Kazuo Kanemaki

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Kazuo Kanemaki ( Japanese 印 牧 和 生 Kanemaki Kazuo , * 1949 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese conductor living in Hamburg .

Life

After graduating from high school, Kazuo Kanemaki studied horn and piano in Tokyo from 1968 to 1972 and was then principal horn player of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for two years . In 1974 he moved to Hamburg and studied musicology at the University of Hamburg and then from 1977 conducting with Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg and Horst Stein at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . He completed his studies in 1984.

He has directed the Hamburg Police Choir since 1990 and has given concerts with them in Europe, the USA , China and Japan. As a conductor, he has led the Hamburger Camerata, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony and the “Young Voices of Russia” choir.

In 2006 he conducted the “Symphonie Orchester Berlin” for the first time at a concert in the Berlin Philharmonic , where he has since performed regularly as a permanent guest conductor of this orchestra. A guest performance as a conductor took him to New York in 2012 , where he conducted the orchestra of the “New York Concert Artists”. In 2017 he conducted the great hall of the Vienna Music Association " Carmina Burana " by Carl Orff with the Kulturverein Orchester Wien as well as choirs from Japan and Austria . He is also the founder of several choirs.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Johannes Brahms Choir Hamburg. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Hamburg Police Choir : Kazuo Kanemaki. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kazuo Kanemaki | New York Concert Review, Inc. Retrieved October 5, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Kulturverein Orchester Wien. Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Austrian German).
personal data
SURNAME Kanemaki, Kazuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 印 牧 和 生 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo