Internationally acclaimed maestro Seiji Ozawa led the BSO from 1973 to 2002, longer than any other conductor in the orchestra ...

Renowned Japanese orchestra director Kazuyoshi Akiyama has died. Akiyama passed away of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on ...

A longtime conductor and contributor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO), Akiyama died in a hospital in Japan on Jan. 26 following a fall in his home on New Year’s Day. He was 84. At the time of ...

Conductor Seiji Ozawa, who led postwar Japan’s classical music world and remained at the forefront of some of the greatest symphonies on the planet, died of heart failure on Feb. 6. He was 88.

Japanese conductor Naohisa Furusawa was really busy last weekend as the conductor for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra’s (MPO). The MPO has two resident conductors, Naohisa and Gerard ...

Nodoka Okisawa was recently appointed as the new Chief Conductor for the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra in Japan at the age of 35. She will be the first female chief conductor for the orchestra.

Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa was born on September 1st 1935, and is recognised for his interpretations of large-scale Romantic works. He’s probably best known as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s ...

Then in 1992, to rebuild the orchestra, fueled by the belief that "first-class countries have first-class orchestras," the orchestra leader invites Japanese conductor Sakura Kazuo to Vietnam to be ...

While the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra faces a threat to its survival, a Japanese conductor is chosen to save it! The story's protagonist is a young Japanese conductor, Sakura Kazuo. Following a ...

Toyama debuted as a conductor with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 1956. He went to Vienna in 1958 to study and while there he composed pieces that used traditional Japanese instruments such as the ...

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to ... than that they were privately commissioned by wealthy patrons, conductor Masaaki Suzuki and his well-honed forces lavish at least as ...