Biography

Robert Rÿker serves as Music Director of the Tokyo Sinfonia, and Music Director of the National Philharmonic of India.

He has conducted in Baltimore, Bombay, Boston, Bucharest, Calcutta, Cleveland, Helsinki, Jena, Jacksonville, Kiev, Lima, Montreal, Nagoya, Pittsburgh, Prague, Saint Louis, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Vilnius, Windsor, Washington, and other cities on four continents.

He has been based for many years in Tokyo, one of the three great world capitals of music. (Learn more...)

Philosophy

We recently asked him to outline what makes the Tokyo Sinfonia such a “very different little orchestra”.

“Sound is the starting point of music. When I conceived of the Tokyo Sinfonia, I wanted to create an orchestra with the richest sound possible with economy of means. As the Americans say, I wanted to create an orchestra delivering the most bang for the buck. To achieve this, I relied on two well-established concepts of dynamics."

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