is a Japanese conductor.

Biography

Oue began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978,

Seiji Ozawa Seiji (written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , or in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese politician *, Japanese film directo ...

invited him to spend the summer studying at the Tanglewood Music Center. There he met

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, who became a mentor. Oue won the Tanglewood Koussevitzky Prize in 1980.Biography in "Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, suite, et al." Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, conductor. Sound recording :(RR-95CD) He also studied under Bernstein as a conducting fellow at the

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. Oue became music director of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras in 1982, a post he held until 1989. He was music director of the

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from 1990 to 1995. He has also served as associate conductor of the

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. From 1995 to 2002, he was music director of the

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. During his Minnesota tenure, the orchestra saw its attendance decline from 84% to 69% in capacity. He presided over the orchestra's first tours to Europe and Japan. He also made recordings with Minnesota, most on the Reference Records label. Oue served as music director of the

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from 1997 to 2003. After a 1997 tour with the NDR Philharmonie Hannover, Oue was appointed its principal conductor in September 1998. In 2003, he was appointed principal conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. Oue made his debut at the

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in 2005, conducting ''

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''. He became music director of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona in September 2006, stepping down in 2010. Oue's commercial recordings include Niccolò Paganini’s '' Violin Concerto No. 1'' and Louis Spohr’s ''Violin Concerto No. 8'' with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hilary Hahn for

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. He has been professor of conducting at the

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since 2000.

Awards

*2006 Osaka Culture Prize Special Arts Prize

Discography

* Dominick Argento: ''Casa Guidi'', ''Capriccio for Clarinet and Orchestra'' and ''In Praise of Music'', with Frederica von Stade, Burt Hara and the Minnesota Orchestra, Reference Recordings, 2002

External links

Eiji Oue biography

IMG Artists agency biography

References

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