So Matsukawa
Conductor
ABOUT
So Matsukawa is a Japanese conductor born on August 23, 1992 in Tokyo.
In June 2024, he got 1st prize in the Brass Band Conductors’ Association’s (BBCA) conducting Competition2024 organized by Brass Band Conductors’ Association, sponsored by YAMAHA in Manchester, England. And conducted Foden’s Band at the award concert at Regent-hall, London.
And same month, he got 2nd prize in the CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI International Conducting Competition, 2nd Edition in Bucharest, Romania in June 2024, organized by the Silvestri Foundation and the Bucharest National Opera, and took place under the high patronage of the President of Romania and the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
In July 2023, he got 3rd prize in the 7th Ionel Perlea International Conductor Competition in Romania.
In September of the same year, he was selected as one of 17 out of 531 applicants and 111 participants in 1st International Ferenc Fricsay Conducting Competition in Hungary.
Also in December, he was selected as 7 semi-finalist out of 132 applicants in 3rd International Orchestra Conducting Competition “University of Almería” in Spain.
In the 2020 Yamada Sadao Music Foundation Conductor Audition in Japan, he received the Yamada Sadao Music Foundation Special Selection(1st prize) and Music Award and conducted Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra at the Laureate Concert.
In September 2024 he served as assistant to Robin Ticciati with London Philharmonic Orchestra Japan tour.
In February 2024 and November 2023 also, he served as assistant at the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO), where Robin Ticciati serves as music director, and conducted the offstage ensemble at the Philharmonie Berlin in the concert-style performance of “Tristan and Isolde” in February.
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- Brass Band Conductors’ Association’s (BBCA) conducting Competition2024で1位をいただきました
- CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI International Conducting Competition, 2nd Editionで2位をいただきました
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