NHK symphony orchestra
The NHK Symphony Orchestra ( Japanese NHK 交響 楽 団 , NHK Kōkyō Gakudan ) in Tokyo is a Japanese symphony orchestra . It was founded as the New Symphony Orchestra ( 新 交響 楽 団 , Shin Kōkyō Gakudan ) on October 5, 1926, making it Japan's first professional symphony orchestra, founded by Konoe Hidemaro , who also directed it until 1935. The name was later changed to the Japanese Symphony Orchestra and in 1951 to its current name in return for financial support from NHK . In the same year the orchestra was awarded the Asahi Prize . The orchestra is a regular member of the Japanese Orchestra Association .
Vladimir Ashkenazy and Charles Dutoit were the music directors. Wolfgang Sawallisch was honored as "Laureate Conductor".
Permanent conductors
- Josef König (1926–1929)
- Konoe Hidemaro (1926-1935)
- Nikolai Schifferblatt (1929–1936)
- Joseph Rosenstock (1936–1951); (1956–1957) (chief conductor)
- Hisatada Otaka (1942–1951)
- Kazuo Yamada (1942–1951)
- Shin'ichi Takata (1944–1951)
- Kurt Wöss (1951–1954) (chief conductor)
- Niklaus Aeschbacher (1954–1956) (chief conductor)
- Wilhelm Loibner (1957–1959) (chief conductor)
- Wilhelm Schüchter (1959–1962) (chief conductor)
- Alexander Rumpf (1964–1965) (chief conductor)
- Charles Dutoit (1996–1998) (chief conductor) ; (1998–2003) (music director)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (2004–2007) (music director)
- Paavo Järvi (since 2015) (chief conductor)
Honorary and guest conductors
- Joseph Rosenstock (1951–1985)
- Lovro von Matačić (1967–1985)
- Joseph Keilberth (1967–1968)
- Wolfgang Sawallisch (1967–1994, 1994– February 2013)
- Hiroyuki Iwaki (1969-2006)
- Otmar Suitner (1973-2010)
- Horst Stein (1975-2008)
- Tadashi Mori (1979-1987)
- Yūzō Toyama (1979-)
- Herbert Blomstedt (1986–)
- Yukio Kitahara (1989-)
- Hiroshi Wakasugi (1995-2009)
- Charles Dutoit (2003-)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (2007–)
- André Previn (2009-2019)
- Tadaaki Otaka (2010-)
Web links
- Works by and about the NHK Symphony Orchestra in the catalog of the German National Library
- Orchestra website
- History of the orchestra and information in cosmopolis.ch