Eiji Oue

The internationally acclaimed conductor Eiji Oue was born in 1956 in Horoshima, Japan, a city still recovering from the nuclear devastation of the Second World War. As a child he developed a love of music and was enrolled into the famous Toho Gakuen School of Music, a private music school located in Tokyo which had become established shortly after the war. Oue studied under the Japanese cellist Hideo Saito prior to being invited by the conductor Seiji Ozawa to spend a summer studying at the annual music academy at the The Tanglewood Centre in Massachusetts, USA. The experience proved pivotal in the young conductor's development because whilst at Tanglewood he met the American composer Leonard Bernstein who became a mentor to the young Japanese musician. Oue went on to win the coveted Tanglewood Koussevitzky prize in 1980 and was subsequently invited to study under Bernstein at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Oue has gone on to lead some of the world's leading ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra and the NDR Philharmonie Hanover. He is currently the professor for conducting at the Musikhochschule Hannover in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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