Kazushi Ono
Kazushi Ōno (Japanese大野 和 士, Ōno Kazushi, born 1960 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese conductor.
Ono graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and was a student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood and Wolfgang Sawallisch and Giuseppe Patanè at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 1987 he won the first prize at the International Arturo Toscanini Competition for Conductors.
From 1990 to 1996 he was chief director of the Symphony Orchestra of Zagreb, then to 2002, music director of the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, where he performed the complete Ring Cycle by Wagner. In addition, he was Principal Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2002, he was followed by Antonio Pappano after as musical director of the Royal Belgian opera house La Monnaie. Here he led, inter alia, Strauss ' Elektra, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Britten's Peter Grimes, Wagner's Tannhauser, Aida by Verdi and Strauss ' Die Frau ohne Schatten on. From 2008 /09 Ono is required at the Opera de Lyon as Artistic Director, he is still among others guesting at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and La Scala in Milan, where he in 2008 in three concerts with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7. In May 2009, he will conduct another symphonic program there and enter in the season 2009/10 his opera debut with Shostakovich LADY MACBETH.
In addition, he acts among others as guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the RAI in Turin, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The particular interest of Ono's go to the composers of the 20th century, and he has conducted Works of Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, Wolfgang Rihm, Mauricio Kagel, Salvatore Sciarrino, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Toru Takemitsu, Toshio Hosokawa and John Adams and the Japanese premieres of Hans Werner Henze's Eighth and Ninth Symphony. He also conducted the world premieres of works by Luca Francesconi Ballatta, Toshio Hosokawa's Hanjo Philippe Boesman ' Julie.