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18-465: Ural Philharmonic Orchestra performs over 100 concerts and more than 70 programs per year, its concerts are regularly broadcast via the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic's digital concert hall. Led by their Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Dmitry Liss for over 25 years, the orchestra is famous for its particular sound and performance excellence, both of classical and contemporary repertoires. UPO is

36-474: A haiku by Matsuo Bashō . The music uses wind sounds, tone clusters, and percussion close to natural sounds, while the choral writing seems to align with European models. In 2010, he composed a chamber music work for his friend Walter Fink, Für Walter (For Walter), for soprano saxophone and piano, with percussion ad libitum, and attended its premiere in a concert on Fink's 80th birthday. Hosokawa has received several awards and honors, including: IRCAM has

54-525: A recommendation from Huber, he returned to Japan, where he found his personal style influenced by traditional Japanese music. In 1989, he cofounded the annual Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Music Seminar and Festival in Yamaguchi and was its artistic director until 1998. From 1998 to 2007 he served as Composer-in-Residence at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra . He was also the artistic director of

72-563: A variety of American, Russian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Belgian and Swiss companies. Toshio Hosokawa Toshio Hosokawa ( 細川 俊夫 , Hosokawa Toshio , born 23 October 1955) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music . He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima , and instrumental music. He

90-732: The Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2004, staged by the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker . Co-commissioned with La Monnaie in Brussels, it was also performed in Bielefeld , Hamburg , Lisbon, Lyon , Milan and Tokyo. Hosokawa won the fifth Roche Commission with Woven Dreams for orchestra, which was first played by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst at the Lucerne Festival in 2010. His third opera

108-627: The Berlin University of the Arts . From 1983 to 1986, he studied with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg . In 1980, he first took part in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse , including the performance of his compositions. He lectured there regularly beginning in 1990. In the following years, he became known internationally and received several commissions. On

126-845: The Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin. He was invited to be composer in residence at festivals such as the Venice Biennale , in both 1995 and 2001; the Lucerne Festival in 2000; musica viva in Munich in 2001; Musica nova in Helsinki in 2003; and the Warsaw Autumn in 2005 and 2007. He served as director of the Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition from 2012 to 2015. Invited by Walter Fink , he

144-561: The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln , conducted by Rupert Huber , with soloist Gerhild Romberger . The oratorio was conceived in 1989 as a requiem for the victims of the nuclear bomb of 6 August 1945, but was expanded to a suite in five movements in 2001 in response to ecological problems due to economic growth. Among the texts is a poem "Heimkehr" (Returning home) by Paul Celan , and

162-682: The Japanese Takefu International Music Festival in Fukui starting in 2001. In 2004, Hosokawa was appointed a guest professor at the Tokyo College of Music . He was a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin from 2001. He was influenced by Japanese aesthetic and spiritual elements, such as calligraphy , court music and Noh theatre, giving "musical expression to the notion of a beauty that has grown from transience". He said: "We hear

180-607: The Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, Yekaterinburg since 2015. Dmitry Liss Dmitry Liss (born 1960) is a Russian conductor . He is also the artistic director and chief conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra . Born in 1960, Dmitry Liss is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory . Upon graduation from the conservatory in 1984 he became a conductor of the Kuzbass Symphony Orchestra. In 1991 he

198-1709: The Swiss Culture and Congress Center , John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , Tonhalle, Zürich and Victoria Hall (Geneva) , Queen Elizabeth Hall , Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory , Saint Petersburg Philharmonia , Mariinsky Theatre , and others. Ural Philharmonic Orchestra's their discography includes more than 40 albums marked with high ratings, prestigious awards and nominations, such as OPUS Klassik (former Echo Klassik ) and International Classical Music Awards . Ural Philharmonic Orchestra collaborated with conductors Dmitri Kitayenko , Gennady Rozhdestvensky , Krzysztof Penderecki , Leif Segerstam , Mikhail Pletnev , Vladimir Fedoseyev , Alexander Lazarev , Valery Gergiev , Klaus Tennstedt , Jean-Claude Casadesus , Inoue Michiyoshi , Hansjörg Albrecht, Fabio Mastrangelo, Eliahu Inbal , Andrey Boreyko , Gintaras Rinkevičius , Dimitris Botinis and soloists Mstislav Rostropovich , Dmitri Hvorostovsky , Nikolai Petrov , Yuri Bashmet , Viktor Tretyakov , Elisso Virsaladze , Natalia Gutman , Liana Isakadze , Alexander Knyazev , Boris Andrianov, Peter Donohoe , Olga Borodina , Alena Baeva , Benjamin Grosvenor , Henri Demarquette , Olga Peretyatko , Behzod Abduraimov , Boris Berezovsky , Vadim Repin , Nikolai Lugansky , Denis Matsuev , Freddy Kempf , Sergey Krylov , Olga Peretyatko , Branford Marsalis , Dmitry Masleev , Vadym Kholodenko , and other distinguished artists. The orchestra regularly performs contemporary music and commissions works from

