NORICHIKA IIMORI
Resident Conductor
...After graduating from Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1986, Norichika Iimori went to Berlin to continue his studies. Thereafter he received numerous International conducting competitions. In 1989 he was sent by Japan's Agency for Cultural affairs to study at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where be served as an assistant to Professor Wolfgang Sawallisch who was then the Staatsoper's music director.
...In 1994 he became the Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. The same year he gave a concert tour of Portugal with the Tokyo Symphony. On the occasion of the orchestra's 50th anniversary in 1996, he led it on a concert tour of Europe, including a performance in Munich that received adulation from a German newspaper that commented "It is likely that Iimori will become the subject of world attention." His subscription concerts with the Tokyo Symphony have included many especially memorable performances, such as Verdi's "Requiem" performed on 30th January 1999.
...Among the many top-class orchestra's to which Iimori has been invited as guest conductor are the Moscow Radio symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Koln Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He was invited to the Opening Concert of the Braunschweig Music Festival performed with the Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks (Hanover), and also invited to the Subscription Concert of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in April and May 1999. It has been decided that he will be a GMD and Principal Conductor of Wurttemberg Phiharmony (Germany) from September 2001.
...Presently, Iimori Is conductor of the Tokyo symphony Orchestra, a permanent conductor of the Osaka Opera House Orchestra, a conductor of the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.
[ CDs ]
Complete recordings of Stravinsky's "Rite of spring", "Petroushika"
and "the Firebird" with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
..."Promenade Concert" with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
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