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Born in Hyogo Prefecture and currently living in Kobe, Toshizo Ido graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 1968. From 1968-1995 he served in the Ministry of Home Affairs working for the prefectural governments of Tottori, Saga, Miyagi and Shizuoka; the Land Bureau of the National Land Agency; and the Local Tax Bureau of the Ministry of Home Affairs. |
| He served as Director of the Ministry of Transportation’s Civil Aviation Bureau and also as Director of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Administration and Finance Bureaus. He was then Secretariat for the Ministry of Home Affairs, and in 1995 was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Secretariat. In 1996 Mr. Ido became Deputy Governor of Hyogo Prefecture. He was elected the 48th Governor of Hyogo Prefecture in 2001, and reelected to the same office in 2005. Previously serving as Chairman of the Hyogo Arts and Culture Association, Mr. Ido assumed the role of President of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in April 2005. |
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Critics have unanimously hailed Yutaka Sado as one of the most enthralling and charismatic conductors of the new generation. Born in Kyoto, Japan and educated at Kyoto City University of the Arts, studying flute, Sado soon captured the attention of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood Music Festival in 1987. |
| In 1988, Sado served as assistant to Bernstein and toured Europe with the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra. Sado captured world attention by receiving the first prize at the 39th International Conducting Competition in Besançon in 1989, and the first prize at the Leonard Bernstein International Competition in Jerusalem in 1995. Sado assisted Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1990 to inaugurate the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, where he has served as resident conductor and later as guest conductor. Sado has guest conducted major orchestras throughout Europe. |
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