Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra


The Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra is a professional orchestra in the city of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Founded concurrently with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in 2005, the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra is under the leadership of Yutaka Sado.

History

In 2002, Sado Yutaka became the artistic director of Hyogo Performing Arts Center. He held auditions for over 900 in 13 worldwide locations after advertising for talent, under the age of 35 in Asia, the United States, and France. He ended up with 48 members with most of them Japanese and an average age of 27. They were assembled only 2 months before opening so in order to build cohesion, they stayed in the same apartment building.

Performances

The orchestra gives roughly 120 performances per season, many of which are at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center. These include the Subscription Series, Masterworks Concerts, Children's and Family Concerts, Recital Series, School "Waku waku" concerts and Chamber Music.
In addition to this, the orchestra participates in an annual performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony featuring a 10,000 person choir and makes at least one annual appearance on TV Asahi's weekly television program "".

Members

The orchestra employees a fixed number of core members in addition to "associate" and "affiliate" members.

Training element

Although it is first and foremost a professionally performing orchestra, the HPAC Orchestra was founded with the aim of having a training element as well. It is only similar to other training orchestras in that there is a limited contract length and age limit.