Seiji Ozawa

Seiji Ozawa is a Leader Japan board, born on September 1st 1935 with Shenyang (China).

Its life

He studies the Western classical music at the Toho music school of Tokyo. Then it leaves for Europe where he gains first price of Contest of Besancon in 1959, which is worth to him to be noticed by Charles Münch which invites it to direct the Symphony orchestra of Boston in Tanglewood, orchestrates of which he will become the musical director lasting nearly thirty years, of 1973 to 2002. He studies in Berlin with Herbert von Karajan. He was director of the Festival of Ravinia (1964-68), of the Symphony orchestra of Toronto (1965-69) and of the Symphony orchestra of San Francisco (1970-76). He directs also many prestigious orchestras such as the Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin, Vienna, of London, the National orchestra of France or the Symphony orchestra of Chicago. He gave in creation of many works of which the opera Saint-François d' Assise of Olivier Messiaen in 1983 but also of the partitions of its Japanese compatriots, inter alia Toru Takemitsu. Always by attachment for its country of origin, Seiji Ozawa founds the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, then in 1984 the International Orchestre Saito Kinen composed Japanese instrumentalists pertaining to Western orchestras which meet every summer since 1992 with the international festival Saito Kinen with Matsumoto. In 2002, it took the direction of the Opéra of Vienna until 2010. In 2003, it founds the Tokyo Opera Nomori, first lyric company of Japan.

In 2004, It off founds International Music Academy Switzerland of which he is the director. This Academy with nonlucrative goal is opened to the young musicians in order to teach the practice of the chamber music and the exercise of the orchestral form to them.

In 1999, John Williams composes For Seiji for its 25e birthday with the head of the Symphony orchestra of Boston.

The same year it receives the chivalric insignia of the Légion of honor for its support for the French music and its work for the national Opéra of Paris.

Its repertory

The very impressive repertory of Seji Ozawa extends from the Baroque music to contemporary creations. Among the type-setters of which it directed works one finds:
Jean-Sebastien Bach, Samuel To bore, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Hector Berlioz, Leonard Bernstein, Georges Bizet, Alexandre Borodine, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, max Bruch, Anton Bruckner, Ferruccio Busoni, Dmitri Chostakovitch, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, Claude Debussy, Henri Dutilleux, Antonin Dvorak, Manual of Falla, Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Georges Gershwin, Umberto Giordano, Elliot Goldenthal, Charles Gounod, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Charles Tomlinson Claws, Joseph Haydn, Joseph Hellmesberger, Gustav Holst, Arthur Honegger, Maki Ishii, Charles Ives, Leos Janacek, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Earl Kim, Edouard Lalo, Peter Lieberson, György Ligeti, Franz Liszt, Witold Lutosławski, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Modest Moussorgski, Norbert Moret, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Carl Orff, Andrzej Panufnik, Francis Poulenc, Sergueï Prokofiev, Sergueï Vassilievitch Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel, Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov, Ottorino Respighi, Russo William, Camille Saint-Saëns, Pablo de Sarasate, Roger Sessions, Alfred Schnittke, Arnold Schönberg, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius, Robert Starer, Josef Strauss, Johann Strauss father, Johann Strauss wire, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinski, Toru Takemitsu, Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, Anton Webern, Henryk Wieniawski, John Williams, Olly Wilson, Hugo Wolf, Iannis Xenakis…

External bonds

Radio France: Seiji Osawa
Sony Classical: Seiji Osawa
International Music Academy off Switzerland: IMAS

Random links: