Joji Hattori

Joji Hattori (Japanese服 部 譲 二, Joji Hattori, born January 21, 1969 in Tokyo) is a Japanese violinist and conductor.

Training

Joji Hattori was born in Japan, but spent his childhood in Vienna, where regular operas and concerts as well as house music evenings with leading Viennese formed his musical development. His first violin lessons received Joji Hattori at the age of five years, later he continued his studies at the Vienna Music Academy under Rainer Küchl. In addition, Hattori at Yehudi Menuhin, Michel Schwalbé and Vladimir Spivakov studied.

In 1989 he won the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in England.

In both cultures and anchored to the origin of his musical career in chamber music, he is now one of the few musicians of Asian origin, which are recognized internationally as interpreters of the Viennese Classicism.

Life

He was selected in the first Maazel - Vilar Conducting Competition (New York) among 362 candidates to conduct a debut concert with the St. Luke Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 2002. He received the Lincoln Maazel Fellowship Award and was promoted as a conductor from this point of Lorin Maazel. After a decade of his solo career, he moved on to the now conducting.

His opera debut (2004) at the Vienna Chamber Opera, La Finta Giardiniera with Mozart was unanimously praised by all the major newspapers in Vienna. His Japan premiere of Leoncavallo's Zaza at the New National Theatre in Tokyo led to a return invitation to a production of The Magic Flute open the Mozart anniversary year 2006, Japan's first Opera House.

Since 2004, Joji Hattori works regularly with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Associate Guest Conductor he is. From 2007 to 2008 he worked at the Theater Erfurt as first Kapellmeister. In the summer of 2009, he took over the artistic direction of the summer festivals Kittsee. In June 2009, Hattori debuted at the Vienna State Opera with three performances of Die Zauberflöte. Joji Hattori is also Artistic Director of the Tokyo Ensemble, a project-based chamber orchestra in Japan, which he founded in 2001.

As a guest conductor he has run many leading orchestras, including the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Vienna Symphony, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra or Japan and works with renowned soloists such as Maria João Pires, her somewhat or Sarah Chang.

Joji Hattori is President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and has held a visiting professorship at the Royal Academy London, where he was made ​​an honorary member in 2003. In addition, he studied sociology at the University of Oxford ( St. Antony College). Hattori lives in Vienna.

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