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216-519: The individual notes and appreciate at the same time the process of how the notes are born and die: a sound landscape of continual 'becoming' that is animated in itself." Hosokawa's first opera, the Shakespeare adaptation Vision of Lear , premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1998. It includes elements from the traditional Japanese Noh theatre. His second opera was Hanjo , which premiered at

234-659: The main resident orchestra of all the festivals and special projects of the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic. UPO touring history includes over 20 countries and such venues as the Pleyel , Arsenal de Metz , Théâtre Claude Debussy, Corum (Montpellier) , Palais des congrès de Paris , Berliner Philharmonie , Elbphilharmonie , Essen Philharmonic , Konzerthaus, Vienna , Brucknerhaus Linz, Royal Concertgebouw , Auditorio de Murcia, Beethovenhalle , Tokyo Bunka Kaikan , Tokyo International Forum , Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre ,

252-1080: The modern composers. In different years, UPO collaborated with Toshio Hosokawa , Ivan Fedele , Alexander Tchaikovsky, Leonid Desyatnikov , René Koering , Eun-Hwa Cho, Anton Batagov , and Olga Viktorova. The orchestra's repertoire has included works by Yuri Falik , Sofia Gubaidulina , Valentin Silvestrov , Avet Terteryan , Arvo Pärt , Galina Ustvolskaya , Nikolay Myaskovsky , Sergei Rachmaninov , Sergei Prokofiev , Dmitri Shostakovich , Igor Stravinsky , Olivier Messiaen , Kaija Saariaho , Krzysztof Penderecki , Gia Kancheli , Rodion Schedrin , Alfred Schnittke , Philip Glass , John Adams , Gabriel Prokofiev . The orchestra performed at numerous international festivals, including Music Biennale Zagreb , Beethovenfest , Ludwigsburg Festival , Bodensee Festival, Europalia , Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron , and La Folle Journée in France, Russia, Spain and Japan. The Russian edition of La Folle Journée has taken place at UPO's home,

270-612: Was Matsukaze , again inspired by Noh theatre, which was staged by Sasha Waltz at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2011, with additional performances at the Berlin State Opera and in Luxembourg and Warsaw. His works were premiered by conductors such as Kazushi Ono , Kent Nagano , Simon Rattle , Alexander Liebreich and Robin Ticciati . Several of them became part of contemporary repertoire. Hosokawa did research in 2006/07 and 2008/09 at

288-700: Was appointed to the position of Chief Conductor of this orchestra and at this time became the youngest chief conductor in Russia. Since 1995, Dmitry Liss has served as Artistic Director/Chief Conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra . Most recently, Liss was appointed Associate Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (1999). In 1997–1999 he was Principal Russian Conductor of the American Russian Youth Orchestra. He has taken part in numerous international festivals and has recorded CDs for

306-556: Was the 18th composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2008. In a concert of chamber music played by the Arditti Quartet and Mayumi Miyata (Shō), works such as "Silent Flowers" and "Blossoming" were presented, in which the composer tried to give nature a voice (der Natur ... eine Stimme zu geben). and his oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima was performed at Eberbach Abbey by

324-544: Was the cofounder and artistic director of a Japanese festival for contemporary music and has been a composer in residence at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale , Lucerne Festival , Warsaw Autumn and Rheingau Musik Festival . His operas premiered at the Munich Biennale and La Monnaie , among others. Hosokawa was born in Hiroshima . He first studied piano and composition in Tokyo, then from 1976 with Yun Isang at

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