Yukio Kitahara
Yukio Kitahara ( Japanese 北 原 幸 男 , Kitahara Yukio ; * 1957 ) is a Japanese conductor and former general music director in Aachen .
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Kitahara first studied at the Tōhō-Gakuen Music Academy in Chōfu and completed his training as a conductor at the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo under Tadaaki Otaka and Kazuyoshi Akiyama. He also took master classes at Tanglewood in Berkshire County under Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein .
From 1980 to 1982 Kitahara then performed as Horst Stein's assistant with the Orchester de la Suisse Romande in Bayreuth, Vienna and Geneva. From 1982 to 1985 he was appointed deputy conductor at the Vienna Volksoper and won third prize with this orchestra at the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 1985 . He then took over the position of Kapellmeister at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck , before moving to the Theater Aachen in 1992 , where he was also appointed director of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra and was general music director from 1993 to 1996.
In the meantime, Kitahara repeatedly accepted invitations from renowned opera houses in Europe and Japan, where he appeared as a guest conductor with numerous renowned orchestras, including the Bruckner Orchester Linz , the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Budapest Symphony Orchestra , the Symphony Orchestra of the North German Radio and the Symphony Orchestra of Prague Broadcasting. In Japan it was mainly the NHK symphony orchestra, by which Kitahara was regularly invited and with which he recorded the 11th symphony by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch live on record in 1992 .
1999 returned Kitahara permanently to Japan and conducted including the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra , the Symphony Orchestra Sapporo , the Philharmonic Orchestra Osaka and the Philharmonic Orchestra Nagoya . In the following years numerous other CD recordings were made, including a live recording of Shostakovich's 5th symphony with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in September 2004 and Toshi Ichiyanagi's 5th symphony with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in the same year . In 2007 a double CD with the Double Concerto in A minor for violin, violoncello and orchestra op. 102 and the 1st Symphony by Johannes Brahms was released as a live recording from 2005 with the New Philharmonic Orchestra Japan .
Kitahara later took on an assistant professorship at the Musashino Conservatory in Tokyo Prefecture and a visiting professorship at the Elisabeth Conservatory in Hiroshima .
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| SURNAME | Kitahara, Yukio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 北 原 幸 男 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese conductor and former general music director in Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |