Yutaka Sado

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Yutaka Sado, 2016

Yutaka Sado ( Japanese 佐渡 裕 , Sado Yutaka ; born May 13, 1961 in Kyōto , Kyōto Prefecture ) is one of the most internationally known Japanese conductors and has been chief conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria since 2015 .

Life

Sado studied flute at the art college in his hometown and graduated with honors. While still a student, he was awarded a place at the renowned "Kansai Nikikai Opera Company" in Osaka . There he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra . In 1987 he traveled to the United States to attend the annual Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox , Massachusetts . The world-famous conductors and composers Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa , who were also present , quickly became aware of him, and an intensive exchange developed. After returning to Japan, Sado worked as Ozawa's assistant and made his official debut as a conductor on the big stage with a series of symphonies by Joseph Haydn in the New Japanese Philharmonic. He subsequently worked with Charles Dutoit and Gennadi Roschdestwenski , but felt most inspired by Bernstein's work, which he therefore accompanied in 1988 as an assistant on a tour with the orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival through Germany and the Soviet Union . The following year he won the International Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon . In 1990 Sado Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Philharmonic Orchestra helped set up the first Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo , in which he participated as a permanent conductor and in later years as a guest.

In October 1993 he was appointed chief conductor of the Orchester Lamoureux in Paris to succeed Valentin Kojin and remained in this position until 2011. Since 1999, Sado has conducted the annual concert Suntory Presents Beethoven's 9th with a Cast of in the Osaka-jo-Hall in Osaka 10000 , in which Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony is played. Soloists and orchestras are professional musicians. The up to 10,000 singers who sing the choral parts of the symphony cantata in the last movement are laypeople who have participated in rehearsals for several months. In 2005, Yutaka Sado was also appointed general music director and artistic director of the new Hyogo Performing Arts Center (HPAC, English for Hyōgokenritsu geijutsu bunka sentā , "Art and Culture Center of Hyōgo Prefecture") in Nishinomiya and chief conductor of the associated orchestra . He had previously helped set up both institutions. The HPAC stands as a symbolic sign of the rebuilding of the region after the severe earthquake in Kobe in 1995 . Sado opened the house with a gala concert. As a guest conductor he has been with the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra , the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Gürzenich- Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony , the Dresden Philharmonic and the Hamburg Philharmonic .

Since the 2015/16 season he has succeeded Andrés Orozco-Estrada as chief conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra . After only one season and a very successful tour of Japan with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, which appeared for the first time in Asia, his contract was extended prematurely until the 2024/25 season.

Yutaka Sado's wife Kimiko and daughter live in Hyogo , near Osaka.

Honors

  • 1988: “Prix Davidoff - Special Prize” from Reemtsma
  • 1989: Victory at the Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre in Besançon
  • 1995: "Grand Prix" of the Concours International L. Bernstein Jerusalem
  • 1996: "Révélation Musicale de l´Année" of the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique dramatique et musicale
  • 2015: DaCapo KlassiK Award "Conductor of the Year 2015"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yukata Sado 1993-2011. In: orchestrelamoureux.com. Retrieved May 12, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ orf.at - Japanese is the new Tonkünstler chief conductor . Article dated March 18, 2015, accessed June 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ orf.at - Sado will remain chief conductor of the Tonkünstler until 2025 . Article dated March 20, 2019, accessed March 21, 2019.
  4. ^ ORF Lower Austria - star conductor Yutaka Sado in private . Article dated June 17, 2016, accessed May 12, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sado, Yutaka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 佐渡 裕 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture