An extracted from press release 2020
Seventh edition of the ITALIAN OPERA ACADEMY with Riccardo Muti
– IMPORTANT NEWS –
2021 edition will be in DECEMBER
Musicians and audience – from all over the world – can thus attend and assist the rehearsals with Riccardo Muti in DECEMBER 2021, FROM 4th TO 15th.
– December 18, 2020 –
– February 28, 2020 –
IMPORTANT NOTICE from the Spring Festival in Tokyo:
We regret to inform that the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo has been postponed for the prevention of the spreading of the new coronavirus (COVID-19). We apologize for the inconvenience caused to all those looking forward to the Academy.
Rescheduled dates have not been confirmed, yet.
Refund information for purchased tickets will be announced on the Festival’s website at a later date.
Thank you for your understanding.
www.tokyo-harusai.com
Dates for the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy on Cavalleria Rusticana at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna (Italy) remain unchanged and are confirmed from the 18th to the 31st of July.
In order to stay informed on Riccardo Muti’s activities, we suggest to subscribe to the newsletter here.
Further information on the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo:
www.riccardomutioperacademy.com/academy-tokyo/
Further information on the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Italy (Ravenna):
www.riccardomutioperacademy.com
©Spring Festival in Tokyo/Satoshi Aoyagi
An extracted from press release 2019
Mozart unterm brennglas by Kirsten Liese, ORPHEUS – November/December 2019
Master Classes Comptes Rendus by Thierry Guyenne, OPÈRA magazine – October 2019
L’OPERA mondo by Gregorio Moppi, Amadeus – September 2019
La svolta da Verdi a Mozart by Claudia Mambelli, l’opera – September 2019
L’Opera è massacrata la volgarità insulta Verdi by Flaminia Bussotti, Il Messaggero – July 28, 2019
Musica, maestro (e rivoluzione) by Leonetta Bentivoglio, ROBINSON la Repubblica – July 27, 2019
Emergenza Verdi by Andrea Estero, CLASSIC VOICE – May 14, 2019
– September 2020 –
The Japanese conductor grants two year scolarship at the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, becoming Assistant for Kirill Petrenko – Chief Conductor of the Orchestra.
– September 2019 –
The young conductor Nodoka Okisawa, after participating in the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo on “Rigoletto” (March 2019), has won the Grand Prix at the “Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors”.
The young musician has also been awarded with the prizes for “Coup de cœur de l’orchestre” (Orchestra’s favorite) and “Coup de cœur du public” (public’s favorite) .
Further information on the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo:
www.riccardomutioperacademy.com/academy-tokyo/
Further information on the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Italy (Ravenna):
www.riccardomutioperacademy.com
©Spring Festival in Tokyo/Satoshi Aoyagi
- January 2019 -
Li-Kuo Chang, Viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - of which Riccardo Muti is Music Director from 2010 - will give his important contribution for the entire period of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna, from July 20 to August 2, 2019.
An extraordinary learning opportunity for young musicians of Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, for the young conductors and répétiteurs who will be selected and, certainly, an added value of great interest for the audience attending the rehearsals.
Li-Kuo Chang has been impressed of taking part in this project created by Riccardo Muti sharing and considering so important to spread the beauty of the Italian Opera, so that giving his contrinbution.
"Le nozze di Figaro"
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
from July 20 to August 2, 2019
Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna (Italy)
Supporter, audience, listener: attend the rehearsals of Riccardo Muti
For information: info@riccardomutioperacademy.com
ERINA YASHIMA Assistant for Yannick Nézet-Séguindel
- September 2019 -
The young Conductor becomes Assistant for Yannick Nézet-Séguindel, Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Moreover she conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra, in special concerts occasion.
ERINA YASHIMA CONDUCTS "LE NOZZE DI FIGARO"
- February 22, 2019 -
Le nozze di Figaro, the first Opera of the trilogy by the composer W.A. Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, will be on stage at Teatro Alighieri on Friday 22nd and Sunday 24th. On this occasion, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini will be conducted by Erina Yashima, who participated in the first edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy. Winner of the Georg Solti contest for assistant conductor of Riccardo Muti in Chicago, Yashima returns to Teatro Alighieri where she has already conducted Rossini's Cinderella during 2016/17 season, after her debut in Salzburg in the summer of the same year.
Photo1 © Silvia Lelli – Photo2 © Todd Rosenberg
FOR THE YOUNG CONDUCTOR ERINA YASHIMA THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RICCARDO MUTI IN CHICAGO CONTINUES THROUGH 2018/2019
- April 2, 2018 -
RICCARDO MUTI AND CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCE EXTENSION FOR SIR GEORG SOLTI CONDUCTING APPRENTICE ERINA YASHIMA
Yashima Continues as Solti Conducting Apprentice for a Third Consecutive Year through 2018/19 Season
Yashima Leads Civic Orchestra Concert featuring Symphonies of Beethoven and Rachmaninov on April 9
CHICAGO—Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) announce the extension for Erina Yashima as the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice through the 2018/19 season. Yashima was appointed to the position in 2015 for a two-year term covering the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons.
