Seiji ozawa facts for kids

Seiji ozawa facts for kids: Ozawa was born on

Seiji Ozawa born 1 September is a Japanese conductor. His parents were Japanese. Shenyang was under Japanese occupation at the time. When his family returned to Japan in he started learning the piano. After hurting his finger in a game of rugby in he became interested in conducting. He studied at the Toho School of Music, Tokyo and graduated with first prizes in composition and conducting.

He was invited to the Tanglewood Music Center where he won a prize for conducting. Ozawa worked with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin. He conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at their summer residence, the Ravinia Festival, for five summers, then became director of the Toronto Symphony from to and music director of the San Francisco Symphony from to He often conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra and became its music director in , a post which he held for 29 years.

He became artistic director of Tanglewood in In he became music director of the Vienna State Opera , also conducting concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic.