古澤直久
Naoshisa Furusawa
古澤直久於2003年1月加入馬來西亞愛樂樂團為低音大提琴手。1973年出生於東京,四歲開始學習小提琴,後來加入初中管弦樂團為低音大提琴手。十二歲第一次指揮學校的管弦樂隊。及後他於東京桐朋學園大學音樂學院跟隨Nobuo Shiga教授學習低音提琴和 Kazue Kamiya教授學習鋼琴。古澤直久多年來以低音大提琴手身份於NHK交響樂團,讀賣日本交響樂團,東京都交響樂團和其他幾個樂團服務,在多位指揮家的指導下演出,包括小澤征爾,秋山和慶,薩瓦利希,史坦因,馬捷爾,布隆斯泰特,布萊茲和葛濟夫。
1998年,古澤直久獲得日本文化事務局頒發的獎學金,在薩爾茨堡莫扎特音樂大學學習低音大提琴。他曾先後五次以指揮身份與東京的MAX愛樂樂團合作演奏貝多芬的第九交響曲。為了紀念第二次世界大戰結束70週年,他還指揮MAX愛樂樂團演奏了馬勒的第二交響曲。
古澤直久曾指揮多個青年樂團,包括馬來西亞愛樂樂團的Encounter Training Ensemble,馬來西亞愛樂樂團的教育和外展計劃中的Miri Tutti Project in East Malaysia。
Naohisa Furusawa has been a member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) double bass section since January 2003. Born in Tokyo in 1973, he started to play the violin when he was four years old and later joined his junior high school orchestra as a double bass player at age 12. His first conducting experiences were with this school orchestra. Later, he studied double bass with Prof. Nobuo Shiga and piano and conducting with Prof. Kazue Kamiya at Tokyo’s Toho Gakuen School of Music. Furusawa has performed as a double bass player with the NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nihon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and several other orchestras, under the direction of many conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Lorin Maazel, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez and Valery Gergiev.
In 1998, Furusawa was awarded a scholarship from the Cultural Affairs Agency of Japan to study double bass at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He has conducted Beethoven’s 9th Symphony five times with Tokyo’s MAX Philharmonic Orchestra. He also conducted Mahler’s Second Symphony with the MAX Philharmonic to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. He has conducted many youth ensembles, including MPO’s Encounter Training Ensemble, and the Miri Tutti Project in East Malaysia as part of the MPO’s Education and Outreach programme.