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Department Faculty:
Profile:
Hisao Watanabe has established an exciting professional
conducting career based upon a fascinating and rich musical background.
Prior to joining Lane Community College, he was the founder and Music
Director of the Lexington Sinfonietta in Lexington, Massachusetts and
taught at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina as
Director of Orchestra. He has been a frequent guest conductor,
appearing with the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, Pioneer Valley
Symphony, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Wellesley Symphony
Orchestra, and the North Shore Philharmonic. The House of
Representatives in Massachusetts acknowledged his musical outreach in a
detention center in Boston and cultural contribution to the community
of Lexington in 2000.
His Boston appearances have been complemented by work at
the Nova Scotia ( Canada) Music Festival under the direction of Pierre
Boulez and the Round Top ( Texas) Music Festival where he served as
assistant to Pascal Verrot. His appearances at colleges and
universities include the New England Conservatory, Miami University of
Ohio, and the Middlesex Community College Theatre. He was chosen by the
Massachusetts Music Educators Association to conduct the Northeastern
Senior District Concert. Professional conducting engagements have
included the Cedar Falls ( Iowa) Symphony Orchestra and the Green Bay (
Wisconsin) Symphony Orchestra. In June 2005, he was invited as a
conducting fellow to the National Arts Center in Ontario, Canada by
Pinchas Zukerman and Jorma Panula.
Hisao Watanabe completed both his master’s degree
and a Performance Certificate in Conducting at the New England
Conservatory, studying with Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot. His
diverse experience includes extensive chamber music experience as a
pianist and a B.M. in Piano Performance at the Chicago Musical College
of Roosevelt University where his teachers were Ludmilla Lazar and
Feliz Ganz. He also has ensemble experience and advanced study in
trumpet, including study with Charles Geyer and Tom Crown. He did
graduate study in Music Theory with Fred Lerdahl and William Rothstein
at the University of Michigan where he was highly successful as a
graduate teaching assistant. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Watanabe has been a
resident of the United States since 1977.
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