Pacific Music Festival
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The Pacific Music Festival (PMF) (パシフィック・ミュージック・フェスティバル札幌 (Pashifikku Myūjikku Fesutibaru Sapporo)) is an international classical music festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan. It was founded in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein, along with the London Symphony Orchestra, and 123 young musicians from 18 countries. The original artistic directors were Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.[1]
2018 / 29th
7 Jul (Sat) - 1 August (Wed) for 26 days
2017 / 28th
8 July - 1 August
Artists
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Conductors
Artistic Directors
- Leonard Bernstein (1990)
- Michael Tilson Thomas (1990–2000)
- Christoph Eschenbach (1991, 93-98)
- Charles Dutoit (2000–02)
- Fabio Luisi (2010–12)[3][4][5]
- Valery Gergiev (2015–2019)[6]
Principal Conductors
- Marin Alsop (1990, 2019)
- Bernard Haitink (2003)
- Valery Gergiev (2004, 06)
- Nello Santi (2005)
- Riccardo Muti (2007)
- Fabio Luisi (2008)
- Jun Märkl (2013, 15, 17)[7][8]
- John Axelrod (2016, 18)[9][10]
- Lahav Shani (2022)
Guest Conductors
- Edo de Waart (2003)
- Fabio Luisi (2004)
- Jun Märkl (2005, 08)
- Yakov Kreizberg (2006)
- Philippe Jordan (2007)
- Andrey Boreyko (2007)
- Tadaaki Otaka (2008)
- Xian Zhang (2009)
- Krzysztof Urbański (2011)[4]
- Eivind Gullberg Jensen (2012)[5]
- Alexander Vedernikov (2013)[7]
- Andris Poga (2015)[6]
- Edwin Outwater (2018)[10]
