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

Arutiunian

・Tp concerto

S. Barber

・Adagio for strings

Bartok

・Conerto for Orchestra

・Pf Concerto No.3

・Viola Concerto (Serly ver.)

Beethoven

・Symphony 1-9

・Overtures (Fidelio, Leonore No.2,3, Egmont, Coriolan, Prometheus)

・Vn Concerto

・Pf Concerto 1,5

Berlioz

・Symphonie fantastique

・Roman Carnival

Bernstein

・Candide Overture

Bizet

・Symphony in C

・L’arlesienne Suite 1,2

・Carmen Suite 1,2

Borodin

・In the steppes of central Asia

Brahms

・Symphony 1-4

・Academic festival Overture

T・ragic Overture

・Haydn Variation

・Hungarian dance 5,6

・Vn Concertro

・Pf Concerto 1,2

Bruch

・Vn Concerto No.1

Bruckner

・Symphony No.4,9

Chopin

・Pf Concerto 1

Copland

・Appalachian Spring Suite (for 13 instruments)

Debussy

・La Mer

・Prelude a “L’apres-midi d’un faune”

・Petit Suite(Busser ver.)

Dukas

・L’apprenti sorcier

・La Peri fanfare

Dvorak

・Symphony 7-9

・Serenade for Strings

・Concerto for Vc

Elgar

・Pomp and circumstance No.1

・Ve Concerto

Eller

・Heimatliche Melodie (Kodumaine Viis)

Franck

・Symphony

Gershwin

・Rhapsody in Blue

・Progy and Bess -a symphonic picture for orchestra- (by Bennett)

Glinka

・Ruslan and Ludmila overture

・A Life for the Czar Krakowiak

Grieg

・Piano Concerto

・Peer Gynt Suite 1,2

Haydn

・Symphonies (88,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,103,104)

Hindemith

・Septet (for Fl, Ob, Cl, B.Cl, Fg, Hr,Tp)

Janacek

・Capriccio for Piano Left hand and Wind Inastruments

Humperdinck

・Hansel and Gretel Overture

Kalinnikov

・Symphony 1,2

Liszt

・Les Prelude

Mahler

・Symphony no.1

Mendelssohn

・Symphony 3,4,5

・Vn Concerto

・Overtures(Die Hebriden, Melusine, Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt, Overture in C)

Mozart

・Symphonies(25, 29,36,38,39,40,41)

・Overtures(Zauberflute, Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Don giovanni)

・Serenade No.10 (Gran Partita)

Moussorgsky

・A night on bald Mountain(R. Korsakov ver.)

・Pictures at an exihibition (Ravel ver.)

Paganini

・Vn Concero 1,2

Prokofiev

・Waltz (War and Peace Op.91)

Poulenc

・Concerto for 2 pianos

Rachmaninoff

・Symphony No.2

・Pf Concerto No.2

Ravel

・Ma mere L’oye

Rossini

・Overture(Siviglia, La gazza ladra)

R. Korsakov

・Scheherazade

・The Snow maiden suite

Saint-Saens

・Symphony No. 3

・Bacchanale

・Vn Concerto No.3

Schubert

・Symphonies(2,3,4,5,7,8)

・Rosamunde Overture

・Rosamunde Interlude(Entr’acte No.3)

Schumann

・Symphonies(1-4)

・Manfred Overture

・Pf Concerto

Shostakovich

・Symphony No.5

Smetana

・Vysehrad, Vltava

Sibelius

・Symphony No. 2

・Finlandia

・Feuhlingslied

・Karelia suite

・Lemminkäinen's Return

・Violin Concerto

Stenhammar

・Excelsior!

J.Strauss

・Overture zu Die Fledermaus

・Overture the Gypsy Baron

・Kaiser Walzer etc

R. Strauss

・Don Juan

・Serenade for Winds

Stravinsky

・Histoire du soldat

・Fire Bird(1919)

・The Rite of Spring

・Symphonies od wind instrumuents(1947)

・Octet for Wind instruments

Sviridov

・Small Triptych

Tchaikovsky

・Symphonies (2,4,5,6)

・Swan lake suite

・Nutcracker (whole ballet)

・1812

・Marche Slave

・Capriccio Italian

・Serenade for Strings

・Pf Concerto

・Vn Concerto

Verdi

・Overtures ( Nabucco, Laforza del destino)

Wagner

・Overtures (Rienzi, Meistersinger)

・Siegfried Idyll

Weber

・Overtures(Euryanthe,Freischutz, Oberon)

・Fg Concerto

Webern

・Im Sommerwind

・Langsamer Satz (String Orcherstra ver. byGerard Schwarz)

Wieniawski

・Fantasie Brillante sur “Faust” (for Vnand Orchestra)

J.Williams

・Star Wars suite

久石譲

となりのトトロオーケストラストーリーズ

Opera

Donizetti

・La fille du Regiment (French ver.)

Mozart

・Don Giovanni

・Die Zauberflote

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