Prof.Joji Hattori 身兼小提琴家及指揮家兩種身份，目前也是曼紐因大賽的President， 將於12/6 至本系舉辦小提琴大師班，歡迎大家把握機會前往聽講。
※主講人： Prof.Joji Hattori
※主題：Violin Master Class
※時間：2010年12月6日(一)13:10~14:50
※地點：北藝大音樂廳 2F S2教室
(請由音樂廳後台入口進入)
Joji Hattori is one of the leading Japanese musicians of his generation and has enjoyed a very varied career as a musician, firstly as a concert violinist, an activity which has developed into directing chamber orchestras, conducting symphony orchestras and finally operas. He has been Associate Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra since 2004 and during the 2007/08 season served as Principal Resident Conductor of the Opera House in Erfurt, Germany. For the year 2009 he was appointed Music Director of the Summer Festival at the Castle Kittsee (Burgenland, Austria). Joji Hattori is also Music Director of the Tokyo Ensemble, a project-based chamber orchestra he founded in 2001.
As guest conductor he regularly works with many distinguished orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra London, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Slovakian Philharmonic or the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra Japan. June 2009 will see his debut at the Vienna State Opera, where he will conduct 3 performances of Mozart’s Magic Flute.
He started playing the violin at the age of five and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music, followed by further studies with Yehudi Menuhin and Vladimir Spivakov. In 1989 he won the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in England. After a decade of international activities as a violin soloist, he turned to conducting and in 2002 participated at the inaugural Maazel-Vilar Conductor’s Competition where he was given a major award. Lorin Maazel enabled him to give his conducting debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall and continues to support his career.
Apart from his performing activities, he is President of the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London of which he was made an Honorary Member in 2003. He also studied sociology at Oxford University (St.Antony College).