Eiji Oue
Eiji Oue (Japanese大 植 英 次, Eiji Oue, born October 3, 1957 in Hiroshima ) is a Japanese conductor.
Life
Eiji Oue was born in 1957 the son of a former samurai family. At the age of four he began to play the piano. At the age of 15, he began conducting studies with Hideo Saito at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978 he was invited by Seiji Ozawa to a summer study in the Tanglewood Music Center. Here he met his future mentor Leonard Bernstein, with whom he jointly undertook three international concert tours later. He supported Leonard Bernstein at the founding of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo in 1990 and worked there as a conductor.
He also served as chief conductor of the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra (1991-1995), Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra (1995-2002), Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming (1997-2003), chief conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (2003 -) and designated Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona ( 2006 -). In 2005 he was invited as the first Asian conductor at the Bayreuth Festival and directed a controversial performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, as a result he was replaced in 2006 by Peter Schneider.
Following a joint concert tour in 1997 Eiji Oue was for the concert season 1998/1999 bis 2008/2009 chief conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover. OUE is the initiator of the NDR music day in Hanover, held to the concerts at numerous unusual places in the city. Eiji Oue has been a professor of conducting at the Musikhochschule Hannover since 2000.