Joji Hattori

Joji Hattori, Violin, who has just been appointed to become the Associate Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, is an artist whose engaging personality and deeply committed performances have made him one of the leading Japanese musicians of his generation, initially as violinist and more recently as conductor. He was born in Japan and spent most of his childhood in Vienna. Influenced by both cultures and with a strong background in chamber music, Hattori is today one of the very few musicians of Asian heritage who is recognised by international orchestras for his interpretation of the Viennese Classics (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert). He started playing the violin at the age of five and studied later with Rainer Küchl at the Vienna Academy of Music. He has also worked with Yehudi Menuhin, Michel Schwalbé and Vladimir Spivakov.

Joji Hattori, Violin, who has just been appointed to become the Associate Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, is an artist whose engaging personality and deeply committed performances have made him one of the leading Japanese musicians of his generation, initially as violinist and more recently as conductor. He was born in Japan and spent most of his childhood in Vienna. Influenced by both cultures and with a strong background in chamber music, Hattori is today one of the very few musicians of Asian heritage who is recognised by international orchestras for his interpretation of the Viennese Classics (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert).

He started playing the violin at the age of five and studied later with Rainer Küchl at the Vienna Academy of Music. He has also worked with Yehudi Menuhin, Michel Schwalbé and Vladimir Spivakov. In 1989 he won the First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. In Sept. 2002, he was selected among 362 candidates worldwide to give a conducting debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall and was awarded the Lincoln Maazel Fellowship at the inaugural Maazel-Vilar Conductor’s Competition, thus enabling him to have Lorin Maazel as his mentor for the coming three years.

As violinist, Joji Hattori has appeared with many distinguished orchestras including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre National de Lille, Munich Radio Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony, Slovakian Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Tokyo Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic (under Seiji Ozawa), Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

Having made his directing debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 1996, he now frequently conducts orchestras throughout Europe and Japan. His tour to India (March 2001) and the subscription concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus (April 2001) with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra were so successful that the orchestra immediately invited Joji Hattori to become one of its principal conductors. He also conducts the London Mozart Players and the New Japan Philharmonic on a regular basis. In April 2002, he served as the official conductor for the finals of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition.

During the coming season, Joji Hattori will conduct the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt and one of the Tokyo City Philharmonic’s subscription concerts in addition to many concerts with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at its residency, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and on tours. He will also tour Portugal with Maria Joao Pires and the Tokyo Ensemble and conduct the New Year’s Concert of the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo as well as the orchestral concert of the International Piano Festival in Lucena (Spain).

The Tokyo Ensemble, of which Hattori is Music Director, is a chamber orchestra consisting of leading chamber musicians in Japan. He is also Artistic Director of the International Violin Festival “Genius of the Violin” in London (April 2004) and the chamber music festival of the Brucknerhaus in Linz.

Joji Hattori has recorded Bach Violin Concertos (Scottish Chamber Orchestra), Mozart Violin concertos (London Mozart Players) and an extensive Kreisler album with Joseph Seiger for BMG Classics. This year will see the release of his recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Gerhard Bosse.

In addition to his busy concert and recording schedule Joji Hattori is visiting professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he presently resides. He also pursues his non-musical interests in sociology as a senior member of St Antony College in Oxford.

For more information on Joji Hattori please visit www.jojihattori.com.

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11/3/03: Joji Hattori

Joji Hattori, Japanese-born conductor and violinist, plays violin works by Schubert and Kreisler with pianist Florian Uhlig.
Presented in cooperation with the Lorin Maazel Theater.

Joji Hattori

Joji Hattori, Japanese-born conductor and violinist, plays violin works by Schubert and Kreisler with pianist Florian Uhlig.
Presented in cooperation with the Lorin Maazel Theater.

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