In recognition of her accomplishments over the past two seasons, Muti and the CSOA made the decision to extend Yashima’s term in the role. Yashima is the third Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprentice, a position that Muti helped to establish at the beginning of his tenure as music director. The position was created in part to recognize the CSO’s distinguished tradition of training young musicians and was previously held by Sean Kubota (2011-2013) and Matthew Aucoin (2013-2015). The International Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprenticeship is a program of the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO.
“I have respect and appreciation for Ms. Yashima,” said Riccardo Muti. “She demonstrates great commitment to her role as our Solti Conducting Apprentice and an excellent level of artistry that she shares with our young musicians of the Civic Orchestra. I am pleased that she will continue with us for the upcoming season.”
“The role of Solti Conducting Apprentice has made a major impact in my life as a musician and as a person,” noted Yashima. “The opportunity to learn from one of the greatest conductors such as Maestro Muti and the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and to collaborate with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago over the last two years has been a significant experience that I will take with me throughout my life in music. I look forward to continuing my work in this inspiring environment and hope that I can return to the musical world what has been shared with me by these incredible musicians during my time in this role.”
During her tenure as Solti Conducting Apprentice, Yashima has spent at least 10 weeks each season studying and assisting Muti in Chicago during his residencies with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Yashima has also had a close association with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the CSO’s training orchestra for young professional musicians. Her podium appearances with the Civic Orchestra have included a spring 2016 community “side-by-side” concert with young musicians from Schurz High School and Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma, a concert with the Civic during the 2016 Ear Taxi Festival and an April 2017 Civic Orchestra performance featuring Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring at Symphony Center.
Yashima leads the Civic Orchestra in a program of works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov on Monday, April 9, at 8 p.m. at Symphony Center. Yashima, who made her podium debut with Civic last season, conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 and Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2.
As Solti Conducting Apprentice, Yashima has also led the orchestra assembled for the finals of the 2017 and 2018 Young Artists Competition and led Civic Orchestra musicians alongside young musicians from the People’s Music School, Sistema Ravinia and ChiMOP during the 2018 Youth in Music Festival. She also assisted guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen during the week leading up to the CSO’s 2017 world premiere performances of the composer’s new cello concerto written for Yo-Yo Ma.
During the 2018/19 season, Yashima will continue to observe and assist Muti during his 10 weeks of residency activities with the CSO, lead the Civic Orchestra in rehearsal and performances, and will also participate in other programs of the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute.
German-born conductor Erina Yashima recently made her conducting debut at the 2017 Salzburg Festival in Der Schauspieldirektor, the festival's opera production for children, and her Italian opera debut in February 2017 in Rossini's La Cenerentola leading the Cherubini Youth Orchestra in Lucca and Ravenna–a production she also conducted in Piacenza in February 2018. During Romania’s 2017 Festival Musical Autumn Cluj, Yashima conducted the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca. In September 2017, Yashima was also invited to be a cover conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
Previously, Yashima served as répétiteur with conducting duties at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, where she made her conducting debut in December 2015. From 2013-2015, she was the music director of the Freies Student Orchestra Rostock. In 2013, she was given the Award of Outstanding Excellence by the Rheinsberg Student Orchestra for the opera production she conducted there that year. Her guest conducting experiences include a collaboration with El Sistema in Venezuela, where she conducted two youth orchestras in May 2015. In that same year, Yashima was a participant at Riccardo Muti's Italian Opera Academy at the Ravenna Festival and was selected by Bernard Haitink as one of seven candidates to take an active part in his conducting master class during the Lucerne Festival.
The creation of the CSO International Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprenticeship was announced by then-Music Director Designate Riccardo Muti in October 2009 as part of his larger vision for the CSOA. The program is named for Sir Georg Solti, who served as music director of the CSO from 1969 to 1991, not only because of his deep connection with the CSO, but also in honor of his commitment to connecting with young musicians.
Support for Erina Yashima as the Sir Georg Solti Conducing Apprentice in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons was provided through a generous grant from The Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation.
After conducting La Cenerentola at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Erina Yashima will be on the podium for a new production of the prestigious Salzburg Festival.
From July, 28th 2017 the children’s german opera Der Schauspieldirektor will be performed featuring music by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
Erina Yashima, who participated in the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy (2015), has been selected to conduct La cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini, co-procucted by Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna and Teatro Municipale in Piacenza for the 2017/2018 opera season .
With Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini (founded by Riccardo Muti).
Photo © Silvia Lelli
- October 13, 2018 -
Hossein Pishkar, who participated in the third edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy (2017), has been selected to conduct "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi, during Trilogia d'autunno, the Ravenna Festival's lyric marathon that will alternate three titles - Nabucco, Rigoletto, Otello - on the stage of Teatro Alighieri, from Novembre, 23 to December, 2.
With Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini (founded by Riccardo Muti).
- October 2, 2018 -
The young Iranian conductor Hossein Pishkar, right after participating in the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy on Giuseppe Verdi's “Aida” (third edition in September 2017), has won the International Deutscher Dirigentenpreis.
The Price, debuting in Colonia (Germany) from 22 to 29 September 2017 is an international competition for young conductors jointly organised in a partnership by the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat), the orchestras of Kölner Philharmonie, Oper Köln, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and the WDR Sinfonieorchester.
Photo © Silvia Lelli