HIROSHIMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
楽団紹介
Profile
| HIROSHIMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | |||
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| Music Director | Christian Arming | Conductor Laureate | Tatsuya Shimono |
| Honorary Founding Conductor | Kazuyoshi AKIYAMA | Music Advisor | Tsugio Tokunaga |
| Music Partner | Volkhard Steude | Conposer in Residence | Toshio Hosokawa |
| Honorary Founding Conductor | Martha Argerich | ||
| Honorary Founding Conductor | Kazukiyo Inoue | Honorary Music Director | Akeo Watanabe |
| Special Guest Concertmaster | Kyoko Shikata | Principle Guest Concert master | Ryo Mikami |
| Concertmaster | Chihiro Kitada | Concertmaster | Rumi Kurakawa |
- Christian Arming / Music Director
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Christian Arming is one of Austria’s most sought after conductors, highly successful in both symphonic and operatic fields. Music Director of the Liege Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011 to 2019, he previously held the same post at the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, at the Lucerne Theatre and Symphony Orchestra and earlier was Chief Conductor of the Janáček Philharmonic in Ostrava. From April 2024, he started his tenure as Music Director of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra following 5 years of successful collaboration as Principal Guest Conductor.
He has conducted many top European and American orchestras, such as Czech Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Boston and Cincinnati Symphonies, and regularly invited to Asia.
Christian Arming’s work has also won many supporters in the operatic world since 1997 when he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival. With the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, he presented Dvořák’s Spectres Bride in 2018. He also conducted Pelléas et Mélisande, Léonore, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Giani Schicchi, Salomé, Eine florentinische Tragödie, Lohengrin and Die Fledermaus.
Christian Arming has a varied discography including works by Janáček, Schubert, Brahms and Mahler. In 2018, his first recording for Deutsche Grammophon was launched.
Christian Arming was born in Vienna and studied conducting under Leopold Hager at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Seiji Ozawa had also been a mentor and strong supporter of his career, introducing him to Boston and Tokyo.
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