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Mr.Bin Ebisawa
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Mr. Bin Ebisawa became the new managing committee chairman of the Sendai International Music Competition on December 1.
Heretofore, Mr. Ebisawa was organizing committee vice-chairman from the
competition's inception and also served a term as a steering committee member.
Mr. Ebisawa's current official positions include director of the New National
Theatre's opera workshop (Young Artists Training Programme), president
of the Japan Mozart Research Institute, honorary member of the International Mozarteum
Foundation of Salzburg and professor emeritus at Kunitachi College of Music. He
also serves as a juror for many international music competitions.
The Third Sendai International Music Competition is scheduled in 2007. Contestant applications will be accepted until September 1, 2006.
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Born in Tokyo (Japan). Graduate of Tokyo University in aesthetics. After completing the post-graduate course at Tokyo University, Bin Ebisawa studied at Paris University. He was President and Chairman of the Board of Kunitachi College of Music, then Vice-President of the New National Theatre Tokyo, of which he is still directing the Training Programme of Singers, and President of the Japan Mozart Research Institute. Ebisawa is member of the Institute for Mozart-Research, International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, of which he is honorary member. He is also honorary member of Reale Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. Besides, he was and is involved in a wide range of organizations: former President, Musicological Society of Japan; former Head, Executive Committee of Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; President, Japanese Mozart Society; Vice Chairman, Executive Committee of the Music Competition of Japan; Chairman, Organizing Committee of Musashino International Organ Competition; Chairman of the Jury (Piano Section) of the 5th and 6th International Music Competition of Japan. He has done extensive writing especially on J.-J. Rousseau and W.A. Mozart. Among the distinctions awarded to him are Suntory Prize for Science and Art, Officier des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education, Art Prize of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, Silver Mozart Medaille of the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, Goldenes Ehrenzeichen des Landes Salzburg, NHK Cultural Award, Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse, Purple Ribbon Award for Art, Culture, and Science by the Japanese Government, Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
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