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OSAMU SASAKI
Osamu Sasaki was born on the 15th of January, 1955, in Hirosaki, Japan.
From 1974 to 1977 he studied at the Music Institute "Musashino" in Tokyo. After receiving his diploma in Music Pedagogy in 1977, he went to Salzburg and began to study conducting at the Hochschule "Mozarteum" under Professor Gerhard Wimberger and GMD Professor Bernharad Conz.
In March 1982 he received his diploma in a conducting with highest honors. He was then awarded a scholarship for foreigners from the Austrian government for the academic years l980-1982.
In the spring of 1978 he participated in conducting course with Maestro Serjiu Celibidache in Trier, and he visited many rehearsals of Celibidache in Stuttgart and Munich.
In the summers of 1978, 1979 and 1980 he participated in conducting courses with Professor Walter Weller and Professor Milan Horvath during the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum. Each time he was chosen as a participating conductor for the final concert.
In September 1979 Osamu Sasaki was a finalist in the International Conducting Competition of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Berlin. Herbert von Karajan allowed him to assist at his rehearsals in the Salzburg Festivals.
He has also enjoyed considerable success with the Mozarteum school orchestra in concerts and opera performances. For example, on May 14th and 15th 1981, he conducted G. Puccini's opera "Gianni Schicchi" in the Grosses Studio of the school as a production of the opera department.
From 1981 to 1984 he was the permanent conductor of this orchestra, and in October 1982 he received an official offer for this position, as well as for the artistic management of the orchestra at the Music Institute "Mozarteum".
In January 1982 and 1983 he conducted the Mozart Matinee during the International Mozart Week Festival in Salzburg. In November 1982 he was awarded the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal of the International Foundation Mozarteum. In 1983 Osamu Sasaki was accepted into the Group of Advanced Artists of the "Salzburg Association April 1984 he conducted a concert with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
Since 1984 he has lived in Japan, where he has conducted many famous orchestras and choruses. For example, the New Japan Phil, Yomiuri SO, Kyoto SO, Osaka Symphoniker, Nagoya Phil. From 1986 to 1990 he worked at the Nikikai Opera in Osaka.
In August 1996 he conducted " the Atlanta Symphony" with the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra in a special Olympic programme for Fuji-TV.
Since 1999 he is the Music-Planner of Osaka Symphoniker.
In April 1987 he started his second career as a TV-Radio personality on music programmes. For example, the NHK FM Symphony Concert, FM 802 From Suntory Hall, and TV-Tokyo's Tamori's Music World
Since 1994 he has worked with Toyota Motor Corporation as music director for new car press conferences, director of mecenat's Homepage and assistant for " After 5 Cocert
Since September 1996 he pruduce his HomePage " Maestro Sasaki" on Internet.
In April 1999,when i-mode stated in Japan, he cared about a possibility of a mobile phone in all fieled. So in summer1999 he opened musical database for a mobile phone. In 2000 he started mobile contents 'Luna' for young lady as an official contents of EZWeb.
In autumn 2001'ORCHETRAL MUSIC-DB' opened.