- Kazushi Ono
is a
Japan ese conductor, born inTokyo . He studied at theTokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music , and studied withWolfgang Sawallisch and Giuseppe Patane at theBavarian State Opera ("Bayerische Staatsoper "), as a scholar of the Japanese Ministry of Culture. In 1987, he won First Prize in the 3rdToscanini International Conductors' Competition. He has conducted many other international orchestras and operas.Ono was principal conductor of the
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra from 1992 to 1999 (and is now Conductor Laureate there), and its artistic advisor from 1999 to 2001. During his tenure there, he commissioned Mark Anthony Turnage's "Silent Cities", and gave the Japanese premieres of Henze's 8th and 9th Symphonies. He was Chief Conductor of theZagreb Philharmonic Orchestra from 1990 to 1996. He is the principal conductor of theOpéra National de Lyon from the beginning of the 2008/09 season.Ono was General Music Director of the
Baden State Opera,Karlsruhe from 1996 to 2002. In August2002 , he became music director ofLa Monnaie (Brussels ), after his acclaimed debut there in March 2001, conducting Sciarrino's chamber opera "Luci mie traditrici". He successfully directed the same production at New York's Lincoln Center in July of that year. Other contemporary operas that Ono has conducted at La Monnaie includePhilippe Boesmans ' "Julie". [cite news | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1441051,00.html | title=In my lady's chamber | publisher="The Guardian" | author=James Fenton | date=19 March 2005 | accessdate=2007-09-05] . Ono will step down as music director at La Monnaie at the end of the 2007/08 season, to take up the position of principal conductor at the Opera of Lyon from the beginning of the 2008/09 season for an initial 5 year period. [cite news | url=http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=236&c=2 | title=Kazushi Ono | publisher="IMG Artists" | author= | date= 28 November 2007 | accessdate=2008-05-28] He was meant to be succeeded at La Monnaie byMark Wigglesworth , [cite news | url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4385.html | title=Mark Wigglesworth Appointed Music Director of Belgium's La Monnaie | publisher="Playbill Arts" | author=Vivien Schweitzer | date=20 April 2006 | accessdate=2007-08-29] but in April 2008 the opera house announced that Wigglesworth would not take up his post after opposition to him by the orchestra. [cite news | url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a8Rsjad5Li8g | title=Feisty Orchestra Fuels Brussels Opera Changes | work=Bloomberg News | author=Shirley Apthorp | date=10 April 2008 | accessdate=2008-05-28]References
External links
* [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=236 IMG Artists biography]
* [http://www.warnerclassics.com/artistbiography.php?artist=4168 Warner Classics biography]
* [http://www.kajimotomusic.com/artists-e/ono_kazushi-e.html Kajimoto Concert Management biography]
* [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=236&c=4 Review highlights]
* [http://www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/ono-1008.shtml Interview on MusicalCriticism.com, October 2008]
* [http://japansclassic.com/artists/kajimoto_27/kazushi_ono.html Biography from NEC]
* [http://www.pppr.net/artists/kazushi-ono.html PPPR artist information - for reviews & news about Kazushi Ono]
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