Hirofumi Yoshida

Hirofumi Yoshida (Japanese吉田 裕 史, Hirofumi Yoshida, * 1968 in Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese conductor. He currently lives in Italy.

Training

His father Toru comes from Tokyo, his mother Ayako from Hokkaidō. Yoshida visited the Konodai high school, he pursued his passion and enrolled at the Tokyo College of Music. He specialized in piano with Yukiko Okafuji on bass with Mitsuru Onozaki on musicology with Reiko Arima and Tomiko Kojiba and conducting with Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Jun- Ichi Hirokami and Yujiro Tsuda. Between the years 1994 and 1995 he moved to Vienna and received a master's degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Hans Graf and Julius Kalmar. In 1996 he was awarded the Advanced Music Master at the Conservatory of Chigiana in Siena with Yuri Temirkanov and Myung- Whun Chung.

Career

Between 1994 and 1999, the career of Maestro Yoshida began thanks to the collaboration with the conductor of the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre, where he mainly the operas of Mozart, such as The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute and Cosi fan tutte conducted.

In 1999, he won a state scholarship to acquire experience in the field of opera. Sent by the agency of culture, he came up with the status of an artist and researcher to Europe. The scholarship allowed him to attend three theaters of international fame: the Malmö Music Teater in Sweden, the National Theatre Mannheim and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

In 2001, two years later, he participated in the " International Competition for Conductors Maazel - Vilar " as an Asian candidate part. 2002 Yoshida was the first conductor who got the prize for young talent in the field of Lyric Opera at the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award. In 2003, he won a second scholarship from the Foundation " Rohm Music Foundation ", in order to deepen the Italian texts in Rome on Rome's Opera House and the theater san. He was also invited as guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra Adygeyan Republic in Russia.

In 2004, he was first employed as artistic director at the opera of Ichikawa. Thanks to the third place in the " Béla Bartók Memorial International Opera Conducting Competition", organized for the first time, he made his debut in 2005 with Puccini's Tosca in Europe. The debut sat down at the opera house of Rome with Cavalleria Rusticana and Rigoletto continues. Then he worked with the Symphony Orchestra of Transylvania and the Concert Orchestra of Budapest.

In 2006 he made ​​his successful debut at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste with the corps de ballet of the Opera House Rome with Carla Fracci. He also conducted the Keio Wagner Society Orchestra at the Musikverein in Vienna and the Smetana Hall in Prague. At the same time he studied a further operas of Puccini. In the Ichikawa Opera Yoshida conducted Puccini's Edgar as 2004 premiere in Japan.

In 2007, he debuted in the summer season at the Opera House of Rome in the Baths of Caracalla and conducted Pagliacci and the ballet Romeo and Juliet under the direction of Carla Fracci, as it had previously celebrated a great success in the year. Thanks to this collaboration, the maestro had the opportunity to work with the successful director Beppe Menegatti.

In the same year, the maestro was invited by the National Theatre of Cairo, to conduct Verdi's Aida. The Taatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste invited him in the same year to conduct the opera orchestra at the ballet by Antonio Marquez, " La breve visa ". This year he conducted Tosca in the opera of Cluj- Napoca in Romania.

Thanks to the great success of the previous year at the National Theatre of Cairo Opera House Cairo invited in 2008 Yoshida, Puccini's " Madama Butterfly" to conduct what was the cultural relations of its Japanese roots and history, who wanted to evoke Puccini owed ​​. It was also the year of La Traviata by Verdi in Paris, The Marriage of Figaro in Tokyo and the Japanese version of some important scenes from The Tale of Genji by Minor Miki who were brought to Japan for the first time. The maestro also showed the European opera Don Carlos in Hong Kong, to the east.

2009 was marked by the relationship that Yoshida wanted by his mastery create the operas of Puccini between his birth and the culture of the host State. In Italy, he wore a different opera in the cultural tradition of the East, the Turandot by Puccini, at the theater Marrucino of Chieti ago to highlight the intersection between European and Oriental culture.

Other events of that year were: the choice of Yoshida as the winner of the prize "best of 2009: Behind the Scenes" of the APA Division (Asia Pacific Arts ); the presentation of The Elixir of Love by Donizetti in Ercolano with the orchestra from the San Carlo Theatre of Naples and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart in Tokyo.

2010, the Maestro had an important place in the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, the first Japanese conductor who Turandot presented together with the famous director Maurizio Scaparro. In the same year he conducted Rigoletto at the major international theaters, including the social theater Giglio di Lucca and the Theatre Maria Lisa De Coralis of Sassari. This year, Yoshida began as head of the social theater of Mantova. In addition, he made his debut in the National Opera House of Latvia with La Traviata.

Thanks to the collaboration between Yoshida and the Japanese government, together with the Piedmont Region and the Municipality of Novara, the " Japan Festival 2011 " was born. In the same year Yoshida also led the orchestra of the Theatre Carlo Felice in Genoa.

Repertoire

  • The Rose Garden, 1697
  • La serva padrona, 1733
  • The Marriage of Figaro, 1786
  • Don Giovanni, 1787
  • Così fan tutte, 1790
  • The Magic Flute, 1791
  • La sonnambula, 1831
  • L' elisir d' amore, 1832
  • Rigoletto, 1851
  • La Traviata, 1853
  • Don Carlos, 1867
  • Aida, 1871
  • The Pirates of Penzance, 1879
  • Edgar, 1989
  • Cavalleria rusticana, 1890
  • Pagliacci, 1892
  • Hansel and Gretel, 1893
  • La Bohème, 1896
  • Fedora, 1898
  • Tosca, 1900
  • Madama Butterfly, 1904
  • La Rondine, 1917
  • Suor Angelica, 1918
  • Turandot, 1926
  • Genji Monogatari, 1999
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