MAESTROS IN CENTURY ORCHESTRA OSAKA
MAESTROS IN CENTURY ORCHESTRA OSAKA
Urlel
Segal begins his sixth season as Chief Conductor of Japan` s Century Orchestra
Osaka in the 1994/1995 season. He also begins his sixth season as Music
Director of the Chautauqua Symphony in 94/95. Previous positions include
the Principal Conductorship of the Philharmonia Hungarica as well as the
Bournemouth Symphony and Music Director of the israel Chamber Orchestra.
Mr. Segal was born in Jerusalem in 1944 and studied music in
Israel and in London. His conducting career was launched by winning First
Prize at the Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in New York
in January 1969,which was followed by a year with the New York Philharmonic
as Assistant Conductor and invitations for guest engagements.
In 1970, Mr. Segal settled in London where he lived until moving
back to Jerusalem in 1979. He has appeared in the United Kingdom with all
the major British orchestras. His most recent guest engagements in England
were the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony and the Philharmonia.
Uriel Segal conducts extensively in Germany, and has had a regular
commitment to the Stuttgart Radio SSYMPHONY Orchestra since 1972. His work
with the Philharmonia Hungarica included many foreign tours, taking the
orchestra to such places as Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France,
the U.K., Scandinavia and the Far East.
Mr. Segal's other major European appearances have included concerts
with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Royal
Concertgebouw, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra,
Hamburg Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de Lyon, Nouvel Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France and Rome's Santa cecillia, to name a few.
He has also conducted operatic productions with companies that include
the Nice Opera, the Genoa Opera and the New Israeli Opera.
In North America, he has conducted orchestras that include the
Houston Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,the
Dallas Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Rochester Philharmoic,the
Vancouver Symphony, Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Colorado
Symphony, to name a few.
Uriel Segal's recordings include a Stravinsky orchestra album with
the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for Decca in London, as well as cllaborations
with Firkusny, Lupu, Achkenazy, and de Larrocha for the same label.
His recording of Mahler's Fourth Symphony with the New Zealand Symphony
Orchetra was released by EMl, as was his recording of music by Britten
with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has also recorded with the Century
Orchestra Osaka.
Uriel Segal is managed by Shaw Concerts, Inc.
Chief
Conductor Ken TakaSeki was born in Tokyo in I 955,Ken Takaseki graduated
from Toho Gakuen High School and enrolled in the Toho Gakuen School of
music. He won the Karajan Conducting Competition in 1977 while still at
university.
After graduating from university he studied at the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra Academy (Karajan Foundation) at the invitation of H. von Karajan
and worked as his assistant until 1985. He also studied under Hideo Saito,
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Seiji Ozawa, and Tadashi Mori, and received instruction
from Lenard Bernstein, Kurt Masur??, Andr'e Previn and lgor Markevich??.
He made his debut as a conductor in Europe with the Bergen Symphony
Orchestra of Sweden in 1981. won the Hans Swarowsky International Conducting
Competition held in Vienna in 1984 and made his debut in Japan in the following
year at the subscription concert of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Takaseki served as musical director and chief conductor of
the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1990 and has been musical
director of the Gumma Symphony Orchestra since 1993 and conductor of the
Shin-Nihon Philharmonic Orchestra since 1994.
Ken Takaseki is regarded as one of the most authoritative figures
in Japan's conducting world after directing the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
in I 986 and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in 1991 . He received the Akio
Watanabe Music Foundation Music Award in 1996. And became Appointed
chief conductor of our orchestra in April I 997.
Born in Budapest as the son of a musical family, Nandor Szederkenyi
began playing violin at the age of five, studying with his father who had
been a student of the legendary Jen Hubay. At the conclusion of his
studies at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, he won the highly coveted
national Hubay Prize as top graduate which enabled him to spend some time
at the Moscow Conservatory. While in Moscow, he studied under the
guidance of Semion Snitkovsky, the associate of David Oistrakh.
During his studies, Mr. Szederkenyi gave a series of public recitals as soloist and made several radio recordings throughout Hungary. In 1979 he won the first prize at the prestigious International Szigeti Violin Competition in Budapest.
A few months later he left Hungary and was employed by the Philharmonia
Hungarica in Germany. In addition to his his work with the orchestra,
he performed as soloist throughout Europe. After coming to Canada
in 1985, he won the CBC National Radio Auditions and was heard in concert
across Canada and on radio, CBC and CJRT-FM Toronto.
In 1989 he was invited by the government of Osaka, Japan to be
principal concertmaster of the newly -founded Century Orchestra Osaka,
which, within a short time, established a reputation for excellence.
Mr. Szederkenyi performs regularly as soloist and has received praise both
from the conductors and press worldwide. His activities as performer
and teacher have taken him to Australia, Japan, North America and Europe.
A CD featuring unaccompanied works and a violin-piano CD are scheduled
for release in early 1998.
From 1995 to 1999, Nandor Szederkenyi was on faculty at the School
of Music, Brandon University, before returning to Osaka Century Orchestra.
His own Homepage (You can listen many his solo-recordings there)
Graduate
in 1978 at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and music. He became a concertmaster
of Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra while still at university just
by its foundation. Occasionally he had played as a gest-concertmaster of
Sinsei Nihon Symphony Orchestra also. Just after his Garduation of
Tokyo University of Fine Arts and music he became a concertmaster of Nagoya
Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1980 he was invited from Osaka Philharmonic
Orchestra as a concertmaster. In 1992 he became a concertmaster of Century
Orchestra Osaka. He studied Violin with Takeo Inoue, YOshio Unno,Sigeru
Toyama.
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