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This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

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Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro

conductor
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
1940
 
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi was born in 1940. He studied conducting under Akeo Watanabe and Kazuo Yamada at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1974 he attracted inernational attention when he won the very first Hungarian Television’s International Conductors Competition. Since then, he has not looked back and has conducted distinguished orchestras in Germany, Austria and England. In 1987, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Hungary State Symphony Orchestra (today the Hungary National Philharmonic Orchestra) and then General Music Director. In 1994, he received one of the Hungarian State’s highest awards. Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi is currently the principal conductor of the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1999 Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel/ Don Juan/ Kettősverseny AV 147
(Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel/ Don Juan/ Duett-Concertino AV 147) 		Hungaroton HRC 1043 Echo Collection