Date / Place

2018/10/7 [Sun] at 14:00
Kioi Hall
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Major oboe manufacturers’ products on exhibition at lobby until 13:30.
（Concert ticket required, instrument try-outs available）

Artist

◆Prize winners at THE 12th INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF
JAPAN in Tokyo

Yuka Asahara[2nd Prize]

Andrey Cholokyan[3rd Prize]

Armand Djikolooum[3rd Prize]

Saran Bae[Honorable Mention]

 

◆Jury members of THE 12th INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN in Tokyo
Hansjörg SCHELLENBERGER, Conduct and Oboe
Maurice BOURGUE, Oboe
Ken-ichi FURUBE, Oboe
Gordon HUNT, Oboe
Yoshiaki OBATA, Oboe
Dwight PARRY, Oboe
Masaru YOSHIDA, Basoon

◆Special guest
Kanami ARAKI, Oboe
Winner of First Prize [Ohga Award] at The 11th INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN in Karuizawa

◆From QUARTET EXCELSIOR
Yuka NISHINO, Violin
Yukiko YOSHIDA, Viola
Hajime OTOMO, Cello

◆Masako EGUCHI, Piano
◆Akiko KUWAGATA, Harpsichord

◆Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Program

Pasculli: Simpatici ricordi della Traviata di G.Verdi
Kanami Araki（Ob.）and Masako Eguchi（Pf.）
Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata op.166
Dwight Parry（Ob.）and Masako Eguchi（Pf.）
Couperin: excerpts from “L’Apotheose de Lulli”

• Essai en forme d’Ouverture – Air léger, Lulli joüant le sujet, e Corelli l’acompagnant – Second Air, Corelli joüant le subjet à son tour, que Lulli acompagne – LA PAIX DU PARNASSE, Sonade en Trio

Maurice Bourugue（Ob.）, Gordon Hunt（Ob.）, Masaru Yoshida（Fg.）,Masahiko Sugawara（Cb.）, Akiko Kuwagata（Cem.）
Telemann: Overture in C major TWV 55:C6（Ⅰ〜Ⅳ）
Hansjörg Schellenberger（Ob. and Cond.）, Ken-ichi Furube（Ob.）, Yoshiaki Obata（Ob.）, Masaru Yoshida（Fg.）, AkikoKuwagata（Cem.）and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Hosokawa: Spell-Song for oboe solo,

Commissioned by Sony Music Foundation for “THE 11th INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN in Karuizawa”
Saran Bae [Honorable Mention]（Ob.）
R. Schumann: 5 Stücke im Volkston op.102 II. Langsam & IV.  Nicht zu rasch
Armand Djikolooum[3rd Prize]（Ob.）, Masako Eguchi（Pf.）
Telemann: Overture in C major TWV 55:C6（Ⅴ〜Ⅷ）
Hansjörg Schellenberger（Cond.）, Maurice Bourgue（Ob.）, Gordon Hunt（Ob.）, Dwight Parry（Ob.）, Masaru Yoshida（Fg.）, Akiko Kuwagata（Cem.）and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major K. 370
Andrey Cholokyan[3rd Prize]（Ob.）, QUARTET EXCELSIOR（String trio）
R. Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D major
Yuka Asahara[2nd Prize]（Ob.）, Hansjörg Schellenberger（Cond.）, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

*The program and players are subject to change.

Ticket Information

【All seats reserved, tax included and admission not allowed for pre-school children】

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Presented by

Sony Music Foundation

Supported by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan/ International Double Reed Society/
Japan Oboe Association/ Chiyoda City /Nikkei Inc. /BS TV TOKYO Corporation

With the cooperation of

Sony Corporation

In collaboration with

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra/ Buffet Crampon Japan Limited/ Churauto Kobo Josef Co., Ltd./ Musical Instruments Shop DAC/ Dolce Musical Instruments co.,ltd./ Japan Double-Reed Inc./ NONAKA BOEKI Co., Ltd./ YAMAHA MUSIC JAPAN CO., LTD.

Profile

• Hansjörg SCHELLENBERGER

  Conduct and Oboe

  

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  Hansjörg Schellenberger was born in 1948 and raised by parents who were ardent music lovers, thus, he became keenly interested in music at an early age. He started playing the oboe at the age of 13 and then studied oboe, conducting, and mathematics in Munich and Detmold.

  After winning prizes in major music competitions, including the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Mr. Schellenberger became oboist of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne in 1971 and held the post of solo oboist from 1975 through 1980. In 1977, he began working as a substitute at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan and then served as solo oboist from January 1980 through summer 2001. After he left the orchestra, he remained active musically, mainly as a conductor, soloist, and educator.

