He is an orchestral conductor and musician born in Hiroshima, Japan who learned piano from the age of four and when he was fifteen he studied at that Toho Gakuen School of Music before going to Tanglewood Music Center in 1978 by invitation.
He met his mentor, Leonard Bernstein, there and travelled with him to perform concerts as one of his proteges as well as winning the Tanglewood Koussevitsky Prize in 1980.
In 1991 he became the Associate Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and then for several years from 1993 he was the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis. In1998 he became the Chief conductor of the NDR Radio-Philharmonie Hannover and later being named Conductor Laureate.
Other positions he has held are the Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, Principal Conductor of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor of Tristan and Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival and Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.
In musical education he has held the post of Professor at Hanover’s University of Music and Drama.
Minnesota Orchestra recordings
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (Midsummer’s Vigil/Midsommervaka) (Hugo Emil Alfven)
Reference Recordings RR-80CD
Conductor – Eiji Oue
Colas Breugnon Overture (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
Reference Recordings RR 92CD (CD: Bolero!)
Conductor – Eiji Oue
Marouf, savetier du Caire: Dances (Henri Rabaud)
(CD: Exotic Dances from the Opera Reference Recordings RR-71CD)
Conductor: Eiji Oue
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji_Oue
- http://japansclassic.com/artists/kajimoto_28/eiji_oue.html
- https://referencerecordings.com/artist/eiji-oue/
- https://imgartists.com/roster/eiji-oue/
- https://www.tpo.or.jp/en/about/conductor/detail-169.php
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eiji-oue-mn0001321532/biography
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eiji-oue-mn0001321532/credits
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/1184212-Eiji-Oue