Kyushu Symphony Orchestra

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The Across Fukuoka, venue of the symphony orchestra

The symphony orchestra Kyūshū ( Japanese 公益 財 団 法人 九州 交響 楽 団 , Kōeki Zaidan Hōjin Kyūshū Kōkyō Gakudan , short: Kyūkō ( 九 響 ), English. The Kyushu Symphony Orchestra ) is a professional Japanese symphony orchestra, which in 1953 was called an amateur orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra ”( 九大 フ ィ ル ハ ー モ ニ ー オ ー ケ ス ト ラ ) at Kyūshū University . It was under the direction of the conductor and composer Hiroshi Ishimura and played for NHK Fukuoka, but without a permanent contract. After the reorganization in 1973, it became a professional orchestra that mainly gives concerts in Kyushu . The orchestra has been a legal foundation since 1975 and has been a non-profit organization since 2013. It is a regular member of the Japanese Orchestra Association .

The orchestra gives regular subscription concerts from April to July and September to December in the Across, the Philharmonic in Fukuoka with 1871 seats. In addition, there are four tenjin concerts in the FFG hall every year. There are also two concerts in the Performing Arts Center and the Hibiki Hall in Kitakyūshū and a concert in the Ishibashi Bunka Hall in Kurume .

From 1983 the orchestra recorded all of Mozart's symphonies and piano concertos on CD. In addition, the orchestra performed the piano concertos by Beethoven and Brahms between 1998 and 2003 with Heiichirō Ōyama as conductor and Takahiro Sonoda as pianist.

Conductors of the orchestra

Tōru Yasunaga , the son of the conductor Takeichirō Yasunaga, is also concertmaster with the Berlin Philharmonic .

Discography

Web links

  • Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. ders., accessed on March 4, 2017 (English, website of the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra (English / Japanese)).

Remarks

  1. The term tenjin ( 天神 ) is not used here in the usual word meaning "gods". What is meant is the district of the same name in Fukuoka.

Individual evidence

  1. About us. Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, accessed March 4, 2017 .