Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi & Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Popular Japanese conductor Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi originally trained to be a composer and he still engages with writing to this day. Beethoven awakened in him an interest in composition, and as a young boy he felt that “if some giant thing can be created from ‘nothing’, then it is worth sacrificing an entire life to conquering the world of composition.” Beethoven remains a key composer in the conducting career of Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi. But what is the situation with the music of Zoltán Kodály? György Kroó once heard that the conductor “by bringing certain wind parts to the forefront gave the piece a certain oriental timbre so that the audience began to meditate on whether on the map this Galánta wasn’t perhaps a few thousand kilometres further to the east than previously thought. Whatever, it takes considerable talent to start from one’s own reading and not trying to copy a known recorded production. Naturally, aside from this oriental timbre there was enough Hungarian and Kodály character left in the production to bring audience members to their feet.” Kobayashi’s relationship with the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and its students intensified in 2012, since when he has worked with the Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra on several occasions.