Festa Summer MUZA KAWASAKI 2025
[sold out] Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Opening Concert14:20-

With his immense charisma and inspired programming drawing on a symphonic repertoire that extends from Schubert and Bruckner to Mahler and Shostakovich, and to the very edge of creation in the world of contemporary music, conductor Jonathan Nott shares his musical and human experience at the highest level.

Jonathan Nott began his career at the opera houses in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden where he conducted all major works of the repertoire including Wagner's complete Ring cycle.

Well known for the power, vigor and clarity of his interpretations of Mahler, Jonathan Nott was invited in 2012 to conduct the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Debussy, Schoenberg and Ravel, resulting in his appointment as Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 2014 season. Together with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Nott led 'Elektra' in concert style to the best concert in the 'Concert Top Ten' by Ongaku no Tomo Magazine and 'Salome' to the 'Best 10 Performances' by Mainichi Classic Navi as well as the Music Pen Club Music Prize in 2020.

He has simultaneously held the post of Music and Artistic Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande since 2017. He also brings inspiration to young artists through his loyal and long term commitment to the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and to the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

Jonathan Nott has conducted most of the renowned contemporary orchestras and formations, working alongside Györgi Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann and Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as composers of his own generation.

He has an extensive and eclectic catalog of highly acclaimed recordings including works by Mahler, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra on Octavia Records, the complete orchestral works of Ligeti with the Berlin Phil., the complete symphonic works of Schubert and Mahler with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Mahler's Song of the Earth with the Vienna Phil. and Jonas Kaufmann.

The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, together with music director Jonathan Nott, has been attracting attention as a leader in the Japanese orchestra world.《Elektra in Concert Style(2023)》won the 1st prize in the “Top 10 Concert 2023” following the 2nd prize of《Salome in Concert Style(2022)》on Ongaku no Tomo magazine as well as the Best Recording of Music Pen club Japan Award for Opera & Orchestra category and Tokyo Symphony Chorus, Orchestra's amateur chorus also won the prize for Chamber & Chorus category.

Highlights of past seasons with Mo. Nott include Symphony 9 by Beethoven filmed by 45 cameras, the largest record of the orchestra history live-streamed nationwide, Gurre-Lieder by Schoenberg celebrating 15th Anniversary of Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, TSO's home and Mozart's Da Ponte Operas in concert style. In March 2020, the live-streamed concert without audience on nico-nico Live Channel which attracted more than 200,000 viewers nationwide, has been a mega-hit in Japan.

Outside of Japan, the orchestra has performed 80 concerts in 58 cities since 1976. The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1946 as Toho Symphony Orchestra, and changed its name to Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in April 1951, and has a reputation for giving first performances of a number of contemporary music and opera, and has been regularly performing various operas and ballets at the New National Opera Theatre, Tokyo since its opening in 1997.