Name: Seiji Ozawa.
Gender: male
Place of birth: Japan
Birthday: 1935 September 1
Among the famous conductors in the 20th century, Japanese Seiji Ozawa, Indian Meta and Singaporean Zhu Hui were known as "the world's three great eastern conductors". Among them, Seiji Ozawa is lucky. He is a true disciple of three command masters in the 20th century: Mingxi, karajan and Bernstein. Now he is called "New karajan".
Seiji Ozawa was born in Shenyang, China on September 1935, and his family moved to Beijing the following year. When he was 6 years old (194 1), he returned to Tokyo, Japan with his parents. Seiji Ozawa wanted to be a pianist when he was a child, and he began to learn piano at the age of seven. His tutor was Feng Zengsheng 16. 10000060705, a famous Japanese pianist. I majored in composition, and Mingxi happened to lead Boston Symphony Orchestra on a tour in Japan. He was very excited after seeing it and determined to be a conductor, so he turned to be a conductor and worshipped Hideo Saito, a famous Japanese conductor. After nine years of hard study, Seiji Ozawa finally learned a set of basic command methods from this strict teacher.
Seiji Ozawa's first official public performance was Mozart's symphony conducted by NHK Symphony Orchestra during his school days, which was his budding graduation ceremony. To further enrich himself, he went to Europe at his own expense. Under the tutelage of conductor E.Bigot in Paris, by chance, Seiji Ozawa was allowed to attend the 9th International Conductor Conference held in Besancon from 65438 to 0959. Won the first prize, made a sensation in the music world and became famous overnight. Mingxi, the conductor of one of the judges, appreciated Seiji Ozawa's command ability so much that he invited him to the United States for further study. Seiji Ozawa was very happy to get another good chance to study.
The following year, Seiji Ozawa came to Boston, USA, and participated in the conducting performance of the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival. As a result, he was among the best and won the 8th sergey koussevitzky Prize. This award made him a student of Mingxi, the chief conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra. Six months later, curious Seiji Ozawa went to Berlin to find a famous teacher and won the first place in the international karajan Conductor Competition hosted by karajan. He studied with karajan for eight months. 196 1 year, Seiji Ozawa conducted the French National Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time in Paris. Bernstein took a fancy to him and asked him to be the deputy conductor of New York Philharmonic. Seiji Ozawa seized the opportunity to learn from Bernstein.
1962, Seiji Ozawa returned to China, and Seiji Ozawa, who was scheduled to be full, became the conductor of the Japanese NHK Symphony Orchestra. 1963, lavinia Park Summer Music Festival was held in Chicago, USA. Conductor G.Pretre was unable to perform due to illness, so Seiji Ozawa took the stage to conduct CSO performance, which was a great success and won a warm welcome. He was invited to be the music director and conductor of the next music festival. Since then, Seiji Ozawa has soared to become one of the most promising and talented young conductors in the international music scene. He is only 27 years old.
1964, Seiji Ozawa personally led the Japanese Tongpeng Academy String Orchestra to perform at the lavinia Park Summer Music Festival. 1964- 1965, Bernstein, the conductor of New York Philharmonic, took a short vacation due to illness, and Seiji Ozawa took his place to conduct NYPO performances at regular concerts. Very popular. During the period of 1965- 1969, he became the music director and chief conductor of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and led the orchestra to Europe and America for many times. His first performance in England was in 1964, and the orchestra was the London Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire was Oneg's play Joan of Arc at the stake, and his charming conductor won.
At the Salzburg Music Festival in 1966, Seiji Ozawa conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time, and his wonderful conductor fascinated the audience. From 1968, he is also the chief conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1970- 1976, he became the music director and chief conductor of SFSO. 1973, he also led SFSO to tour Europe, which made a sensation and became an international music celebrity. Famous orchestras all over the world compete to hire him as a conductor, and it is rare for a conductor to hold so many conductor positions in the 20th century.
