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| Daisuke Muranaka |
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Daisuke Muranaka, Conductor |
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| Photo © Tetsuro Goto |
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Born in Kyoto, Daisuke Muranaka began his musical career studying the piano. After graduating from university, he went to Vienna to study conducting with Prof. Karl Oesterreicher and Leopold Hager at the Vienna Musikhochschule.
In 1995, Mr. Muranaka won first prizes at the Teatro Comunale di Treviso's Toti dal Monte Opera Competition (La Bottega) and the 1st International Conducting Competition “Mario Gusella” in Pescara (Italy). These prizes led him to more engagements with such orchestras as Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce, the Veneto Philharmonic, Orchestra Toscanini, the Transilvania Symphony Orchestra and the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra. During this period a live CD recording with Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari was released to great acclaim, including a 5-star rating from the leading Italian music magazine ‘Amadeus.'
While working as assistant to Peter Maag in many Italian opera houses, between 1995 and 1998, he had the opportunity to make his operatic debut in 1996 with The Magic Flute in the Teatro Comunale di Treviso and went on to conduct Die Fledermaus and Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo. These performances led him to work with Claudio Abbado on productions of Falstaff and Cosi fan tutte at the Ferrara Musica Festival. In 2000 he was invited to conduct the anniversary concert for the Sicilian Parliament with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo in Norman Palace and was re-invited there to perform in the 2003 concert season.
Since his Tokyo debut in September 1999 with the Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra, Daisuke Muranaka has been much in demand in his home country. In 2000 he performed The Magic Flute at The National Theatre in Tokyo, for which he won the prestigious Idemitsu Award, and was re-invited to the same theatre to conduct Tosca there a year later.
As well as his opera performances, Mr. Muranaka has a wide symphonic repertoire, which he has performed with all the leading Japanese orchestras including the NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony, Kanagawa Philharmonic and Osaka Century Orchestra.
In the 2001-2002 season, Mr. Muranaka made his Mexican debut with the Aguascalientes
Symphony Orchestra as well as his Belgian debut conducting the Belgian
Radio Orchestra in a gala concert at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
The following season saw further debuts in Brazil with San Paolo National
Symphony and in England with the Hallé Orchestra.
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