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| Tetsuro BAN |
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Tetsuro BAN, Conductor |
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Born in Kyoto in 1968, Tetsuro Ban began studying the piano at 4 years
old. He continued his musical training at Kyoto City University of Art,
from which he graduated with a composition degree. In 1990 he moved to
Europe to study conducting with Professor Karl Oesterreicher, Leopold Hager
and Yuji Yuasa at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Various engagements led Tetsuro Ban back to Japan where he was Assistant to Michael Tilson Thomas and Christoph Eschenbach in 1992 at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo Japan. His appointment as First Kapellmeister at the Biel Musical Theatre for the 1992/3 season, a position giving him the opportunity to further broaden his symphony and opera repertoire, meant he was soon to return to Europe.
In September 1995, Tetsuro Ban won the First Prize in the International
Conductor's Competition of Besançon, which led to international
recognition and invitations from orchestras throughout Europe as well as
re-invitations to Japan. He has conducted most of the major orchestras
in Japan, including the NHK Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, the Japan
Philharmonic, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, the Tokyo
City Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony. He is also regularly heard in
concert in France where he led the orchestras of Toulouse, Lille, Nancy
and the orchestra of the Opera de Marseille. He was invited to conduct
the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in May 1996 with great success
and in November 1997, he made his debut in the United States conducting
the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
A busy 1997/98 season saw his appointment as First Kapellmeister at the
Brandenburg Musical Theatre and further engagements in the same season
included two concerts with the Wiener Kammerorchestra (January 1998), the
premiere of Antonio Bibalo's Fraulein Julie in Potsdam (February 1998),
La Boheme with the Komische Oper Berlin (March 1998) and four performances
of Puccini's Il Tabarro at the Opera de Marseille (June 1998).
The success of La Boheme led to Mr Ban's engagement as Kapellmeister of
Komische Oper Berlin from the season of 1998/99 to 2002, where he conducted
over twenty programmes including premieres of Orpheus in the Underworld
directed by Harry Kupfer, La Fille mal Gardée choreographed by Richard
Werlock, Falstaff directed by Andreas Homoki and Rigoletto. During the
same period, he made successful debuts at the subscription concert of Alte
Oper Frankfurt in November 2000 , with Falstaff at the Volksoper Wien in
February 2002, at the Basel Theater in March 2002 and with the Tonkuenstler
Orchester at Musikverein Wien in October 2002. In 2003, he succeeded in
the premiere of "Pelléas and Mélisande" at Basel
Theater in February, made successful debuts at NHK Symphony Orchestra's
subscription concert and at the New National Theater Tokyo with The Tales
of Hoffman. In 2004 he conducted Cavallaria Rusticana/I Pagliacci at New
National Theater Tokyo and a co-production of Jenufa by Tokyo Nikikai and
the Komische Oper Berlin. After a highly acclaimed New Year concert on
January 1, 2005, he has been appointed as the general music director at
Theater Eisenach in Thüringen for the 2005-2006 season.
Mr. Ban is a recipient of the Kyoto City Art Encouragement Prize (1996), the ABC International Music Award (1997), the Kyoto City New Artist Award (2000), the Second Hotel Okura Music Award and the 12th Akio Watanabe Music Foundation Award (2004).
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