International Oboe Competition of Japan

2023/ Oboe

Application Due: 14.03.2023

Competition Dates: 10.09.2023

Total Prize Money: JPY 2.400.000 Travel support: Restricted

Other Awards: tbc Streaming: yes

Encouragement Award, Sony Award, etc

Jury: Hansjörg Schellenberger, Ken-ichi Furube, Gordon Hunt, Ramon Ortega Quero, Dwight Parry, Isao Tsuji, Masaru Yoshida

Artists: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazufumi Yamashita etc

The International Oboe Competition of Japan” was founded with the idea of our former chairman, Norio Ohga (1930-2011), who had been intrigued with the innocent and comforting sound of the oboe and had advocated its importance as the instrument that could determine the quality of an entire orchestra. Sony Music Foundation has been presenting the competition every three years since 1985. It is aimed to promote the true artistic value of the oboe, as well as to contribute to the development of the culture of music with an international perspective by discovering and fostering talented musicians and help them expand their scope of activities both in Japan and abroad. It has established its recognition as an international competition unique in the world as solely dedicated to the oboe, with past winners going on to become international figures obtaining principal and solo positions at world renowned orchestras, such as L'Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestra de Paris, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, London Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, to name a few.

WFIMC Member since 2011

Tokyo, Japan

www.conductingtokyo.org / conductingtokyo@min-on.or.jp