Joji Hattori

Joji Hattori, Artistic Director of the opera festival "Wiener Opernsommer Belvedere", leads a multifaced life both as a musician and restaurateur. Besides being a conductor and a violinist, he is also known as an entrepreneur of new, innovative projects. In 1969, he was born in Japan but was raised in Vienna. After almost two decades of living in London, he returned to Vienna in 2012 where he lives with his Bavarian doctor wife and his 6-year old son.

After winning the International Menuhin Violin Competition in 1989, he toured the world as a violin soloist for a decade before becoming a Conductor. Until 2023 he worked as Principal Guest Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, which he has conducted in Vienna and on tours to over 20 countries. He was also Principal Guest Conductor and Co-Artistic Director of the Balearic Symphony Orchestra from 2015 to 2019. In 2009, he also conducted three performances at the Vienna State Opera.

Joji Hattori is President of Musica Juventutis Austria, Vice President of the International Menuhin Violin Competition and in 2003 he was made Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. Having studied social anthropology at Oxford University (St. Antony College), he also continues to research the questions around the national identity of human individuals. Since 2015 he is the owner of Shiki, a Japanese Fine Dining restaurant in Vienna.

MY ORGANISATIONS
www.jojihattori.com - homepage of my musical activities

www.opernsommer.at - homepage of Wiener Opernsommer Belvedere, the new open-air opera summer festival in Vienna

www.shiki.at - homepage of Shiki Restaurant (since 2015)

www.shiki.at/academy/   - homepüage of Shiki Japanese Culinary Academy (to be launched in 2025)