Biography
Saito Kinen Orchestra
Real name: サイトウ・キネン・オーケストラ
Effective period / Period of releases: 1990 - 2024
Members: Siegfried Pank, Christine Schornsheim, Sadao Harada, Shigeru Ishikawa, Shigenori Kudo, Aiko Goto, Thomas Rohde, Akio Koyama, Kuniko Kato, Masuko Ushioda, Stefan Altner, Björn Vestre, Otto Winter (2), Sawako Yasue, Nobuyuki Mizuno, Akira Akahoshi, Hartmut Brauer, Shoko Aki, Ken-Ichi Furube, Sébastian Jacot
The Saito Kinen Orchestra is an orchestra formed annually for the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, under the leadership of Seiji Ozawa and Kazuyoshi Akiyamaduring, which is held every August and September in Matsumoto city, Nagano, Japan. The orchestra is managed by the Saito Kinen Foundation.