REI HOTODA

Conductor Pianist Advocate

"Inexhaustible dynamo..."

“…emotionally charged, vastly experienced, and technically adroit…”

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Fresno Philharmonic

Digital MasterWorks I

Intersections of Past and Present

Music of Hailstork, Bolcom and Haydn

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2020/21 CONCERTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

May 14-16, 2021

Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

Louis DeMartino, clarinet

Rei Hotoda, conductor

Works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Foumai

May 21-23, 2021

Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

Rei Hotoda, conductor

Works by Li, Foumai, and Tchaikovsky

March 20, 2021 at 5:30pm PST

Fresno Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall

Rei Hotoda, Music Director

Vive la France

Works by Dukas, Boulanger, Montgomery, and Ibert

April 9, 2021 at 8pm

Toledo Symphony Orchestra

Works by Atterberg, Warlock, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Diamond

April 10, 2021 at 8pm

Toledo Symphony Orchestra

Works by Atterberg, Warlock, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Diamond

April 17, 2021 at 5:30pm

Fresno Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall

Rei Hotoda, Music director

Bach to the Future

Works by Gabrieli, Villa Lobos, Bach, and a World Premiere by Kevin Day

February 20, 2021

Fresno Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall

American Visions

Works by Tower, Barnes, Price and Copland

January 16, 2021

Fresno Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall

Intersections of the Past and Present

Works by Hailstork, Bolcom, and Haydn

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Rei speaks to many of today's leading composers in her ever-popular series Stay Tuned as part of the Fresno Philharmonic's digital offerings. Hear Rei get up close and personal with these artists as they discuss their life's work and creative process. Her guests include: Adolphus Hailstork, Jasmine Barnes, William Bolcom and Joan Tower.

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Rei Hotoda, Music Director of the Fresno Philharmonic, interviews FPO musicians to get a behind the scenes look at the orchestra. Her interviews include a wide swath of musicians from the concertmaster to the principal players to whole sections.

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Hear Rei speak about Britten's monumentally powerful War Requiem, from a historical, musical and personal perspective. Rei will be conducting the Fresno Philharmonic on November 11, 2018, exactly 100 years to the day that the Armistice to end World War I was signed.

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As artists we must not only do what we can to build our audiences, but strive to reach people beyond the score through education, connecting with our communities and recognizing our supporters to ensure that through these important partnerships, we grow as artists and strive to make the greatest impact possible on our world around us.” – Rei Hotoda

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Hailed by the Spokesman-Review as being an “inexhaustible dynamo,” Rei Hotoda, now in her third season as Music Director of the Fresno Philharmonic, has appeared as a guest conductor with many of today’s leading ensembles, including the Symphony Orchestras of Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Toronto, Utah, Hawaii, Winnipeg, and Spokane as well as the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, among others. Her interpretations of such epic centerpieces of the classical canon such as Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 and Britten’s War Requiem, make her one of the most sought-after conductors of today. She is a tireless advocate for the music of our time, and most recently conducted the world premiere of Dinuk Wijeratne’s Between Figure and Ground to much acclaim.

Rei is equally at home leading the orchestra from the piano as well as from the podium. As an accomplished pianist, she has appeared as soloist conducting from the piano with the Dallas, Edmonton, Utah, and Winnipeg

Symphony Orchestras, performing works by Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. One of her many highlights of 2019/20 season, was conducting the Fresno Philharmonic, where she currently serves as Music Director, from the piano for the first time in Beethoven’s monumental Triple Concerto as part of the orchestra’s Beethoven@250 celebrations.

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