MAMORU TAKAHARA : NEW YORK SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE

Mamoru Takahara is in his thirteenth season as music director and conductor of the New York Symphonic Ensemble. Mr.Takahara began his musical career as a trumpeter, winning first place in the Youth Competition of Western Japan at age fifteen. He graduated from the Kunitachi Music College in Tokyo. In 1972 Mr.Takahara came to the United States at the invitation of Leonard Bernstein to study at the New York Philharmonic. He has also studied with Otmar Suitner in Salzburg, Australia.

Mr.Takahara made his American debut conducting the Philharmonic Virtuosi of New York in 1976 and was guest conductor of that orchestra until 1979. In July 1991, Mr.Takahara completed a three-week Japanese concert tour, which was the New York Symphonic Ensemble’s fifth concert tour of Japan. During the 1988 tour, Mr.Takahara had an unprecedented performance at the ancient Toshodaiji Temple in Nara, commemorating the 1,300th anniversary of the birth of Ganjin, the Buddhist sage.

In addition to his appearances with the New York Symphonic Ensemble, Mr.Takahara frequently returns to Japan to conduct such Japanese orchestra as the Tokyo Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, and the Nagoya Philharmonic orchestra. Recently, he has also been appointed to be a Music Director of Himeji city of Hyogo prefecture. Mr.Takahara records with Warner-Pioneer, Kitty, Toshiba-EMI and Technics

The New York Symphonic Ensemble’s concert at Thailand Cultural Centre on November 7, 1991