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Profile | Akito Hiraishi
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Akito Hiraishi (b. 1990, Tokyo) is the First Prizewinner of the Professor Dichler Conducting Competition.
He has been invited to many music festivals and conducting courses, including the International Bartok Festival (Hungary), Kirishima International Music Festival (Japan), and Wiener Musik Seminar (Austria). In almost all of them, he was selected as Outstanding Conductor.
Hiraishi has conducted a number of orchestras internationally including the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Savalia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Instabile di Arezzo, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and National Presidential Symphony of Ukraine.
In addition to his symphonic work, he has assisted Maestro Tatsuya Shimono for a production of “Fidelio” and conducted many premieres in the field of contemporary music.
He began his musical studies with piano lessons at 5 and horn at 10. In March 2015, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts (Bachelor of Music, Musicology). His conducting teachers include Tatsuya Shimono, Johannes Wildner, Martin Sieghart, and Zsolt Hamar.
Since October 2017, he has studied with Johannes Wildner at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
He is based in Vienna and Tokyo.
Repertoire
B. Bartok
L. v. Beethoven
H. Berlioz
A. Borodin
J. Brahms
B. Britten
A. Bruckner
A. Copland
C. Debussy
A. Dvorak
G. Enescu
C. Frank
E. Grieg
J. Haydn
F. Liszt
F. Mendelssohn
W. A. Mozart
O. Nikolai
J. Offenbach
Tanz suite, Concerto for Orchestra, Der Holzgeschnitzte Prinz (Ballet), Piano concerto No.3
Symphony No. 1-9, Coriolan overture, Egmont overture, Leonore overture No.2 and No.3, Fidelio overture, The Creatures of Prometheus overture, Piano Concerto No.5, Violin Concerto
Symphony fantastique, Roman carnival overture
from Prince Igor dance of Polovestian maiden and Polovesian dance, In the Steps of central Asia, Symphony No.2
symphony 1-4, Academic Festival overture, Tragische overture, Haydn Variation, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No.2
four Sea interludes from peter grimes
Symphony No. 4 and 5
Appalachian spring for 13 instruments
la Mer, Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un faune
Symphony No. 7, 8, 9, Serenade for strings, Carnival overture, Cello Concerto,
Rhapsodie Roumaine No.1
Symphony in D
Holberg suite, Piano Concerto
Symphony No. 45, 48, 88-104
Les Preludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Symphony No. 3, 4, 5, The Hebrides overture Op. 26, A Midsummer Night's Dream suite, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage overture Op. 27, overture to the Legend of the Fair Melusine Op.32
Symphony No. 25, 29, 36, 38-41, Overtures The Magic Flute, Figaro, Don Giovanni, Diverdiment KV136-138, Violin Concerto No.5, Piano Concerto No. 20, 21, 24, Clarinet Concerto
The Merry Wives of Windsor overture
Orpheus in the underworld overture (arranged by Carl Binder)
M. Ravel
O. Respighi
Rimsky-Korsakov
G. Rossini
C. Saint=Saens
F. Schubert
R. Schumann
D. Shostakovich
I.Stravinsky
J. Straus II
R. Strauss
J.Sibelius
P. Tschaikowsky
R. Wagner
C. M. v. Weber
Rhapsodie Espagnole, Ma mere l'Oye, Pavane, La Valse, Tzigane
Ancient Airs and Dances suite No.3
Scheherazado
overtures to Il Batbiere di Siviglia,
La Cenerentola, Tancredi, la gazza ladra, Guillaume Tell
Symphony No.3
Symphony No. 4-7
Symphony No. 1-4, Overture to Manfred Op.115, Overture to Genoveva Op.81,
Piano Concerto
Symphony No. 5, 7, Festive Overture Op.96
The Soldier's Tale, The Rite of Spring (1967), Petrushka (1947), Concerto in D
The Bat (Die Fledermaus) overture, The Gypsy Baron overture, The Blue Danube Op. 314, Kaiser-Walzer Op.437
Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration Op. 24
Symphony No. 1, 2, Finlandia, Karelia Suite Op.11
Symphony No. 2, 4, 5, 6, The Nutcracker suite, Serenade for strings, Overture 1812, Slavonic March Op. 31, Capriccio Italian Op. 45, Violin Concerto, Rococo Variation,
Piano Concerto No. 1
Overtures to Lienzi, Meistersinger, Lohengrin(also to 3rd Act.), Tannhäuser, Der fliegende Holländer,
Tristan and Isolede Vorspiel and Liebes Tod,
Siegfried Idyl
Overtures to Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe
Fg Concerto