ONO Kazushi
Kazushi Ono is currently Music Director of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director of Opera of New National Theatre, Tokyo. He was formerly General Music Director of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Music Director of La Monnaie in Brussels, Principal Guest Conductor of Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, and Principal Conductor of Opéra National de Lyon. He received numerous awards including Palmarès du Prix de la Critique, Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Asahi Prize. He was selected to be a Person of Cultural Merits by the Japanese Government.
Ian BOSTRIDGE
Ian Bostridge has enjoyed resounding success in such opera houses as Wiener Staatsoper, ayerische Staatsoper, and English National Opera. He has performed with orchestras including Berliner Philharmoniker and Wiener Philharmoniker under batons of Rattle, C. Davis, Ozawa, Pappano, Muti, Barenboim and Harding, among others. Bostridge got Doctor’s degree at Oxford University. He was awarded a CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours.
