Seji Ozawa

Seiji Ozawa is a famous Japanese orchestra conductor. He was born in Hoten, China. 17 years later, he was hurt in a rugby accident and turned from piano playing to conducting. In 1960, He won the Koussevitsky Prize for outstanding student conductor. The next year, he made assistant conductor under Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Three years later, he served as conductor of the Toronto Symphony. A few years later, he was hired as director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra where he stayed until 2002.