  As a soloist, Mr. Schellenberger has performed with prominent conductors like Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, and many others. As a chamber musician, Mr. Schellenberger has developed diverse activities, mostly with Ensemble Wien-Berlin. In 1991, he founded Haydn Ensemble Berlin and served as its music director.

  Mr. Schellenberger started to seriously pursue his career as a conductor in 1994. He has been invited to conduct orchestras in Europe and throughout the world. In autumn 2012 and 2016, he toured Japan leading Camerata Salzburg; both tours were highly acclaimed. Mr. Schellenberger has been chief conductor of the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013 and jury chairman of the International Oboe Competition of Japan since 1994. The International Oboe Competition is held every three years and marked its 11th competition in 2015. He is also a professor at the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid.

• Maurice BOURGUE

  Oboe

  

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  Maurice Bourgue is unquestionably one of the finest oboists in the world today. He won the first prize in the International Wind Competition in Birmingham, followed by a series of first prizes in Munich, Prague, and Budapest. Subsequently, he landed the position of solo oboist of the Basel Orchestra and was later chosen by Charles Munch to become the solo oboist of Orchestre de Paris.

  His career as a soloist has brought him to major concert halls all over the world. He has played with I Musici, London Symphony, the Concertgebow, and the Bayerische Rundfunk to name a few, with conductors such as Abbado, Barenboim, Chailly etc.

  In 2011, He formed “Trio Maurice Bourgue” with Sergio Azzolini on bassoon and Kimiko Imani on piano.

  Maurice Bourgue also began to explore the world of conducting and has conducted many orchestras since.

  Over his entire career Maurice Bourgue has been very active in teaching. Besides his permanent positions at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, he gives master classes around the world where many oboists follow his masterly guidance.

  Maurice Bourgue has recorded for EMI, Decca, DGG, Calliope, Nippon Columbia, ECM, and has received several Grand Prix de L’academie Charles Gros.

  Recently, he also realized a recording of chamber music for Warner with top-rated musicians from Boston symphony Orchestra.

  And in 2018, he has the project to make the record of 3 concerti by Strauss, Martinu and Honneger.

  He has been a jury member of THE INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN since the 4th Competition in 1994.

• Ken-ichi FURUBE

  Oboe

  

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  While studying at Tokyo University of the Arts, Kenichi Furube was recognized by Seiji Ozawa and appointed principal oboist with the New Japan Philharmonic. He further studied under Günther Passin at the graduate school of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. In 1999, Mr. Furube became the first oboist to win the Idemitsu Music Prize.

  As a guest principal player, Mr. Furube has performed with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra (NDR Symphony Orchestra), the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with various orchestras in Japan and abroad, and also with such world-class artists as Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Rainer Küchl, Akiko Suwanai, and Daishin Kashimoto.

  Mr. Furube’s collaborations transcend genres, as he has performed concerts with Daisuke Suzuki, Katsumi Watanabe, and Makoto Ozone, to name a few. He has participated in several music festivals, including La Folle Journée au Japon, the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, the Miyazaki International Music Festival, the Kiso Music Festival, and Le Pont International Music Festival Ako & Himeji.

  Conducting since the age of 15, Mr. Furube has performed as a conductor with the Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, the Siena Wind Orchestra, and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. He currently serves as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo College of Music, Soai University, and the Toho Orchestra Academy, as well as a guest professor at Sapporo Otani University (Faculty of Music and Fine Arts). He was recently invited to give a master class by his alma mater, the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

• Gordon HUNT

  Oboe

  

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  Gordon Hunt was born in London and studied with Terence MacDonagh. He performs throughout the world as soloist and conductor, directs master classes and plays with renowned chamber ensembles. He also has a distinguished orchestral career as Principal Oboe of the London Chamber Orchestra and the World Orchestra for Peace, and formerly, Principal Oboe of the Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestras.

  Regarded as one of the world’s leading oboists, he has appeared as soloist with conductors such as Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Giulini, Kondrashin, Muti, Sir John Pritchard, Sir Simon Rattle, Sinopoli and Welser-Möst.

  Gordon Hunt has recorded a wide range of music for BMG, EMI, BIS and Virgin, including all of Mozart’s solo music. His recording of the R.Strauss Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Ashkenazy (Decca) was named the finest available by the Penguin CD Guide.

  As a conductor, he is becoming widely known. He has been Music Director of the Danish Chamber Players and the Swedish Chamber Winds.

  He has conducted many orchestras such as the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa,Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Southbank Sinfonia in London, to name a few. In recent years, he has conducted in Georgia, New Zealand, Brazil, the UK and the USA, with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York, and the Redlands Symphony in California.

  Gordon Hunt is Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. He has been a member of the jury for “THE INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN” since 1997. In 2010 he was designated a UNESCO Artist for Peace.

