Besanon International Music Festival - Prize-Winners of the Besanon Conducting Competition, Seiji Ozawa, Osmo Vnsk, Sergiu Comissiona (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Prize-Winners of the Besanon Conducting Competition, Seiji Ozawa, Osmo Vnsk, Sergiu Comissiona, George Pehlivanian, Ali Rahbari, L Shao-Chia, Carlo Rizzi, Jess Lpez-Cobos, Luis Antonio Garca Navarro, International Besanon Competition for Young Conductors, Lan Shui, Yoel Levi, Sylvain Cambreling, Christopher Gayford, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Nicols Pasquet. Excerpt: Seiji Ozawa Ozawa Seiji, born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera. Seiji Ozawa was born on September 1, 1935 to Japanese parents in the city of Shenyang, China, while it was under Japanese occupation. When his family returned to Japan in 1944, he began studying piano with Noboru Toyomasu, heavily studying the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. After graduating from the Seijo Junior High School in 1950, Ozawa sprained his finger in a rugby game. Unable to continue studying the piano, his teacher at the Toho Gakuen School of Music (Hideo Saito), brought Ozawa to a life-changing performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, which ultimately shifted his musical focus from piano performance to conducting. Almost a decade after the sports injury, Ozawa won the first prize at the International Competition of Orchestra Conductors in Besanon, France. His success in France led to an invitation by Charles Mnch, then the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to attend the Berkshire Music Center (now the Tanglewood Music Center). In 1960, shortly after his arrival, Ozawa won the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor, Tanglewood's highest honor. Receiving... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=338770