London Symphony Orchestra & Eckehard Stier
Biographie London Symphony Orchestra & Eckehard Stier
Alicia Vikander
is an Academy Award-winning Swedish actress and producer. She makes her stage debut following a celebrated screen career that has included collaborations with some of the industry’s most respected filmmakers and garnered critical recognition for a diverse range of projects, including The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, and Tomb Raider.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 for The Danish Girl and received further acclaim for her performances in Ex Machina, Tomb Raider, The Green Knight, and The Light Between Oceans. Most recently, she starred opposite Elizabeth Olsen in The Assessment, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned her a BIFA nomination. Upcoming film work includes Hope, directed by Na Hong-jin, The Wizard of the Kremlin, directed by Olivier Assayas, and The Last Day alongside Victoria Pedretti. She is also the founder of Vikarious Productions.
Eckehard Stier
The German conductor Eckehard Stier is known for his stylistic versatility, outstanding musicianship and convincing artistic vision.
He is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. Previously, he was Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand for seven years and, between 2003 and 2013, General Music Director of the City of Görlitz and Chief Conductor of the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie.
Eckehard Stier has performed with orchestras such as the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Melbourne Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted more than 80 orchestras on 4 continents over the past 30 years.
He has worked with soloists such as Alina Ibragimova, Cloë Hanslip, Nicolas Altstaedt, Kirill Gerstein, Cédric Tiberghien, Andreas Boyde, Nikolai Demidenko and Raphael Wallfisch. His most recent successes on the opera stage include performances of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. His music theatre repertoire includes over 90 works.
CD recordings and film music have been released with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, among others.
Nobuo Uematsu
He's been called the John Williams of the video game world, and the description is apt. Born in Kouchi City, Japan on March 21, 1959, Nobuo started playing the piano at the age of 12 and has never been formerly taught. By his own admission, he said he wanted to learn to play the piano because he wanted to be like Elton John. After finishing high school, Nobuo graduated from University of Kanagawa and his major was surprisingly not music! When Nobuo turned 22, he joined many amateur bands as a keyboard player, but he discover that he loved writing music more then playing, so he decided to pursue a career as a composer and sent out many demo tapes to many companies. One of them finally hired him to write some music for radio CM. In 1985, one of Nobuo's friends, who was working at a video game company called Squaresoft ask Nobuo if he wanted to write music for some of their video games and the rest is history. In his spare time, Nobuo enjoys listening to Irish music, watching Japanese pro wrestling, drinking/making beer and learning how to play the Fiddle. Currently Nobuo Uematsu resides in Japan with his wife Reiko and his dog Pao.