  Gordon Hunt plays an LXV oboe made by Howarth of London.

• Yoshiaki OBATA

  Oboe

  

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  Yoshiaki Obata graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), after which he completed the master course at its graduate school. While at school, he won third prize in the wind instrument category at the 42nd Music Competition of Japan. From 1979 to 1982, Obata was a member of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He then went to Berlin to pursue further studies. After returning to Japan, he became principal oboist with the New Japan Philharmonic. While serving as a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Obata has been enjoying extensive performing activities as soloist, chamber musician and player of early instruments.

• Dwight PARRY

  Oboe

  

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  Dwight Parry is the principal oboist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Previously, was principal oboist of the San Diego Symphony and was a New World Symphony Fellow. He has been guest principal with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera, and the Deutsche Symphonie of Berlin. Originally from coastal Southern California, he found his musical passion with piano, voice, and saxophone. It was not until late in high school, however, that he began playing the oboe. His teachers were John Mack, Allan Vogel, and David Weiss, a gentleman who also taught him to surf!

  Mr. Parry performs and teaches internationally with concertos, recitals, masterclasses, and chamber music. In recent seasons, he performed Francaix’s Flower Clock, Mozart’s Oboe Concerto, Marcello’s Oboe Concerto, and four performances of his favorite piece, Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto.

  When not holding an oboe, Mr. Parry can be found in the audience for local concerts and plays. He spends the rest of his time hiking, running, volunteering, tossing frisbees, reading and creating curiosities in the kitchen.

  Mr. Parry is a Loreé artist.

• Masaru YOSHIDA

  Basoon

  

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  After graduating from the Instrumental Music course at Musashino Academia Musicae, Masaru Yoshida enrolled in the Solo Performance class at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in 1986 and studied under Klaus Thunemann. In 1987, he joined the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (a German select student orchestra) as principal bassoonist. He also performed with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

  Mr. Yoshida graduated from the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in 1989. In the same year, he joined the Vlaamse Opera in Belgium as a principal player and also became principal bassoonist of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.

  Mr. Yoshida has been a regular member of the Miyazaki International Chamber Music Festival since 1998 and has performed annually as principal bassoonist with the Saito Kinen Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival) since 2002.

  Currently, Mr. Yoshida is a bassoonist with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, a coach at the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, a guest professor at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, and an instructor at Musashino Academia Musicae.

• Kanami ARAKI

  Oboe

  

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  Born in 1993 and bred in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, Kanami Araki took up the oboe at age nine in a brass band club.  She received an undergraduate degree from Tokyo University of the Arts with highest honors and continued to its graduate school.  To this day, she has studied oboe under Maki Sakamoto, Keiko Narita, Hitoshi Wakui, Yoshiaki Obata, Satoki Aoyama, and chamber music under Masaharu Yamamoto, Ayako Takagi, Takeshi Hidaka, and Ryosuke Tomono.

  While still in her junior year at Tokyo University of the Arts, she passed the audition to be appointed principal oboist of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, starting June 2015.  In October that year, she became the first Japanese oboist to win the First Prize (Ohga Award) at THE 11th INTERNATIONAL OBOE COMPETITION OF JAPAN 2015 in Karuizawa, as well as Mayor of Karuizawa Award (Audience Award).

  Other prizes she won include:

  ・The 7th Japan Junior Wind and Percussion Competition: Oboe (1st Prize)

  ・The 8th OSAKA International Music Competition: Woodwind (3rd Prize [highest prize] / 21st Century Artist Special Prize)

  ・The 17th Japan Classical Music Competition: Woodwind (Grand Prize)

  ・The 31st Japan Wind and Percussion Competition: Oboe (2nd Prize)

  At Tokyo University of the Arts, she won the Ataka Prize and the Postgraduate Acanthus Music Award.  She was an Aoyama Music Foundation Scholar in FY2015 and won the 27th annual Idemitsu Music Award in 2016.

• Yuka NISHINO (violin), Yukiko YOSHIDA (viola) and Hajime OTOMO (cello)
  From The Quartet Excelsior

  

  Yuka NISHINO (violin)

  

  Yukiko YOSHIDA (viola)

  

  Hajime OTOMO (cello)

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  Praised at their German debut as “exquisite and delicate like a gold-and-silver workmanship” (as described by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine), The Quartet Excelsior is one of the few permanent string quartet in Japan, that gives more than seventy concerts a year. They perform across Japan with four concert series under their belt, namely the regular concert series of classic repertoire centering on Beethoven, the “Lab. Excelsior” project that sheds light on modern pieces from the 20th Century and beyond, “Traveling of String Quartet” a popular series of best-of selection, and “Quartet Weekend”, a joint series with next-generation string quartets. The Quartet is also committed to widening the audience for chamber music, and have been accumulating overseas concert experiences such as in the US, Europe, and Asia. Award-winning highlights include the 5th Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition, the “Fresh Artist Award” at the 19th Shin-Nittetsu Fresh Artist Prize, and the 16th Hotel Okura Music Award. In 2016, they became the first Japanese group to, with Suntory Hall as the organizer, complete the 16 string quartet cycles by Beethoven in two weeks. Until June that year, they had been a part of the teaching faculty of “Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy” for six years, and they continue to teach younger people.

