Hirofumi Yoshida

Hirofumi Yoshida
is a Japanese orchestral conductor. He resides in Italy, but grew up in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
Education
Yoshida's parents, his father Toru from Tokyo and his mother Ayako from Hokkaido, send their son to the “Kōnodai High School”. Later, following his passion, Yoshida attends the Tokyo College of Music, where he specializes in piano with professor Yukiko Okafuji, in contrabass with Mitsuru Onozaki, in musicology with Reiko Arima and Tomiko Kojiba and in conduction with Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Jun-Ichi Hirokami and Yujiro Tsuda. Between 1994 and 1995, Yoshida move to Vienna to obtain the Music and Arts Master at Vienna's University with the masters Hans Graf and Julius Kalmar. In 1996, he obtained the Advanced Music Master at the Chigiana Academy of Music in Siena with the masters Juri Temirkanov e Myung-Whun Chung
Career
In 2008, Yoshida conducted Don Carlos in Hong Kong. In January 2009, he was appointed music director at Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Mantua, Italy.
In March 2013, maestro Yoshida conducts Rigoletto at al Teatro Vittorio Emanuele II of Messina on the occasion of 200 years from Giuseppe Verdi's birth. In July 2013 the Bologna Opera House (Teatro Comunale of Bologna) invited Yoshida on the occasion of its 250th anniversary to conduct two Baroque opera programmes composed by Padre Martini: Il maestro di musica and Il Don Chisciotte. In October 2013 Maestro Yoshida conducted the same production at Kyoto Opera Festival, which is organised with the support of the Japanese government and whose Artistic Director is the same Hirofumi Yoshida. One of the recitals took place in Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, which is UNESCO World Heritage site. It was the first time in Japan (Yokohama and Kyoto). It was the first time in the 1400 years of history of the temple that an opera performance was held in there. In the same year, Maestro Yoshida is awarded he was awarded the “Enrico Caruso” International Prize, which is conferred to Non-Italians who have made a great contribution to promoting Opera in Italy.
In 2014 Hirofumi Yoshida has been appointed Artistic Director of the Bologna Opera House Philharmonic Orchestra (Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, FTCB). On his debut concert Yoshida conducted Brahms's Violin Concerto in D major with Baiba Skride as soloist and Mozart's Symphony no. 41 Jupiter. At present Hirofumi Yoshida is also associate professor at Toho College of Music.
In February 2015 Hirofumi Yoshida conducted eight performances of Madama Butterfly at Bologna Opera House. In May–June 2015 he conducted 6 performances of Don Pasquale at Teatro Verdi in Trieste. In July 2015 he has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of Bologna Opera House. During Kyoto Opera Festival 2015, in September, he conducted four performances of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in Kyoto, in Tokyo and at World Heritage site Himeji castle in Himeji.
To celebrate the New Year, on 1 January 2016 Hirofumi Yoshida conducted the first New Year's Concert in the history of Bologna. The event took place at Teatro Auditorium Manzoni with the presence of the Bologna Opera House Philharmonic Orchestra. Between May and June 2016 he conducted six performances of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Bologna Opera House in Bologna.
At present Hirofumi Yoshida is designated professor at Toho College of Music, in Japan.
Engagements
2007
Thermae by Caracalla, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome Opera summer season
Pagliacci with Carla Fracci (director), Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Romeo and Juliet with Carla Fracci (director), Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Aida by Verdi, Cairo National Theatre
La Vida Breve by Antonia Marquez, Verdi Theatre, Trieste
Tosca, Cluj-Napoca Opera Theatre, Romania
2008
Madame Butterfly by Puccini, Cairo Opera House
La Traviata by Verdi, Paris
The Marriage of Figaro, Tokyo
The tale of Genji by Minoru Miki, Japan
Don Carlos, Hong Kong
2009
Turandot by Pucinni, Marrucino Theatre, Chieti (in the presence of Simonetta Puccini)
The Elixir of Love by Donizetti, San Carlo Theatre Orchestra, Ercolano
The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Tokyo
2010
Turandot by Puccini, with Maurizio Scaparro (director), Torre del Lago
Rigoletto, Sociale Theatre, Mantua, Donizetti Theatre, Bergamo, Teatro del Giglio, Lucca
2011
Cooperation between Yoshida, the Government of Japan, the Piemonte region and the Novara Council led to the 2011 Japan Festival with the support of the Japan Embassy and the General Consul Shigemi Jomori. With its strong cultural connection to Japan, Madame Butterfly was performed as well as works from the traditional ancient arts of Japan such as Kagura (music of the Gods). The director of the festival was Massimo Petruzzi
Carlo Felice Theatre Orchestra, Genova
11 March 2011 Japan Tsunami concert, Requiem K 626 by Mozart, San Gaudezio Basilica with Toru Takemitsu.
29 April 2011, Madame Butterfly, Latvian National Opera, Riga.
17 September 2011, Capriccio Italien, 1812 Overture, and Symphony no. 5 in E-Minor by Tchaikovsky, Cairo Symphony Orchestra.
2012
La Rondine by Puccini, Stefano Vizioli (director), Vittorio Emanuele Theatre, Messina
"Piero Bellugi Memorial concert", Sonnambula by Bellini, The Music Park, Lyric Theatre of Cagliari, Italy
2013
Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, Messina Theatre, Messina
Il maestro di musica and Il Don Chisciotteby Giovanni Battista Martini, Gabriele Marchesini (director), Bologna Opera House, Bologna and Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
2014
Violin Concerto in D major by Johannes Brahms and Symphony no. 41 Jupiter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bologna Opera House, Bologna
Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, Nijō Castle, Kyoto
2015
Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, Bologna Opera House, Bologna
Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste
Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Himeji Castle, Himeji
2016
The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bologna Opera House, Bologna
Awards
Third prize, 2005 Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century conductors (music)
Japanese male conductors (music)
Living people
21st-century Japanese male musicians