Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra ( Japanese 公益 財 団 法人 東京 フ ィ ル ハ ー モ ニ ー 交響 楽 団 , Kōeki Zaidan Hōjin Tōkyō Firuhāmonī Kōkyō Gakudan , short: 東京 フ ィ ル , Tōkyō- Philharmonic Orchestra ) is a professional orchestra. It is also the oldest Japanese symphony orchestra. It was founded in 1911 and headquartered in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku , in the district of Shinjuku , Tokyo .
The orchestra is a regular member of the Japanese Orchestra Association . Its main venue is the Orchard Hall in the Bunkamura cultural facility. In addition, the orchestra usually accompanies opera and music performances in the New National Theater Tokyo and in Suntory Hall .
The orchestra was founded in 1911 by a clothing store founded in Nagoya, which later merged into the Matsuzakaya department store chain, as the "youth band of the Ito clothing store" ( い と う 呉 服 店 少年 音 楽 隊 , Itō Gofukuten Shōnen Ongakutai ). In 1938 the orchestra moved its headquarters to Tokyo and was initially renamed "Chūō Symphony Orchestra" ( 中央 交響 楽 団 , Chūō Kōkyō Gakudan ) and three years later, in the autumn of 1941, into “Tokyo Symphony Orchestra” ( 東京 交響 楽 団 , Tōkyō Kōkyō Gakudan ) . After the practice rooms burned down in the course of the air raids on Tokyo , the orchestra only resumed its operations under its current name after the end of the war and gave its first concert in 1948. In 1973 it was played abroad for the first time, in various locations in Southeast Asia (Manila, Taiwan, etc.). Then in 1984 a concert tour took the orchestra through Europe for the first time with 28 performances in seven countries. In 2001 the orchestra merged with the "Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra" ( 新星 日本 交響 楽 団 , Shinsei Nihon Kōkyō Gakudan ) and the Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun became the orchestra's musical advisor. Dan Ettinger has been the permanent conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra since 2010 .
Selection of former conductors
- Manfred Gurlitt , who came to Japan via Vienna and Berlin in 1939 and with the orchestra, still under the name Sinfonieorchester Chūō, a. a. Premiered operas such as Aida , Lohengrin and Tannhauser in Japan.
- 1961–1963 Ōmachi Yōichirō
- 1974-1991 Otaka Tadaaki
- 1992-2000 Ōno Kazushi
Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra:
- 1977-1991 Yamada Kazuo
- 1993–1999 Ondrej Lenárd
- 1999-2001 Pascal Verro
Web links
- Tokyo Philharmonic. Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, 2013, accessed December 6, 2014 (English, website of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra).
Individual evidence
- ^ Conductor Profile. Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, 2013, accessed December 12, 2014 .