TOKYO 〓 Nodoka Okisawa won the Conducting division of the 18th Tokyo International Music Competition

2018/10/14
【最終更新日】2019/11/09

The final round of the 18th “Tokyo International Music Competition” Conducting Division was held at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall on 14th, Japan’s Nodoka Okisawa won. Second place is Kanade Yokoyama in Japan, Masaru Kumakura in third place. Fourth place is Earl Lee who lives in Canada. “Hideo Saito Award” was presented to Okizawa, “audience award” to Yokoyama.

“Tokyo International Music Competition” was founded in 1967 by Min-On Concert Association. It aims to discover and cultivate widely competent musicians, to promote and develop music cultural exchange with countries all over the world. At the time of establishment, there were three divisions of Conducting, Singing, and chamber music, but now the Conducting division is held once every three years. In the 18th session, 238 people from 42 countries-regions submitted applications, 18 subjects proceeded to the 1st preliminary round after document and video review.

This time the chairperson of the judge is Yuzo Toyama, conductor. Judges include conductor such as Junichi Hirokami, Alexandre Razarev, Tadaaki Otaka, Hubert Soudant, Ken Takaseki, former concert master of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Werner Hink, violinist Dong Suk Kang, former secretary general of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Peter Pastreich is joining.

The final round was contested by four people, and the contestants conducted orchestral music with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. Okizawa who won the championship was born in 1987. After graduating from the Conducting department at Tokyo University of the Arts, she completed Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Last year she participated in the master class of the Royal Concertgebou Orchestra.

Photo:Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting

[Reference article]Interview to Mr. Hisao Kondo, Chairperson of the Organising Committee and the Executive Managing Director of the Min-On Concert Association(English)


    Click here for details ▷


How about this ?

  1. SALZBURG 〓 Thielemann declared war

  2. NEW YORK 〓 Metropolitan Opera has launched a free streaming distribution called “Nightly Met Opera Streams” from March 16

  3. R.I.P 〓 Aaron Rosand, American Violin Player

  4. PARIS 〓 Jaap van Zweden Named Next Music Director of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

  5. R.I.P 〓 Marcello Giordani, Italian Opera singer

  6. TOKYO 〓 The New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Yutaka Sado as the next music director

  7. LOS ANGELES 〓 Domingo will challenge a new role

  8. KANAZAWA 〓 Minkowski becomes a new artistic director of orchestra ensemble Kanazawa

  9. TOKYO 〓 Tokyo Symphony Orchestra resumes concert

  10. TOKYO 〓 Anne-Sophie Mutter was awarded the 31st “Praemium Imperiale”

  11. TORONTO 〓 Pieczonka will be appointed to the top of the vocal section of the Royal Conservatory

  12. ROME 〓 Argerich was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

  13. BERLIN 〓 Berliner Philharmoniker announced programming for the 2018/2019 season

  14. WASHINGTON 〓 Philip Glass receives the Kennedy Center Honors

  15. LOS ANGELES 〓 The winners of the classical music category of the 62nd “Grammy Awards” came out

  1. No comments yet.

  1. No trackbacks yet.