高雄市交響楽団

1981年に設立され、2009年に高雄中国管弦楽団基金会と合併して「高雄フィルハーモニー文化芸術基金会」となり、現高雄市副市長の車志が初代理事長に就任した。現在の理事長は高雄市文化局長の王文煜。チュ・フンチャンは財団のCEOで、常任指揮者はウー・ヤオユである。過去10年間、ホセ・カレーラス(Ten)、ヴァディム・レーピン(Vn)、シュロモ・ミンツ(Vn)、諏訪内晶子(Vn)、庄司紗矢香(Vn)、リチャード・リン(Vn)、ミッシャ・マイスキー(Vc)、堤 剛(Vc)、ルドルフ・ブッフビンダー(Pf)、イーヴォ・ポゴレリッチ(Pf)、小曽根 真(Pf)、角野 隼斗(Pf)、セルゲイ・ナカリャコフ(Tp)、ポール・メイエ(Cl)などのソリストたちと共演している。2009年以来、高雄春季芸術祭で重要な役割を果たし、「高雄春季芸術祭草原コンサート 」の名声を確立し、「魔笛」、「椿姫」、「カルメン」、「ラ・ボエーム」、「蝶々夫人」、「愛の妙薬」などのオペラの全曲上演では、いずれも大きな反響と称賛を得た。アメリカ、マカオ、南京、上海、青島、蘇州、シンガポール、北京に相次いで招かれ、2017年金沢「風と緑の楽都音楽祭」や香港「台湾文化フェスティバル」にも招待された。

A city’s orchestra is a rare and precious attribute for any place to have. The Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra is a young, talented and energetic orchestra that strives to incorporate classical and cross-border performances into their repertoire, permeated with their unique passion. KSO creates high-quality themes for the fans of music; they cultivate countless seeds of appreciation in every person who sees them perform and thus extend the wings of classical music innovation.

Founded in 1981 and merged with the Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra Foundation in 2009 to form the “Kaohsiung Philharmonic Cultural and Arts Foundation,” with the current Kaohsiung City Deputy Mayor, SHIH Che, took up the post of the first President. The present chairperson of Foundation is WANG, Wen-Tsui, Director of Kaohsiung City’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs. CHU Hung-Chang is the CEO of Foundation and the resident conductor is WU Yao-Yu.

Over the past decade, KSO has continued to create a series of concerts performed jointly by famous domestic and foreign artists, including Conductor Zdenek MACAL, TAN Dun, CHIEN Wen-Pin, Shao-chia LÜ, CHEN Mei-Ann, CHUANG Tung-Chieh, LIN Chin-Chao and LIO Kuokman; Vocalists Jose CARRERAS and Hayley WESTENRA; Violinist Vadim REPIN, Shlomo MINTZ, Akiko SUWANAI, LIN Cho-Liang, HU Nai-Yuan, TSENG Yu-Chien, Ilya GRINGOLTS, Sayaka SHOJI and Richard LIN, Sergei DOGADIN; Cellists Mischa MAISKY, Tsuyoshi TSUTSUMI and YANG Wen-Sinn; Pianist PAIK Kun-Woo, Rudolf BUCHBINDER, Ivo POGORELICH, Gwhyneth CHEN, Makoto OZONE and Hayato SUMINO, Alexander GAVRYLYUK, Keigo MUKAWA; Trumpeter Sergie NAKARIAKOV; Clarinetist Paul MEYER, and Organist Iveta APKALNA and Felix HELL.

Since 2009, the orchestra has played a pivotal role in the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival and successfully established the reputation of the “Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival Grassland Concert.” KSO also took part in full opera production in Kaohsiung Spring Art Festival—Magic Flute, La Traviata, Carmen, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, L’elisir d’amore, Tosca and Rigoletto which all have gained significant resonance and praise from the audience.

On the international stage, KSO has been successively invited to perform in the USA, Macao, Nanking, Shanghai, Qingdao, Suzhou, Singapore and Beijing. Lately, KSO was invited to the Beethoven-themed Spring Green Music Festival in Kanazawa, Japan, as well as Hong Kong’s Taiwan Culture Festival. KSO will keep taking the international-level orchestra as the goal of self-enhancement and growth, steadily stepping beyond countries and borders, and moving forward firmly.