Yutaka Sado
Yutaka Sado (Japanese佐渡 裕, Yutaka Sado, born May 13 1961 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture) is one of the most famous Japanese conductor and since 1993 chief conductor of the Orchestre Lamoureux.
Life
Sado studied at the Kyoto - Shiritsu Daigaku Geijutsu in his hometown first flute music and completed his formal training with distinction. During his studies he was awarded a place at the prestigious Kansai Nikikai Opera Company in Osaka. There he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra. In 1987, he traveled to the United States to participate in the annual Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. The present also world-renowned conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa were quickly noticed him and it developed an intense exchange. After returning to Japan Sado worked as an assistant Ozawa and made his official debut as a conductor on the big stage with a series of symphonies by Joseph Haydn in the New Japan Philharmonic. Subsequently, he worked with Charles Dutoit and Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, but felt inspired by the work of Bernstein, whom he accompanied for this reason in 1988 as an assistant on a tour with the Orchestra of the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival in Germany and the Soviet Union most. Two years later supported Sado 1990 Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the construction of the first Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, where he participated as a solid conductor, and in later years as a guest.
In October 1993 he was appointed as the successor of Valentin Kojin chief conductor of the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris. Since 1999, Sado directs the Symphony Hall of Osaka, an annual concert where the 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is played. Soloists and orchestra ( the Century Orchestra Osaka ) are professional musicians. The up to 10,000 spectators but singing the Chorparitien the symphony cantata in the last sentence, are laymen. In 2005, one Yutaka Sado also appointed music director and artistic director of the new Hyogo Performing Arts Centre ( HPAC, engl. For Hyōgokenritsu geijutsu bunka Senta, "Art and Culture of Hyōgo Prefecture " ) in Nishinomiya and chief conductor of the accompanying orchestra. He had previously built up with both institutions. The HPAC stands as a symbolic sign of rebuilding the region after the devastating earthquake in Kobe in 1995. Sado opened the house with a celebratory concert. As a guest conductor he has been available, among others, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic and the Philharmonic Hamburg before.