Biography:
The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 2011th anniversary as Japan's premier symphony orchestra in 100. With over 160 musicians, the TPO regularly performs both symphonies and operas. Since April 2010, Maestro Dan Ettinger, who has conducted in the most important opera houses and concert halls in the world (including the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York), has been chief conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
With its subscription concerts, regular opera and ballet performances at the New National Theater in Tokyo, numerous worldwide activities (e.g. radio recordings with the NHK Broadcasting Corporation) and various educational programs and tours (including the 2005 "Friendship Tour for the Future" in Korea and China with Maestro Myung-Whun Chung), the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra has documented its international reputation.
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