It was in 1973 that Seiji Ozawa reached the climax of his command career. After Steinberg, he entered the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and signed a lifelong command contract for the first time. So far, it is the 26th year of his term, and he has become the longest-serving conductor in American bands, which is unparalleled. Besides BSO, Seiji Ozawa often conducts Berlin Philharmonic, Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, French National Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra and metropolitan opera. In addition, he is the music director and conductor of Salzburg Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and often conducts performances of Scala Opera House, vienna state opera Opera House, Paris Opera House and Royal Opera House in London. No matter how busy he is abroad, he still insists on taking time to return to Japan every year to conduct the performance of the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tanglewood Music Festival is the base camp of BSO. However, this famous music festival has only a semi-open performance venue, and the acoustic effect is not ideal. The long-awaited indoor concert hall was finally completed at the 54th anniversary of the Music Festival (1994). At the suggestion of Sony President Kazuo Dianxiong (the highest donor of the concert hall, who has the right to name it), the concert hall was named after Seiji Ozawa. Seiji Ozawa believes that in the modern command school, there are two main command methods, one is vertical and the other is horizontal. The vertical command has a clear rhythm, but the melody is not smooth. The horizontal command has a good sense of music lines, but the rhythm is not so clear. He believes that both command methods should be used.
Seiji Ozawa's art of conducting is really fascinating. When conducting, he is full of musical sense, good at integrating himself with musicians, and inspiring and driving musicians with rich musical literacy and passionate artistic feelings. This is the most prominent feature of Seiji Ozawa's conducting art. His conducting is free and easy, generous, bold and delicate, with amazing musical memory and admirable musical charm. He has strict and proper restrictions on the style, speed, timbre and rhythm of his music works, with strict layout, prominent theme, clear musical form and distinct layers. His command action is musical image, and the music generated from his colorful fingers has conquered the international music scene.
Born in China, Seiji Ozawa has deep feelings for the people of China. 1February, 976, I was invited to visit China for the first time. 1June, 978, Seiji Ozawa visited China for the second time. In Beijing, he successfully conducted the performance of the Central Orchestra for the first time. March, Seiji Ozawa, 1979. Boston Symphony Orchestra's visit to China has brought colorful symphony programs to China audience. Seiji Ozawa's outstanding conductor and musician caused a great sensation in Beijing. In the same year, Seiji Ozawa visited China for the fourth time in June 5438+February, and conducted the original Central Orchestra to play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in just one week, and achieved brilliant results in May 50438+May 0994. Seiji Ozawa visited China for the fifth time. During his visit to Shenyang, his birthplace, he conducted the Liaoning Symphony Orchestra to perform Beethoven's Overture of Egmont, He He and Chen Gang's Violin Concerto and dvorak's Ninth Symphony. Seiji Ozawa was scheduled to lead BSO to Beijing on May 12 and May 13, 1999, but it was postponed indefinitely for some reason.
Seiji Ozawa greatly appreciates and respects China's music and musicians. He has conducted and performed China's works, such as the pipa concerto Little Sisters on the Grassland, Strings, The Moon Reflected in Two Springs and The White-haired Girl.
Seiji Ozawa has received many degrees, including Honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of San Francisco, Honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Massachusetts, Honorary Doctor of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music and Norton Wheaton College.
Seiji Ozawa's repertoire is very extensive and all-encompassing, and he can conduct anything from ancient times to modern times, which is his outstanding feature. Among them, the large-scale works of late romantic music school and early modern music school are particularly outstanding. His CDs are numerous and scattered among 65,438+00 record companies. Generally speaking, Seiji Ozawa's musical tendency is eclectic, and it is difficult to distinguish its type, image, characteristics and expressive force only by one or two CDs.
His representative CDs include: Bartok's Orchestral Concerto, BSO Bizet, Carmen, FNO· Brahms, Complete Symphony, Sko Mahler, Complete Symphony, Brownie's Song by BSO Orff, One Thousand and One Nights by BPO rimsky-Kosakov, Night of Sublimation by BPO Schoenberg, Violin Concerto by Sko sibelius, etc. King Oedipus by Vinsky, The Return of the Prodigal Son, SKO Bamboo Cannon (T. Takemitsu), Footsteps in October of 65438+, SKO (produced by Philips above), Violin Concerto by Berger, Joan of Arc at the stake by SON Oneg, FNO·. Piano Concerto No.2 Son Offenbach's The Story of Hoffman FNO· Planck's Glorious Sutra, Complete Symphony in Memory of the Virgin prokofiev BSO Shostakovich's Second Violin Concerto BSO Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Swan Lake BSO (above DG) prokofiev Piano Concerto (left) Analysis of BSO Schnittke's Second Cello Concerto (above Tusoni) Rez BSO Frey Requiem BSO Rachmaninov Requiem No.3 erato Concerto BSO Peter ilych Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky yevgeny onegin BSO (produced by BMG/RCA above) dvorak Cello Concerto and Cello and Orchestra Concerto.