Seiji Ozawa and International Music Academy-Switzerland Announce Fifth Anniversary Concert in Paris

Seiji Ozawa and International Music Academy-Switzerland Announce Fifth Anniversary Concert in Paris

NEW YORK, April 29/PRNewswire/ --

- Prestigious training academy for young musicians commemorates
fifth anniversary by launching onto world stage

World renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa and the International Music
Academy-Switzerland will commemorate their fifth anniversary with their first
international performance at the esteemed Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris
on July 1st. The group will also perform in Geneva on June 29th at Victoria
Hall. Founded in 2005 by Seiji Ozawa, the International Music
Academy-Switzerland is comprised of exceptional chamber music students from
the top academies around the world. This year's ensemble features 26 students
from Japan, France, Australia, Korea, USA, Russia, Poland, Georgia, Holland
and Norway. The academy performs annually in Geneva but for the first time,
Seiji Ozawa is excited to be launching this extraordinary ensemble of
musicians onto the world stage.

Selected through a rigorous process by renowned musical pedagogues, the
International Music Academy-Switzerland is comprised of student string
musicians of the highest caliber. Students are given the unsurpassed
opportunity of training for ten days over the summer on the shores of Lake
Geneva, with Seiji Ozawa and other famous teachers such as Robert Mann, Sadao
Harada, Pamela Frank and Nobuko Imai. This year, the culmination of this
process is these two concerts, in Paris and Geneva, which afford the students
excellent experience performing on the world-stage, while giving audiences an
opportunity to hear this superb ensemble. This year's concert in Paris will
launch the first international performance, with their inspired teacher and
conductor, Seiji Ozawa, at the helm. The program includes pieces by
Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Schubert, Bartok, Brahms, Schoenberg and
Tchaikovsky.

The International Music Academy-Switzerland is an exclusive annual project
created by Seiji Ozawa, who, following in the tradition of his late great
mentor Hideo Saito, believes that chamber music is one of the key pillars of
classical music training. The International Music Academy-Switzerland is a
non-profit organization.

Seiji Ozawa is currently the music director of the Vienna State Opera, a
position he has held since 2002. His other historic residencies include the
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Boston
Symphony (where he was music director for 29 years) and the Vienna
Philharmonic. In 1992, Seiji Ozawa founded the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto
as a tribute to his teacher and mentor, the late Hideo Saito. The festival
grew naturally from the success of the Saito Kinen Orchestra (SKO), which he
founded on the 10th Anniversary of Hideo Saito's death in 1984. Ozawa
continues to tour internationally with the Saito Kinen Orchestra, as well as
regularly conducting the New Japan Philharmonic and major European
orchestras. Ozawa has founded many other teaching institutions, including the
Ongaku-juku and the Saito Kinen Chamber Music Study Group for Young People,
with the aim of fostering classical music training around the world.

For more information, please contact:
Pamela Murphy, pamela@aligneg.com
+1-646-596-8700

Source: International Music Academy-Switzerland

Pamela Murphy, +1-646-596-8700, pamela@aligneg.com

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