Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra ( Japanese 公益 財 団 法人 読 売 日本 交響 楽 団 , Kōeki Zaidan Hōjin Yomiuri Nippon Kōkyō Gakudan , short: Yomikyō ( 読 響 ), English Yomiuri Nippon Tokyo Symphony Orchestra ) is a professional Japanese symphony orchestra by 1966 the newspaper publisher Yomiuri Shimbun , the television company Nippon Terebi Hōsōmō and the Yomiuri television company ( 讀 賣 テ レ ビ 放送 ) was founded. It is a not-for-profit foundation with legal capacity and a regular member of the Japanese Orchestra Association .
The orchestra gives regular subscription concerts, including eleven concerts each year in the Suntory Hall and the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, eight concerts in the Minato-Mirai Hall in Yokohama and three concerts in the Symphony Hall in Osaka.
In 1967 the orchestra went on a foreign tour through America and Canada for the first time with the conductor Arthur Fiedler .
Conductors of the orchestra
- 1962–1963 Willis Page
- 1963–1963 Otto Matzerath (only two months from September until his death in November)
- 1972-1975 Hiroshi Wakasugi
- 1980–1983 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- 1984–1989 Heinz Rögner
- 1992-1998 Tadaaki Otaka
- 1998–2007 Gerd Albrecht
- 2007–2010 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- 2010–2019 Sylvain Cambreling
- 2019– Sebastian Weigle
Web links
- Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo. ders., accessed on March 5, 2017 (English, website of the symphony orchestra (English / Japanese)).
Individual evidence
- ^ Yawara Watanabe: Sylvain Cambreling bids farewell to the YNSO. In: Bachtrack. March 21, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Sebastian Weigle becomes chief conductor in Japan. In: Music Today. May 9, 2018 .