Profile | Akito Hiraishi

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Akito Hiraishi is a semifinalist for the Lake Como International Conducting Competition.

In the 2021 season, Hiarishi has been appointed Associate Conductor of Japan's premier orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo. His appointment includes assisting Chief Conductor, Maestro Paavo Järvi and guest conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Fabio Luisi, Gaetano Despinosa and many others.

He has been invited to participate in various music festivals and conducting programs, including the International Bartok Festival (Hungary), Kirishima International Music Festival (Japan), and Wiener Musik Seminar (Austria).

In addition to his participation in festivals, Hiraishi has conducted the Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Savalia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Instabile di Arezzo, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and the National Presidential Symphony of Ukraine.

His strong passion for opera led him to conduct numerous premieres and most recently to assist Maestro Janowsky in Lohengrin and Maestro Tatsuya Shimono in Fidelio.

While pursuing conducting training at Ueno Gakuen University, Hiraishi received his Musicology degree from Tokyo University of the Arts. After graduating, he attended the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under the tutelage of Dr. Johannes Wildner. In addition, his mentors include Tomáš Netopil, Martin Sieghart and Junichi Hirokami.

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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