Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka is the resident orchestra of Izumi Hall. The orchestra was established through a proposal by Akira Nishimura, a composer, who has programmed and supervised a series of concerts titled “New Jouney toward Future of Music”, which is intended to promote contemporary music by Izumi Hall. Since its debut on July 8, 2000, the orchestra has been appearing on stage mainly of the regular concerts and developing its repertoire, giving the first performance of several works and including classic works in its program. It comprises flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, harp, strings and percussion, which can be presented in various combinations according to the requirements of the works they play.
The performers live in or come from Kansai district(Osaka and its outskirt).
Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka received Osaka Performing Arts Prize in 2001.
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Music Director:
Akira Nishimura
Principal Conductor: Norichika Iimori
Concertmistress: Machie Oguri
Program Adviser: Motoharu Kawashima |
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Akira
Nishimura was born in Osaka 1953. He studied composition
and musical theory to post graduate level at Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1977
he won the first of his numerous later prize winnings
at the Queen Elizabeth International Music Composition
Competition with HETEROPHONY for string quartet
(1975) and the Luigi Dallapiccola Composition Award
with MUTAZIONI (1977). In 1980, KECAK (1979) was
selected as the best work at the International Rostrum
of Composers, and he won awards at the ISCM World
Music Days with ODE for EKSTASIS (1981) in 1982,
then in 1984, 1988 and 1990. The Otaka Prizes were
awarded to him in 1988 for HETEROPHONY for two pianos
and orchestra (1987), in 1992 for A RING OF LIGHTS,
double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra,
in 1993 for INTO THE LIGHTS OF THE ETERNAL CHAOS,
and in 2008 for VISION AND MANTRA. In 2001, he was
awarded the ExxonMobil Music Prize, the Suntory
Music Award in 2004 and the Mainichi Art Prize in
2005. He was composer-in-residence of the Orchestra
Ensemble Kanazawa (1993-94) and of the Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra (1994-97). In 2007, he was the featured
composer of the contemporary music festival “Composium
2007”, held by the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation
and judge of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award.
Nishimura principally employs heterophony, a characteristic
device of Asian traditional music, thereby subtly
transforming the intervals, rhythm and melody of
his dense multi-layered textures. Though similar
to 'micropolyphony' of Ligeti, an Asian perspective
informs his technique. Some works are heterophonic
melodically, such as HETEROPHONY (1975), and some
rhythmically, as in KECAK; the superimposition of
trills, tremolos and harmonics contributes to the
more complex textures of his later works.
He has been commissioned from many overseas music
festivals and ensembles such as ULTIMA Contemporary
Music Festival Oslo, Octobre en Normandie, Arditti
Quartet, Kronos Quartet, ELISION Ensemble, Hannover
Society of Contemporary Music, Wien Modern, Warsaw
Autumn, Musica (Strasbourg), Brisbane Music Festival
and so on.
He is currently a Professor at the Tokyo College
of Music and the Musical Director of the Izumi Sinfonietta
Osaka. |
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| Maestro
Iimori currently holds many important posts worldwide,
including that of Music Director for the Yamagata
Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Izumi
Symphonietta Osaka, Honorary Conductor of the Opera
House Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor
of the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra from September
2007, followed by the General Music Director tenured
from 2001 to 2006/7 season. After graduating Toho
Gakuen School of Music, Iimori served as an assistant
to Professor Wolfgang Sawallish at the Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich. He recorded a CD with the
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was highly
praised, and was named guest conductor of that orchestra
in 1994. The next year he became a regular conductor
(and was named Chief Conductor in 2001) of the Osaka
College Opera House Orchestra, and also served as
Resident Conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra
until March 2002. He led the European tour
of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 1996. Their performance
in Munich on this tour was lauded by a German newspaper
that commented, "Iimori will surely go on to
attract international attention." In 1999 he
directed the Radio Philharmony Hannover of Northern
Germany for the opening concert of the Braunschweiger
Kammermusikpodium Chamber Music Festival Braunswick.
The same year he conducted the Wurttemberg Philharmonic
and toured in Austria. Iimori has been invited to
many world-class ensembles including the Radio Symphony
Orchestra Frankfurt, the Cologne Radio Symphony
Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), the Tchaikovsky
Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, the Arthur Rubinstein
Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland, the Dortmunt Opera
Orchestra of Germany, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra
of Switzerland, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock,
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Sinfonie Orchester
Wuppertal, Philharmonie Halle and others. Iimori
made his debut concert of Mahler’s First Symphony
at a subscription concert of the NHK Symphony Orchestra
in 2003 season, and made US debut in 2005 with the
Honolulu Symphony Orchestra to great acclaim, followed
by the successful re-invitation. Maestro Iimori
was awarded "Art Encouragement Prize for Freshman
2006" by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology, for the fruitful
activities in entire fields from classical to modern,
orchestral and operatic repertoire. |
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