The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
www.kanakoabe.com Japanese conductor, composer and pianist born in Osaka, Kanako studied Piano from the age of 2. After her graduation at Tokyo University of Arts and at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, she started her career first as a pianist. Her CD for Takemitsu solo piano works released in 2000 was highly appreciated by the critic. In 2005 she founded a chamber orchestra for contemporary music based in Paris “Ensemble Multilatérale” and became its music director (until 2014). Her repertoire covers from baroque to contemporary music. Especially, contemporary music is her speciality. She premiered more than 200 compositions and made lot of radio & CD recording in close collaboration with several composers including Jonathan Harvey, Marc-André Dalbavie, Michael Jarrell. She also conducted operas, such as “La Traviata”, “Macbeth” and “Die Zauberflöte” at Zürich Opera House, Opéra national Montpellier Occicitanie and Rhin National Opera. In 2013 Fabio Luisi asked her to be his assistant conductor at the Festival della Valle d'Itria. While attending to her aesthetic interest to different style of music, she conducts the orchestra such as Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Phiharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic. As for social contribution, she organized and conducted in 2011 and 2012 at UNESCO, the charity concert for the victims of Earthquake and Tsunami in Tôhoku, sponsored by the Embassy of Japan. She also has a strong passion on education. She founded in 2014 the Indonesian Youth Symphony Orchestra and became its Music Director. She is currently the Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique des Dômes, the president of The Association Franco Japonaise de la Musique Contemporaine, Artistic Director of Ensemble Orochi, also she is Music Partner of Tokyo Ensemnable Factory and Ensemble Muromachi. In July 2022 she made her debut to the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducting the world premiere of "Woman At Point Zero" composed by Bushra El-Turk. From April 2023 she makes the worldwide tours with "Woman At Point Zero" production, including the Royal Opera House in London and the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna.
Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (2024,2026) Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra (2024,2025) Albanian National Radio-Television Orchestra (2024) Fujiwara Opera (2024, 2025) Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (2023) Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra (2023) Kobe Philharmonic Orchestra (2023,2026) Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine (2023) New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (2026,2023,2022) Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra (2025,2023,2022) Orchestre de Chambre de Genève (2021) Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine (2021) Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra (2020) Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (2025,2024, 2021, 2019) Ensemble XXI de Genève (2018) Osaka Symphony Orchestra (2017) Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (2017) Orchestre Région Centre-Val de Loire Tours (2017) Ensemble Muromachi (2016) Orchestre de Picardie (2016) Ensemble Polychronies (2024, 2016) Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (2015) Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra (2024,2015) Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Japan (2015) Orchestre de Caen (2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2015) Tokyo Ensemnable Factory (2016,2014) Orkes Mahasiswa ISI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2019, 2014, 2013) Orchestre National de Lorraine (2016, 2014, 2009, 2007) Orchestre I Musici Brucellensis, Brussels,Belgium(2026,2020, 2018, 2013) Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest, Romania (2012) Japonaide Orchestra, Paris France (2012, 2011) Orchestre Pasdeloup (2023, 2011) Smash Ensemble (2010) Orchestre National de Montpellier Roussillon-Languedoc (2009, 2008) Orchestre Régional de Bayonne Côte-Basque (2024, 2009, 2008) Ensemble l'Itinéraire (2009, 2007, 2006, 2004) Orchestre du Festival des Monts de la Madeleine (2009, 2008, 2007) Orchestre des Etudiants du CNSM de Paris (2009, 2007, 2006) Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice (2007) Ensemble Zellig (2007) Orchestre National de Lille (2006) Orchestre National d'Auvergne (2025,2004) New European Ensemble (2025) Nissay Theater Orchestra (2025) Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra (2025) Tokyo Women's Orchestra (2025,2026)
Berceuse pour soprano et piano (1989) Sonate pour clarinette et piano (1991) Hymne pour les choeurs mixtes (1991) Sonatine pour clarinette et piano (1992) Quatuor à cordes (1993) J’aime ma planète pour les choeurs d’enfant (1993) Le terminus paradis ( la musique de scène ) (1995) L’illusion oscillante pour baryton et piano (1996) Fluvium aquae vitae pour grand orchestre (1997) Chant du jardin automnal pour deux violoncelles (2003) (éditions Armiane) Takasago pour hichiriki et ensemble (2017) Narasi pour violoncelle solo (2019) Shijima pour orchestra (2021) Le fils abandonné pour percussions, choeur d’enfants et narrateur (2021) Regards croisés pour mezzo-soprano, shakuhachi et shamisen (2021) L’espoir pour soprano, trompette et piano (2021) Padre (opera) (2022) Dancingmania (2024) Danses festives et fatales (2024) Kaze no mutsubi for organ and orchestra (2025)
CD/DVD Régis Campo 'Music Today' (1999) (Mandala ref : MAN 4948) Toru Takemitsu 'Works for piano' (2002) (Mandala ref : MAN 5047) Régis Campo 'Autoportraits' (2004) (Mandala ref : MAN 5084) Colin Roche 'La Robe des choses' (2007) (Sismal Records) Régis Campo 'Laterna Magica' (2013) (MusiCube ref : CUB 1302) Orchestra Nipponika Works of Japanese composer vol.6 (2016) (EXTON ref : OVCL- 583) Yassen Vodenitcharov ‘The Snow Woman, Persian Miniatures, The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ (2018) (Gaga New ref: GD 401402) Jummei Suzuki ‘La Romanesca’ (2021) (fontec ref: FOCD2586) Sômei Satoh “Like the Dyer’s Hand” (2021) (ALM Records ref: ALCD-127) FANNY MENDELSSOHN / GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE / AUGUSTA HOLMÈS / ÉDITH CANAT DE CHIZY / ANNA CLYNE / BUSHRA EL-TURK / CAMILLE PÉPIN Orchestre Pasdeloup(2023)(Présence Compositrice) Radio France Alla Breve (2011) https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/alla-breve-l-integrale/pulse-de-pasquale-corrado-pour-six-instruments-diffusion-integrale-26132 Prix Italia (2012) https://soundcloud.com/rivas-sebastian/sets/la-nuit-hallucinee-radio-opera-prix-italia-2012 Le magazine de la contemporaine (2015) https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/le-magazine-de-la-contemporaine/les-invites-kanako-abe-mihi-kim-et-mathieu-godefroy-16853