Kazuhiro Koizumi

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Kazuhiro Koizumi ( Japanese小泉 和 裕; born October 16, 1949 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese conductor .

From 1969 he studied conducting with Kazuo Yamada at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku . In 1970 he won first prize at the Min-On Concert Association of Japan Conducting Competition. He then received an assistant from the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo from 1970 to 1972 . In 1972 he was one of the founding conductors of the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo. In the same year he took up orchestral conducting studies with Hans Martin Rabenstein at the University of the Arts in Berlin (West). In the summer of 1973 he undertook further studies at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts at the invitation of Seiji Ozawa . In 1973 he won the first prize at the 3rd Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin and made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic .

From 1975 to 1979 he was music director and from 1975 to 1992 managing director of the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. Furthermore he conducted a. a. the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , the Vienna Philharmonic , the Munich Philharmonic , the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonia Hungarica , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra , the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra . He also worked with musicians such as Anton Rubinstein and Mstislav Rostropovich . He made appearances at the Salzburg Festival and the Ravinia Festival .

From 1983 to 1989 he was music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Manitoba . He dedicated himself in particular to the late romantic repertoire and choral works by u. a. Mahler, Bach and Fauré. During his time in Manitoba, he recorded five commissioned albums from James Hiscott , Robert Turner , Michael Matthews , Kenneth Nichols and Sidney Robinovitch . He also conducted the Tokyo Prefecture Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989 . From 1988 he repeatedly conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Several Tchaikovsky recordings were made ( 4th , 5th and 6th symphonies ). From 1989 to 1996 he was chief conductor of the Kyūshū Symphony Orchestra and from 1992 to 1995 guest conductor of the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra . From 1995 to 1998 he was chief conductor of the Tokyo Prefecture Symphony Orchestra and from 2003 to 2008 of the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra in Toyonaka.

From 2006 to 2018 he was principal guest conductor with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2014. He was also appointed honorary conductor of the Tokyo Prefecture Symphony Orchestra. Since 2016 he has been music director of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra .

literature

  • Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuhn, Dennis McIntire: Koizumi, Kazuhiro. In: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (English).
  • Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne Kennedy: Koizumin, Kazuhiro . In: Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Ed.): Oxford Dictionary Of Music . 6th edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-957854-2 , pp. 462 (English, full text in Google Book Search [accessed June 26, 2020]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Past conductors of New Japan Philharmonic , njp.or.jp, accessed February 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Barbara Novak: Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . March 4, 2015. Accessed February 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kazuhiro Koizumi - biography
  4. ^ Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra: About Us
personal data
SURNAME Koizumi, Kazuhiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 小泉 和 裕
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo