Announcement of the winners of the 32rd (2024) Akio Watanabe Music Foundation Music Award and Special Award
32rd (2024) Watanabe Akio Music Foundation Music Award and Special Award Recipient
◆Music Awards None
◆Special Award: Nobuo Nishiyama
◆Special Award: Nobuo Nishiyama
[Biography]
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1956. Joined Yomiuri Travel Co., Ltd. in 1980.
1981年読売日本交響楽団欧州公演41日間（指揮ラファエル・フリューベック・デ・ブルゴス氏）、1984年東京フィルハーモニー交響楽団欧州公演49日間（指揮尾高忠明氏）、1985年日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団欧州公演51日間（指揮渡邉曉雄氏、小林研一郎氏）、1985年徳仁親王（現天皇陛下）のオックスフォード大学卒業コンサートを始め、現在迄にNHK交響楽団等全国幾多のオーケストラの海外公演を44年間で80回あまりアレンジ・添乗する。100人を超す楽団員・楽器の移動・宿泊に安全、安心、体調面を常に心掛けている。
In 2024, he will continue to perform overseas.
[Reason for award]
For 43 years, Nishiyama Nobuo worked at Yomiuri Travel Co., Ltd., where he was responsible for arranging travel, accommodation, instrument transportation, and other matters for numerous Japanese orchestras traveling overseas for performances. He has been in charge of 14 orchestras, covering a total of 59 overseas performances*, including those that were full members of the Association of Japanese Symphony Orchestras. (*Including cancellations due to COVID-19, etc.)
For orchestras, overseas performances are extremely significant, further honing the orchestra's capabilities and individuality and fulfilling its role in promoting international cultural exchange through music. However, maintaining the condition of each individual orchestra member in an unfamiliar environment can often be extremely challenging. In these circumstances, Mr. Watanabe's extensive knowledge brilliantly supports the performances, and his approach to understanding the musicians' personalities and emotions has earned him great reassurance and trust from his fellow musicians. His contributions to the success of each orchestra's overseas performances, and ultimately to the active implementation of numerous overseas tours, have been immense, supporting the dramatic development of Japanese orchestras. For these reasons, we hereby present him with the Watanabe Akio Music Foundation Special Award.
List of Watanabe Akeo Music Fund Awardees
1st (1993) Music Award: Kazushi Ono Special Award: Sennosuke Enmei
2nd (1994) Music Award: Junichi Hirokami Special Award: Chiaki Murakawa
3rd (1995) Music Award: No recipients Special Award: Takashi Ogawa, Seizo Suzuki, Jun Tanaka
4th (1996) Music Award: Ken Takaseki Special Award: No recipient
5th (1997) Music Award: No winner Special Award: Keizo Saji
6th (1998) Music Award: Kim Hong-jae Special Award: Ishimaru Hiroshi
7th (1999) Music Award: Ryusuke Numajiri Special Award: Chiyoshige Matsubara
8th (2000) Music Award: Naoto Otomo Special Award: Minoru Nagaoka, Toshiya Eto
9th (2001) Music Award: No recipients Special Award: No recipients
10th (2002) Music Award: Tatsuya Shimono, Yukio Fujioka Special Award: Shoji Uehara
11th (2003) Music Award: Yutaka Sado Special Award: Masaharu Watanabe, Naozumi Yamamoto
12th (2004) Music Award: Tetsuro Saka Special Award: Akira Miyoshi
13th (2005) Music Award: Norichika Iimori Special Award: Tsuzo Kusakari
14th (2006) Music Award: No winners Special Award: Shigeto Kanayama, Hiroshi Okawauchi
15th (2007) Music Award: Toshiyuki Ueoka Special Award: Shoji Onodera, Japan Philharmonic Kyushu Performance Liaison Committee (Group)
16th (2008) Music Award: No winner Special Award: Hiroyuki Iwaki
17th (2009) Music Award: No winners Special Award: Jean Fournet, Affinis Cultural Foundation
18th (2010) Music Award: No winners Special Award: Hiroshi Wakasugi, Museum of Modern Japanese Music
19th (2011) Music Award: No recipients Special Award: Seiji Ozawa Special Support: Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra
20th (2012) Music Award: Kazuki Yamada Special Award: Yasuo Nakafuji
21st (2013) Music Award: No winner Special Award: Nagata Ho
22nd (2014) Music Award: No winner Special Award: Kodama Koji
23rd (2015) Music Award: Kentaro Kawase Special Award: Hubert Soudant, Kazuyoshi Akiyama
24th (2016) Music Award: No recipients Special Award: Alexander Lazarev, Shinichiro Ikebe, Michiyoshi Inoue
25th (2017) Music Award: No winners Special Award: Yuzo Toyama, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
26th (2018) Music Award: No recipients Special Award: Eliahu Inbal
27th (2019) Music Award: No winners Special Award: Honna Tetsuji, Yamada Masayuki
28th (2020) Music Award: Nodoka Okisawa Special Award: Yasuhisa Toyoda
29th (2021) Music Award: Masato Suzuki and Keitaro Harada Special Award: No recipients
30th (2022) Music Award: Gen Ota Special Award: Taijiro Iimori
31st (2023) Music Award: No recipients Special Award: Masaki Tanaka
32nd (2024) Music Award: No winner Special Award: Nobuo Nishiyama
