KanakoHirota
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I'm a conductor and studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
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Kanako Hirota entered the Bachelor's Programme Conducting of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in March 2024.
She entered the Undergraduate Program Conducting of the Tokyo College of Music as a scholarship student, and earned a bachelor's degree in 2022.

She won the 3rd Prize at the 2nd edition of the Italian Conducting Competition "Alceo Galliera" 2023 in Bordighera, Italy.
She won BMI Mention at the 4th edition of the BMI International Conducting Competition 2022 in Bucharest, Romania.
She was selected as one of the 6 semi-finalists out of 634 applicants at the 2nd edition of the Lake Como International Conducting Competition 2022 in Bellano, Italy.
She was invited to the final audition as one of the 10 candidates at the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo vol.4 "Attila" 2024 in Tokyo, Japan.
She was selected as one of the 10 candidates over 120 applicants at the Mills Williams Junior Fellowship in Conducting auditions of the Royal Northern College of Music 2024 in Manchester, the UK.
She was a semi-finalist at the 2nd edition of the Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition 2024 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

She has taken part in Turandot performance as assistant conductor at the 26th Miyazaki international music festival 2021.
She played the chelesta in the orchestra at the 21st music festival Argerich's meeting point in Beppu 2019.
She played the piano at Drammen Arts Festival 2024.

She participated in masterclasses by Jorma Panula, Sian Edwards, Mark Heron, Boris Belkin, Tsugio Tokunaga.
She is studying conducting under Marc Piollet, and studied conducting under Junichi Hirokami, Toshifumi Tashiro, Nobutaka Masui, Akihito Mihara, Toshihiro Yonezu.
Born in Toyama, Japan in 1999. She began to learn piano at the age of seven.
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My REPERTORY Some Of My Repertory
〈Haydn〉
・Symphony No. 82 "The Bear"
・Symphony No. 83 "The Hen"
・Symphony No. 100 "Military"
・Symphony No. 104 "London"

〈Mozart〉
・Symphony No. 29
・Symphony No. 36 "Linz"
・Symphony No. 39
・Symphony No. 40
・Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
・"Don Giovanni" Overture
・"Le nozze di Figaro" Overture
・Piano Concerto No. 21
・Serenade No. 13 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
・Divertimento K. 138

〈Beethoven〉
・Symphony No. 1
・Symphony No. 2
・Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
・Symphony No. 4
・Symphony No. 5
・Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
・Symphony No. 7
・Symphony No. 8
・Symphony No. 9
・"Coriolan" Overture
・"Fidelio" Overture
・Violin Concerto

〈Weber〉
・"Oberon" Overture
・"Der Freischutz" Overture

〈Rossini〉
・"Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Overture

〈Schubert〉
・Symphony No. 5
・Symphony No. 7 "Unfinished"

〈Berlioz〉
・Symphonie fantastique

〈Glinka〉
・"Ruslan and Lyudmila" Overture

〈Mendelssohn〉
・Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
・Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
・"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture

〈Schumann〉
・Symphony No. 2
・Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"
・Piano Concerto

〈Wagner〉
・Siegfried Idyll
・"Tannh$00E4user" Overture

〈Verdi〉
・Attila
・"I Vespri Siciliani" Overture

〈Bruckner〉
・Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"

〈Johann Strauss II〉
・An der schonen blauen Donau
・"Die Fledermaus" Overture

〈Joseph Strauss〉
・Feuerfest Polka

〈Brahms〉
・Symphony No. 1
・Symphony No. 2
・Symphony No. 3
・Symphony No. 4
・Ein deutsches Requiem
・Variations on a Theme by Haydn
・Academic Festival Overture
・Tragic Overture
・Violin Concerto
・Double Concerto
・Serenade No. 1

〈Bizet〉
・"L'Arlesienne" Suite 2
・"Carmen" Suite 1 and 2

〈Mussorgsky〉
・Pictures at an Exhibition

〈Tchaikovsky〉
・Symphony No. 4
・Symphony No. 5
・Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"
・"The Nutcracker" Suite
・ Fantasy Overture "Romeo and Juliet"
・Variations on a Rococo Theme
・Serenade for Strings

〈Dvorak〉
・Symphony No. 8
・Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
・Czech Suite

〈Grieg〉
・Piano Concerto

〈Rimsky-Korsakov〉
・Scheherazade

〈Elgar〉
・"Pomp and Circumstance" March No. 1
・Enigma Variations
・Serenade for Strings

〈Mahler〉
・Symphony No. 9

〈Debussy〉
・Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune

〈Mascagni〉
・Cavalleria Rusticana

〈Richard Strauss〉
・Don Juan
・Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
・Duet-Concertino

〈Sibelius〉
・Symphony No. 3
・Finlandia
・Alla Marcia from Karelia Suite
・Violin Concerto

〈Karinnikov〉
・Symphony No. 1

〈Lehar〉
・Die lustige Witwe

〈Vaughan Williams〉
・Concerto Accademico

〈Rachmaninoff〉
・Symphony No. 2
・Symphonic Dances
・Isle of the Dead
・Piano Concerto No. 2
・Piano Concerto No. 3

〈Schonberg〉
・Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene

〈Ravel〉
・Pavane pour une infante defunte
・Piano Concerto

〈Respighi〉
・Pini di Roma
・Antiche danze ed arie per liuto Suite No. 3

〈Stravinsky〉
・The Firebird Suite (1919 version)
・The Rite of Spring
・L'Histoire du soldat
・Concerto in D

〈Prokofiev〉
・Symphony No. 1 "Classical"
・Violin Concerto No. 1
・Violin Concerto No. 2

〈Gershwin〉
・An American in Paris

〈Copland〉
・Appalachian Spring

〈Grace Williams〉
・Sea Sketches

〈Shostakovich〉
・Festive Overture

〈Atsutada Otaka〉
・Violin Concerto

〈Steven Mackey〉
・Micro-Concerto

〈Sally Beamish〉
・Variations on a Theme of Benjamin Britten
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Kanako Hirota

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