Shizuo Z Kuwahara

2013

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra April 5 - 12, 2013, Morning Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD Rossini: William Tell Overture, excerpt Copland: I bought Me a Cat Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Little Swans Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf J. Strauss Sr.: Radetzky March Orquesta Sinfonica de Salta Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:30pm Teatro Provincial de Salta, Salta, Argentina Gershwin: Cuban Overture Barber: Essay No. 1 Haydn: Trumpet Concerto Ruben Albano, trumpet Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Tower: Sequoia Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Pascal Godart, piano Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, May 11, 2013 7:30pm Lady Antebellum Pavilion, Evans, GA Pops Under the Stars! Program TBA Symphony Orchestra Augusta Friday, September 27, 2013 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Kabalevsky: Overture pathétique, op. 64 Respighi: Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows) Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 Macon Symphony Orchestra Friday, October 12, 2013 7:30pm The Grand Opera House, Macon, GA Shostakovich: Festive Overture Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor Middle Georgia Choral Society Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite 1919 version Symphony Orchestra Augusta Friday, November 8, 2013 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Handel: Concerto Grosso, op. 6, no. 4 Handel: Harp Concerto, op. 4, no. 6 Ravel: Introduction & Allegro Vonda Darr, harp Haydn: Symphony No. 98 Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, November 9, 2013 8:00pm Etherredge Center, Aiken, SC Handel: Concerto Grosso, op. 6, no. 4 Handel: Harp Concerto, op. 4, no. 6 Ravel: Introduction & Allegro Vonda Darr, harp Haydn: Symphony No. 98 Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra Sunday, December 22, 2013 3:00pm Yokkaichi Cultural Center No. 1 Hall, Japan Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"

2014

Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, January 18, 2014 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Strauss, R.: Salome - Dance of the Seven Veils Scriabin: Le Poéme de l'extase, op. 54 Strauss, R.: Also Sprach Zarathustra Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, February 22, 2014 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Mozart Festival Mozart: The Impresario Overture, K. 486 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 Lucinda Carver, piano Mozart: Serenade, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K. 525 Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, March 22, 2014 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, op. 21 Hennecken, John: Agnus Dei Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi Arthur Ross, viola Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian", op. 90 Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra April 25 & 26, 2014 8:00pm Jacoby Symphony Hall, Jacksonville, FL Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 26 Stewart Goodyear, piano Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite 1919 version Symphony Orchestra Augusta Friday, May 2, 2014 7:30pm Etherredge Center, Aiken, SC Lee, Damon: Undercurrent (World Premiere) Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 26 Ryo Yanagitani, piano Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique, op. 74 Symphony Orchestra Augusta Saturday, May 3, 2014 7:30pm First Baptist Church, Augusta, GA Lee, Damon: Undercurrent (World Premiere) Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, op. 26 Ryo Yanagitani, piano Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique, op. 74 Osaka Symphony Orchestra Saturday, August 23, 2014 5:00pm The Symphony Hall, Osaka, Japan Berlioz: Roman Festival Overture, op. 9 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 Sandor Javorkai, violin Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, op. 78 "Organ"

About

Shizuo Z Kuwahara Winner of first prize in the prestigious Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition in Germany, Shizuo Z Kuwahara is currently the music director of Symphony Orchestra Augusta. He was an assistant conductor at the Saito Kinen Festival in summer of 2008, where he was an assistant to Seiji Ozawa, conducted the Ozawa Jyuku Orchestra. He spent his summer of 2006 in Sapporo, Japan serving as an assistant conductor to Valery Gergiev at the Pacific Music Festival. Mr. Kuwahara was with The Philadelphia Orchestra as a League of American Orchestras conducting fellow, covering and leading numerous concerts as an apprentice to Christoph Eschenbach. At the beginning of his career, Mr. Kuwahara has also served as Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra Activities at the College of William & Mary and American University, as well as an associate conductor of the Virginia Symphony. Frequent guest conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, Nice Philharmonic and Japan Philharmonic, Mr. Kuwahara will make a debut with Salta Symphony in Argentina this season. His past guest conducting appearances includes Frankfurt Museum Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Century Orchestra Osaka, Nagoya Philharmonic, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Philharmonia Slaska, Sinfonieorchester den Nationalen Philharmonischen Gesellshaft der Uklaine Kiew, Nice Philharmonic, German Radio Symphony Orchestra and L’Orchestre Pasdeloup. In addition to winning the first prize at the Solti Competition, he received additional prizes from the Malko International Conducting Competition, Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting, the Prokofiev International Conducting Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia and Fitelberg International Competition in Katowice, Poland. He is also a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, Georgia Trend 2011 40 Under 40 - Georgia’s Best & Brightest, Augusta Region’s Top Ten in Ten Young Professionals, 2011 Greater Augusta Arts Council Art Professional Award, and 2011 S&R Washington Award. Born in Tokyo, Mr. Kuwahara studied conducting at Yale University, where he was awarded the Charles Ives Scholarship and won the Eleazar de Carvalho Prize, and at the Eastman School of Music, where he was awarded the George Eastman Scholarship, Performer's Certificate and Arts Leadership Program Certificate. At these conservatories, his primary teachers included David Effron and Lawrence Leighton Smith. Mr. Kuwahara has also studied with Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Timothy Muffitt and Michael Jinbo at various conducting institutions, including Aspen, the National Conducting Institute, the Pierre Monteux School, and the Chautauqua Music Institute.

Articles

Sir Georg Solti Conductors’ Competition Shizuo Kuwahara picked up first prize Conduct! Jede Bewegung zählt Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition 2008 Augusta Magazine Standing Ovation Arts Professional Award Music at Yale Shizuo Kuwahara ’01MM wins 2008 Solti Competition IML Spotlight Meet Shizuo "Z" Kuwahara Georgia Trend 40 UNDER 40 Georgia's Best & Brightest Augusta Magazine Navigating the Future Young Professionals under 40 in Augusta Rochester Review Conducting a Musical Conversation WRDW-TV Augusta Augusta musicians join forces in benefit concert to help Japan Augusta's Choice SOA Performs Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Hook and More!