The Pacific Music Festival (PMF) (パシフィック・ミュージック・フェスティバル札幌 (Pashifikku Myūjikku Fesutibaru Sapporo)) is an international classical music festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan. It was founded in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein, along with the London Symphony Orchestra, and 123 young musicians from 18 countries. The original artistic directors were Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.
History
2018 / 29th
7 Jul (Sat) - 1 August (Wed) for 26 days
2017 / 28th
8 July - 1 August
Artists
Conductors
Artistic Directors
- Leonard Bernstein (1990)
- Michael Tilson Thomas (1990–2000)
- Christoph Eschenbach (1991, 93-98)
- Charles Dutoit (2000–02)
- Fabio Luisi (2010–12)
- Valery Gergiev (2015–2019)
Principal Conductors
- Marin Alsop (1990, 2019)
- Bernard Haitink (2003)
- Valery Gergiev (2004, 06)
- Nello Santi (2005)
- Riccardo Muti (2007)
- Fabio Luisi (2008)
- Jun Märkl (2013, 15, 17)
- John Axelrod (2016, 18)
- Lahav Shani (2022)
Guest Conductors
- Edo de Waart (2003)
- Fabio Luisi (2004)
- Jun Märkl (2005, 08)
- Yakov Kreizberg (2006)
- Philippe Jordan (2007)
- Andrey Boreyko (2007)
- Tadaaki Otaka (2008)
- Xian Zhang (2009)
- Krzysztof Urbański (2011)
- Eivind Gullberg Jensen (2012)
- Alexander Vedernikov (2013)
- Andris Poga (2015)
- Edwin Outwater (2018)
Faculty
Orchestra (2019 season)
Violin
- Rainer Küchl / former concertmaster of the Wiener Phiharmoniker
- Daniel Froschauer / Wiener Philharmoniker
- David Chan / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Stephen Rose / Cleveland Orchestra
Viola
- Heinrich Koll / former principal of the Wiener Philharmoniker
- Daniel Foster / National Symphony Orchestra
Cello
- Stefan Gartmayer / Wiener Philharmoniker
- Rafael Figueroa / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Double Bass
- Michael Bladerer / Wiener Philharmoniker
- Alexander Hanna / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Flute
- Andreas Blau / former principal of the Berliner Philharmoniker
- Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Oboe
- Andreas Wittmann / Berliner Philharmoniker
- Eugene Izotov / San Francisco Symphony
Clarinet
- Alexander Bader / Berliner Philharmoniker
- Stephen Williamson / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bassoon
- Stefan Schweigert / Berliner Philharmoniker
- Daniel Matsukawa / Philadelphia Orchestra
Horn
- Sarah Willis / Berliner Philharmoniker
- William Caballero / Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet
- Tamás Velenczei / Berliner Philharmoniker
- Mark J. Inouye / San Francisco Symphony
Trombone
- Jesper Busk Sørensen / Berliner Philharmoniker
- Denson Paul Pollard / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Percussion
- Cynthia Yeh / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Timpani
- David Herbert / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Harp
- Ladislav Papp / Wiener Staatsoper
- Mariko Anraku / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Vocal Academy (2019 season)
- Gabriella Tucci
Conducting Academy
- Leonard Bernstein (1990)
- Fabio Luisi (2010–12)
- Andris Poga (2015)
- John Axelrod (2016)
- Jun Märkl (2017)
References
External links
- PMF Official Website
