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Conductor: Derrick Inouye

Derrick Inouye, conductor

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Conductor Derrick Inouye has an illustrious career having performed with renowned orchestras such as the Metropolitan Opera, St. Luke's Orchestra in New York, the New York City Opera, the London Philharmonia, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic and the Nuremberg Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, he conducted numerous operas, including Wagner's Valkyrie and Siegfried, Berg's Lulu, Puccini's Tosca, Bizet's Carmen, Verdi's La Traviata, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. During his time as the First Kapellmeister of the Nuremberg Opera, he wrote a number of operas, including the premiere of Philip Glass's opera The Fall of the House of Usher. He has also performed with the Stuttgart Opera, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Nice Opera, the Hungarian National Opera Orchestra, the Vancouver Opera, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In Japan, New Japan Philharmonic , Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras around the world. He has also been invited to the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival. He was the 17th Principal Staff Conductor of the Verbier Summer Festival, and the same conductor at the Tsinandari Music Festival, which was held in Georgia for the first time this year. Inouye won the Vittorio Gui conducting competition in 1985 and later studied with Franco Ferrara at the Chigiana Conservatory, the prestigious Conservatory of Siena. In 1982 he was a fellowship conductor at Tanglewood under Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf and others. He studied conducting under Tadaaki Otaka in Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama at the Toho Gakuen University Faculty of Music in Japan.