BSO CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES
on Saturday, July 30 th 2005 8:00 pm at the National Theatre.

Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Foundation in co-operation with HSBC in Thailand, L'OCCITANE and Japan Airlines proudly present the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra in “BSO Classical Concert Series”

•  under the baton of BSO Music Director ,
•  Maestro Hikotaro Yazaki
•  together with Tasana Nagavajara , Violin

Programme :

•  Violin Concerto (Brahms)
•  Violin solo by Tasana Nagavajara
•  And the Symphony No.2 (Sibelius)

Hikotaro Yazaki has been the Principal Conductor for BSO since 1998 and recently was appointed by the BSO Board of Directors as BSO's Music Director. Yazaki also conducts the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the London's Royal Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Paris Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Suisse Romanade, just to name a few. He now maintains the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse and the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra.

The program, featuring well-known Thai violinist, Tasana Nagavajara , in the famous romantic violin concerto by Brahms and Jean Sibelius's Symphony no.2 Among the top notches of the new generation of Thai violinists, Tasana performs with the BSO regularly and presently is BSO concert master. He recently receives the scholarship from the Classical Music Education Supporting Fund under the patronage of HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra to attend masterclass at Crescendo Violin School for Professional Musicians.

Official Site : http://www.bangkoksymphony.org

Hikotaro Yazaki, Conductor Born in Tokyo in 1947, Hikotaro Yazaki first studied mathematics at Tokyo's Sophia University before graduating from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as a conductor. For two years from 1970, he was Assistant Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under its Music Director, Seiji Ozawa. In 1972 he led a concert tour to Switzerland as conductor of the Tokyo Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Yazaki then furthered his studies with some of the great conducting teachers in Europe – Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celebidache, Zdenek Kosler, Pierre Dervaux and Hans Swarowsky, whose students included Claudio Abbado and Zubin Mehta. He was a prize-winner at the first John Player International Conductors Competition in 1974, at the Besancon Competition in 1975, and at the Rassengna Internazionale “Gino Marinuzzi” in 1996.

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Since then, he has held a number of titled positions with international orchestras, including Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra from 1979-1988, Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra from 1986-1988, Principal Guest Conductor of the Hofer Symphony Orchestra in Germany between 1986 and 1989, and subsequently Music Director and Principal Conductor of the same Orchestra from 1989 until 1996.

Since 1994, Hikotaro Yazaki has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse. In 2002 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2003 he has been Principal Conductor and Music Advisor of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra.

Among the many European orchestras with which Mr. Yazaki has been associated as a regular guest conductor are London's Royal Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Paris Opera Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, several BBC Orchestra, the Orchestra Colonne in Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Lyon Orchestra, Avignon Orchestra, Orchestra of the Capitole Toulouse, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera Wallonie.

For his ongoing commitment to the promotion of French music and culture, Hikotaro Yazaki was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2001.