  In April 2017, Quartet Excelsior was appointed Residential Artists of Urayasu Concert Hall, where they plan and perform a series of concerts and workshops.

• Masako EGUCHI

  Piano

  

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  Masako Eguchi graduated from the piano department of the Senzoku Gakuen Academy of Music and its graduate school. While in school, she received a scholarship to further study at the Ferenc Liszt University of Music in Hungary. Eguchi then obtained a teaching position as Korrepetitor at the same school and won prizes as the best accompanist at various wind music competitions in Hungary. She moved to Germany in 2004, where she was offered a post at the State Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Because her work as Korrepetitor has earned such high praise from several different people, Eguchi not only teaches at music colleges in Stuttgart, but also in Köln, Mainz, and Basel. She has worked with distinguished professors Ingo Goritzki, Christian Wetzel, Emanuel Abbuehl and Christian Schmitt in their classes.

  As a chamber music player, Eguchi has performed in a number of concerts, including a “Lunchtime Concert2” on BBC Radio (UK), chamber music concerts on SWR Radio (Germany) and Bartók Rádió (Hungary), and the Beethoven Festival Bonn (Germany). She has performed with many well-known musicians.

  Eguchi often performs with Philippe Tondre (the second prize winner at the 9th International Oboe Competition in Karuizawa, Japan), one of her chamber music partners, and their chamber music concert at the Beethoven Festival Bonn won the Beethoven Ring Prize in 2012.

  She is an official accompanist for the ARD Munich International Music Competition and the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition. She serves as an official accompanist for many orchestra auditions, as well.

• Akiko KUWAGATA

  Harpsichord

  

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  Born in Tokyo, Akiko Kuwagata completed Music High School associated with the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts (Composition Course). Halfway through her studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, she attended the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Harpsichord Course) on a DAAD scholarship granted by the German government and obtained Dimplom-Konzertexamen. She later moved to Paris and taught at Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise CRR and Conservatoire de Musique de Chaumont, while concertizing throughout various cities in Europe.
  As an overseas trainee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, she furthered her harpsichord and organ study in Italy and Spain. In addition to winning the second prize (no first prize) at the 8th Bruges International Harpsichord Competition Musica Antiqua, she was a runner-up at various competitions such as the FEP Paris International Harpsichord Competition and the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition.
  Kuwagata returned to Japan in 2000 after residing in Europe for 17 years, and her work in Tokyo and elsewhere has been multifaceted, giving countless seminars on early music temperament and style. She studied harpsichord under Kenneth Gilbert, Rinaldo Alessandrini, the late Waldemar Döling, and she studied organ under Odile Bailleux and Jose Luis Gonzalez Uriol. Presently, she is a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and a lecturer at the Harmony Hall in Matsumoto. She was a jury member at the Yamanashi Baroque Music Competition in 1997, 2003, and 2007. Solo album FROBERGER, J.J.: Partitas Nos. 1-6 (Meditation – Froberger’s Vision) was released from “Tree” label under Dream Window in December 2007, which is now available worldwide digitally on high-resolution audio.

• Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

  

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  In 2011, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 100th anniversary as Japan’s first symphony orchestra. With about 130 musicians, TPO performs both symphonies and operas regularly. TPO is proud to have appointed Maestro Myung-Whun Chung, who has been conducting TPO since 2001, as Honorary Music Director, Maestro Andrea Battistoni as Chief Conductor and Maestro Mikhail Pletnev as Special Guest Conductor.
  TPO has established its world-class reputation through its subscription concert series, regular opera and ballet assignments at the New National Theatre, and a full, ever in-demand agenda around Japan and the world, including broadcasting with NHK Broadcasting Corporation, various educational programs, and tours abroad. In March, 2014, TPO became a global sensation in its centennial world tour of six major cities: New York, Madrid, Paris, London, Singapore and Bangkok. In December 2015, TPO held Beethoven’s 9th symphony concerts in Seoul and Tokyo with Mastro Myung-Whun Chung, with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra combined into one orchestra. TPO has partnerships with Bunkamura Orchard Hall, the Bunkyo Ward in Tokyo, Chiba City, Karuizawa Cho in Nagano and Nagaoka City in Niigata.Website (English) / Facebook / Twitter