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Rei Hotoda
is a conductor and pianist specializing in Asian and contemporary
symphonic, chamber and multimedia repertoire.
Newly appointed Assistant Conductor of
the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Hotoda has guest
conducted for several orchestras throughout North America
and Europe and has held positions as Assistant Conductor
of the 2005 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and
the 2005 Hot Springs Music Festival. She is the current
Principal Conductor with Chicago's new music group Noamnesia
and Ensemble N_JP.
She began her studies in piano at the age
of three in Tokyo, Japan. Ms. Hotoda holds a Doctorate
in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California,
graduate degree work in Orchestral Conducting from the
Peabody Institute and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance
from the Eastman School of Music. Chosen by Baltimore
Symphony Music Director Marin Alsop as her assistant at
the 2005 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Ms.
Hotoda has established herself as an emerging conductor
of contemporary music, as evidenced by her premieres of
works by notable composers including Yuji Takahashi, Toshio
Hosokawa, Kotoka Suzuki, Dai Fujikura, Salvatore Sciarrino,
Luc Ferrari, Michael Maierhof, and Gene Coleman.
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In June 2005 she served
as Assistant Conductor of the Hot Springs Music Festival.
She also performed the Brahms Piano Quintet with the Del
Sol Quartet at this festival. She conducted the world
premiere of Kyoto In_Ex, a project encompassing video,
live music and traditional Japanese Gagaku instruments
in Chicago, September 2005. As guest conductor, she has
worked with the Bridgeport Symphony in an East Coast premiere
of David Janello’s At the Sea of Clouds in the 2004–2005
season on the same program with music director Gustav
Meier, the Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany and with the
Muscatine Symphony Orchestra in Iowa.
She was discovered by the renowned teacher
and conductor Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute. Her
profound and innate talent as a conductor enabled her
to participate and conduct in many workshops, including
an apprentice spot with Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony
Orchestra (September 2003).
Her conducting teachers include Gustav
Meier, Marin Alsop, Markand Thakar and Cliff Colnot. Her
piano teachers included John Perry, Barry Snyder and Emilio
Del Rosario.
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