“Music and Artistic Director of the Savannah Philharmonic and Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Keitaro Harada has received his fifth Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award,” writes Nicole Youngblut in last Wednesday’s (5/26) ConnectSavannah (GA). “Harada is … one of 15 young conductors selected as the recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award…. Originally from Tokyo, Japan, Harada started as a saxophonist. At Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, a high school for arts, he was first introduced to conducting. After graduation, he studied in the U.S. and Russia to gain knowledge and the experience to conduct a professional orchestra…. [In] college, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Macon Symphony Orchestra in Macon, Georgia…. Harada’s appointment as Music and Artistic Director at the Savannah Philharmonic was a pivotal starting point in his career…. Despite the decline in live orchestra performances over the past year due to challenges of the pandemic, they kept persevering, performing all while ensuring proper safety precautions…. A sold-out concert hosted at the Trustees’ Garden … featured a 360-degree seating arrangement where patrons could sit anywhere to feel comfortably spaced … The organization continues to experiment with different ways to experience a concert.”
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