NHK Symphony Orchestra

The NHK Symphony Orchestra (Japanese NHK NHK Kogyo Gakudan交响 楽 団) in Tokyo is a Japanese symphony orchestra. It has been called New Symphony Orchestra (新 交响 楽 団, Shin Kogyo Gakudan ) founded on October 5, 1926 and was Japan's first professional symphony orchestra, founded by Konoe Hidemaro, who headed it until 1935. Later the name was changed in Japanese Symphony Orchestra and 1951 in return for financial support from NHK in its present name. In the same year, the orchestra was awarded the Asahi Prize.

Vladimir Ashkenazy and Charles Dutoit were the music directors. Wolfgang Sawallisch was honored as " Laureatehrendirigent ".

Permanent conductor

  • Joseph King (1926-1929)
  • Konoe Hidemaro (1926-1935)
  • Nikolai Schiffer Journal (1929-1936)
  • Joseph Rosenstock (1936-1951) ( all day ); (1956-1957) ( principal conductor )
  • Hisatada Otaka (1942-1951) ( all day )
  • Kazuo Yamada (1942-1951) ( all day )
  • Shin'ichi Takata (1944-1951) ( all day )
  • Kurt Woss (1951-1954) ( principal conductor )
  • Niklaus Aeschbacher (1954-1956) ( principal conductor )
  • Loibner Wilhelm (1957-1959) ( principal conductor )
  • Schüchter Wilhelm (1959-1962) ( principal conductor )
  • Alexander Hull (1964-1965) ( principal conductor )
  • Charles Dutoit (1996-1998) ( principal conductor ); (1998-2003) ( musical director)
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy (2004-2007) ( musical director)

Honor and guest conductors

  • Joseph Rosenstock (1951-1985)
  • Lovro von Matačić (1967-1985)
  • Keilberth (1967-1968)
  • Wolfgang Sawallisch (1967-1994, 1994 - February 2013 )
  • Hiroyuki Iwaki (1969-2006)
  • Otmar Suitner (1973-2010)
  • Horst Stein (1975-2008)
  • Tadashi Mori (1979-1987)
  • Yuzo Toyama (1979 - )
  • Herbert Blomstedt (1986 - )
  • Hiroshi Wakasugi (1995-2009)
  • Charles Dutoit (2003 -)
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy (2007 -)
  • André Previn (2009 -)
  • Tadaaki Otaka (2010 -)
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