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Ken Hsieh

1980年カナダ生まれ。6歳よりカナダ王立音楽院でピアノ、12歳より打楽器を学ぶ。ブリティッシュ・コロンビア大学でピアノと打楽器を専攻後、桐朋学園、洗足学園にて指揮課程を修了。指揮を秋山和慶、故岡部守弘、故湯浅勇治らに師事。現在、バンクーバーメトロポリタンオーケストラの音楽監督兼首席指揮者を務め、就任13年を迎えた。2007年までバンクーバー交響楽団のアシスタント指揮も務め、地元バンクーバーでの人気は非常に高い。2005年カナダ・オンタリオ州芸術評議会より『ハインツ・ウンガー賞』、2006年カナダ政府文化評議会より最優秀若手指揮者に与えられる『ジャン・マリ・バデ賞』を授与。これまでにラムルー管（フランス）、フィンランド放送響、CBCラジオオーケストラ（カナダ）、オーケストラロンドン（カナダ）、台湾国立響、エヴァグリーン響（台湾）、上海フィル、上海響他に客演、北米、アジアで目覚ましい活躍をしている。国内では、兵庫芸術文化センター管弦楽団、広島交響楽団、オーケストラアンサンブル金沢の定期演奏会を指揮。その他、新日本フィル、群馬交響楽団、大阪（現：日本）センチュリー交響楽団、京都市交響楽団、日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団、九州交響楽団等に多数客演、国内でも実績を重ねている。
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Ken Hsieh

Canadian Conductor, Kenneth Hsieh has emerged as one of the top rising young conductors to watch. The 2011-2012 season marks his ninth year as Music Director of the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra in addition to his several international guest conducting engagements. He has maintained a close relation with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra where he has conducted their subscription, masterworks, and educational series. This upcoming season will see Ken making his Beethoven Symphony 9 debut with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall, as well as a return engagement to conduct the Japan Century Orchestra in Beethoven Symphony 9 at The Symphony Hall in Osaka, produced by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.

Born in Edmonton, Canada, Ken is the winner of several prizes including the Heinz Unger Award in Conducting and the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestral Conducting. At the age of 22, Ken was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival (founded by Leonard Bernstein) where he worked with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra as well as serving as an assistant and collaborator to Bernard Haitink, Edo De Waart, Krzysztof Penderecki, Seikyo Kim, Yutaka Sado and Ken Takaseki. The following year, Ken became the youngest ever Conductor-in-residence/Assistant Conductor with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the National Academy Orchestra where from 2004-2007; he conducted over 100 performances from the Main Subscription series to lighter and pops series concerts with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

He has collaborated with a wide range of distinguished artists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Mayuko Kamio, Tamaki Kawakubo, Janina Fialkowska, Ryu Goto, Anastasia Chebetorova, Holly Cole, Natalie McMaster, Ikuyo Nakamichi, Kosuke Atari, Three Celtic Tenors, and John Pizzarelli. Several of his concerts have been recorded live and broadcasted on CBC Radio across Canada. His concerts have also been broadcasted on television in Taiwan, Japan, Canada, and the USA. Ken made his France debut with the historical l’orchestre Lamoureux, performing at their subscription concert at the Theatre Champs-Elysee in Paris, France.
Remaining dedicated to promoting young artists and education; Ken works often with Youth orchestras including the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, Surrey Youth Orchestra, BCMEA Honor Orchestra, as well as the Japan Junior Philharmonic Orchestra as their summer session conductor in a series of concerts that included a benefit concert for the United Nations (World Food Program) in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space. He is a guest professor and conductor with the National Tainan University and has worked with the Geidai Philharmonia, preparing them for the Martha Argerich Festival in Beppu, which was later conducted by Antonio Pappano and Seikyo Kim.

Ken’s internationally renowned conducting teachers and coaches have include: Kurt Masur, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Morihiro Okabe, Yuji Yuasa, Ronald Zollman, and Jorma Panula. He is a graduate of both the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of British Columbia where he majored in piano and percussion. He completed his post-graduate studies in orchestral conducting in Japan at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and the Senzoku College of Music on full scholarship and did further studies in Vienna, Austria with Yuji Yuasa.

In addition, Ken has been a guest conductor with orchestras in Europe, Asia, and the Americas; including l’orchestre Lamroureux, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Century Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra London, Siena Wind Orchestra, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, and has made two recordings with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa on Avex Label.