Conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka has been named the 15th recipient of the Akio Watanabe Music Foundation award for 2007. Mr. Kamioka has become a highly recognizable presence in Germany, where he is conducting more than twenty of that country's orchestras. He has been music director for the city of Wuppertal in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since the 2004/05 season. In Japan, where he is considered today's most promising young conductor, he has won extensive praise for a very distinctive and emotionally driven musical style as a guest conductor for the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
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He is scheduled to bring the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra to Japan in October, 2007, for a concert that will be regarded as a triumphant return home.
The Akio Watanabe Music Foundation's 2007 awards also include a special award for Mr. Shoji Onodera, the general manager of the Osaka Phil, in recognition of his long years of meritorious service and contributions to the field of orchestral management.
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| 2007 Akio Watanabe Music Foundation Music Award |
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Conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka |
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Special awards were given to Shoji Onodera for the consistently high level of his contributions to the Osaka Phil as well as the profession of orchestral management, and to the Japan Phil Kyushu Concert Liaison Conference for the quality of its activities. |
Upcoming concerts by Toshiyuki Kamioka with the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra:
Conductor/piano: Toshiyuki Kamioka
October 10, 2007 (Wed) 19:00 Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
October 11, 2007 (Thu) 19:00 Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
October 13, 2007 (Sat) 14:00 Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall
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Programs:
October 10 |
| Richard Strauss |
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Tone poem: "Don Juan" Op.20 |
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Piano Concerto No. 21 in C-Major K.467 |
| Beethoven |
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Symphony No. 5 in C-minor, "Fate" |
| October 11 |
| Mozart |
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Overture: "Don Giovanni" |
| Mozart |
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Piano Concerto No. 23 in A-Major K.488 |
| Tchaikovsky |
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Symphony No. 6 in B-minor, "Pathetique" |
| October 13 |
| Mozart |
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Piano Concerto No. 23 in A-Major K.488 |
| Bruckner |
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Symphony No. 7 in E-Major (Haas edition) |
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classic NEWS: July 31, 2007 |
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