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National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra - About the Conductor
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| 梶間聡夫 |
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“(Kajima) touches the minds and hearts of audiences,” once the Chicago Tribune hailed him. A conductor, Fusao Kajima has been winning critical acclaim for his leadership in both artistic commitment and innovative program offerings.
Maestro Kajima’s prestige and experience now span the globe. He has conducted throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, including the symphony orchestras of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State in Russia, Vancouver Island in Canada, Shinsei Nihon in Japan, National Taiwan and Taipei Metropolitan, Pescara in Italy, Malaga in Spain, and orchestras of Belgrade Philharmonic in Serbia, Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Nordost Deutsche Philharmonie in Germany, Madrid Philharmonic in Spain, the Academic Philharmonic of Trento, Italy, David Oistrakh Music Festival Orchestra in Estonia, the Bombay Chamber in India His future guest engagements include, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Gran Teatre del Liceu Academy Orchestra.
Maestro Kajima has received high honors at some of the most prestigious international conducting competitions in the world, including the 1995 “Antonio Pedrotti,” the 1988 “Masterplayers,” and the 1985 Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Young Conductors’s Prize Competition.
Previously, he has held positions of Music Director of Bellevue Philharmonic (WA), Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra (CO), Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (IL), the Papagena Opera Company (MI), Assistant conductor of the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra (MI), Freiburger Theater, Staatstheater Darmstadt (Germany), and the Opera Company of Mid-Michigan. He has held academic position with Northern Illinois University and Georgia State University.
A native of Japan, Fusao Kajima began his piano studies at age four and his conducting studies at fourteen. An alumnus of the New England Conservatory and the University of Michigan, his teachers include Gustav Meier, Martin Katz, Veronica Jochum, and Louis Krasner. Kajima has studied at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, and Leonard Slatkin, at Chigiana with Gennady Rodhestvensky, and also in Estonia with Neeme Jarvi and Jorma Panula.
Maestro Kajima became the conductor of NTSO since August 2010. |
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