracci . He also conducted the Keio Wagner Society Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein and the Smetana Hall in Prague. At the same time he studied other operas by Puccini. In 2004, Yoshida conducted Puccini's Edgar at Ichikawa Opera for the first time in Japan.

In 2007 he made his debut in the summer season at the Rome Opera House in the Baths of Caracalla and conducted Pagliacci and the ballet Romeo and Juliet under the direction of Carla Fracci, as it had celebrated a great success the year before. Thanks to this collaboration, the maestro had the opportunity to work with the successful director Beppe Menegatti.

In the same year the maestro was invited by the Cairo National Theater to conduct Verdi's Aida . The same year the Taatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste invited him to conduct the opera orchestra in Antonio Marquez's ballet “La visa breve”. That year he also conducted Tosca at the Cluj-Napoca Opera in Romania.

Thanks to the great success of the previous year at the National Theater in Cairo, the Cairo Opera House invited Yoshida in 2008 to conduct Puccini's " Madama Butterfly ", due to the cultural ties of his Japanese roots and the history that Puccini wanted to evoke. It was also the year of La Traviata by Verdi in Paris, The Marriage of Figaro in Tokyo and the Japanese version of some of the key scenes from The Tale of Genji by Minor Miki, which were first brought to Japan. The maestro also showed the European opera Don Carlos in Hong Kong, in the east.

2009 was marked by the relationship that Yoshida wanted to create between his birth culture and that of the host state through his mastery over the operas of Puccini. In Italy, he performed another opera from the cultural tradition of the East, the Turandot by Puccini, at the Marrucino Theater in Chieti to highlight the intersection between European and Oriental culture.

Other events in the same year included: the election of Yoshida as the winner of the “best of 2009: Behind the Scenes” award from the APA (Asia Pacific Arts) division; the lecture of The Love Potion by Donizetti in Ercolano with the orchestra from the San Carlo Theater of Naples and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart in Tokyo.

In 2010 the maestro had an important position in the Festival for Puccini of Torre del Lago, as the first Japanese conductor to present Puccini's Turandot together with the famous director Maurizio Scaparro. In the same year he also conducted Rigoletto at the most important international theaters, including the Giglio di Lucca social theater and the Marialisa De Coralis theater in Sassari. That year, Yoshida started as the director of Mantova's social theater. He also made his debut at the National Opera House of Latvia with La Traviata .

Thanks to the cooperation between Yoshida and the Japanese government, together with the Piedmont region and the municipality of Novara, the "Japan Festival 2011" was born. In the same year Yoshida also directed the orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa.

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SURNAME Yoshida, Hirofumi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉田 裕 史 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hokkaidō