Classic music

Dai Kimura and Dai Sakakibara

Kimura Dai (Kimura Daichi, February 15, 1982) is a Japanese classical guitarist from Miho Village, Ibaraki Prefecture (Tsuchiura City). Graduated from Tsuchiura Nihon University High School.

From 5 years old he studied under guitarist Father Yoshihiro.

1988 when in elementary school he won nationwide student guitar competition. His name was known all over the country. In junior high school days, from 1995 to 1997 he won the 20th student guitar competition, middle school student 's department. At the same time, he won the GLC award given to the winner in all divisions. He got the 11th Junior Guitar Competition Best Award, first place in the 13th Spanish guitar competition.

In 1996, at the Tokyo International Guitar Competition, which is said to be the world's highest level at the guitar competition, he was only 14 years old and won as the youngest in history.

In 1999, at the age of 17, he made CD debut at "The Cadenza 17", and sold 50,000 pieces which can be said as a hit as a classic CD. This CD features several songs by American guitarist Andrew York.
Studied abroad at the Royal Conservatory of Music from April 2002 to March 2004. As a first step after returning home, he played two consecutive nightly contests with the NHK Symphony Orchestra.

He also likes heavy metal as his brother's influence, and in 2000 he interviewed Yngwie Malmsteen with a guitar magazine "YOUNG GUITAR". He wrote commentary on Yngwie's album "War To End All Wars" (Japanese version). in March 2013 he released an album "HERO" which included cover songs such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Randy Rose, and Kyoji Yamamoto of BOWWOW We participate in the guitar instrument project "6 strings Vol.2" produced by "Takeda no Komori Uta".

Dai Sakakibara was born in 1967. Started playing the piano at the age of four.

Formed the band G-CLEF while attending Tokyo University of the Arts; opened up a field of instrumental fusion music based on his outstanding musical abilities and performance skills and produced a broad array of achievements, including seven tours across the country and a first-ever appearance by an instrumental band on Kohaku Utagassen, an annual year-end music show on NHK TV.

Sakakibara’s powerful style and superb sensitivities go beyond genre and continue to be demonstrated after the dissolution of his band, as seen in his stage support and arrangements for artists such as violinist Taro Hakase, the Gospellers, Mika Nakashima, Seiko Matsuda, and Kohei Otomo.

Sakakibara began full-fledged solo activities in 2001 and has released seven original albums to date. He has also worked on numerous soundtracks for movies and television dramas, including the score for NHK’s morning drama series “Fight” in 2005, the NTV drama “Bull Doctor” in 2011, and the theme music for “ANN News” on the TV Asahi network of broadcast affiliates.

In 2014 he released “Dear Classix”, an album of classical cover performances, and “Dear Love Songs”, an album of pop cover songs from King Records in July 2015.

Shinya Kiyozuka and Rando Takai Piano Duo Concert.

Toshiko Akiyoshi & Ru Tabakin

Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist.
She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of a documentary film titled Jazz Is My Native Language. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.

Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria to Japanese emigrants. She was the youngest of four sisters. In 1945, after World War II, Akiyoshi's family lost their home and returned to Japan, settling in Beppu. A local record collector introduced Akiyoshi to jazz by playing a record of Teddy Wilson playing "Sweet Lorraine." Akiyoshi immediately loved the sound, and began to study jazz. In 1952, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered Akiyoshi playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed, and convinced record producer Norman Granz to record Akiyoshi. In 1953, under Granz's direction, Akiyoshi recorded her first album with Peterson's rhythm section: Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on double bass, and J. C. Heard on drums. The album was released as Toshiko's Piano in the U.S. and as Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan.

Akiyoshi studied jazz in Boston at the Berklee School of Music. In 1955, Akiyoshi wrote a letter to Lawrence Berk asking him to give her a chance to study at his school. After a year of wrangling with the State Department and Japanese officials, Berk secured permission for Akiyoshi to enroll. He offered her a full scholarship, and he mailed her a plane ticket to Boston. In January 1956, Akiyoshi enrolled to become the first Japanese student at Berklee. Soon after, she appeared as a contestant on the 18 March 1956 broadcast of the CBS television panel show What's My Line?. In 1998, Akiyoshi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.

Lewis Barry Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is a jazz flutist and tenor saxophonist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s.
Critic Scott Yannow describes Tabackin as "one of the few jazz musicians who has been able to develop completely different musical personalities on two instruments", with his forceful hard bop style on sax contrasting with his delicate flute playing.

Tabackin first took up the flute at the age of 12, followed by the tenor saxophone at age 15. He has citied Al Cohn and Coleman Hawkins as influences on his sax playing, while his flute role models include classical players such as William Kincaid, Julius Baker, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Tabackin studied flute at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and also studied music with composer Vincent Persichetti. In 1962 he graduated from the Conservatory and, after a stint with the U.S. Army, worked with Tal Farlow. He also worked with Chuck Israels in New York City, and a combo that included Elvin Jones, Donald Byrd, and Roland Hanna. Later he would have a chair in The Dick Cavett Show's band and The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen. Tabackin moved from New York to California when The Tonight Show relocated in 1972. During this time he played with Shelly Manne and Billy Higgins, among others.

Tabackin met Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1967 while he was playing in Clark Terry's band and she was invited to sit in for Don Friedman. They formed a quartet in the late 1960s, married in 1969, and in 1973 co-founded the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band in Los Angeles, which later became the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin, playing bebop in Duke Ellington-influenced arrangements and compositions by Akiyoshi. Tabackin was principal soloist for the big band/orchestra from 1973 through 2003.

Lew Tabackin was interviewed by Linus Wyrsch on "The Jazz Hole" for breakthruradio.com in July 2011 - Lew Tabackin Interview by breakthruradio.com

Memories of Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn (/ˈhɛpbɜːrn/; born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.

Born in Ixelles, a municipality near Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell, before moving to London in 1948, continuing her ballet training with Marie Rambert, and then performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions.

Following minor appearances in several films, Hepburn starred in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, after being spotted by French novelist Colette, on whose work the play was based. She shot to stardom for playing the lead role in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she was the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That same year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), and Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only 12 people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.

Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63.

"Music picture book" Zurasian brass & string bunny

A classical concert where children and adults can enjoy together. "Music picture book" was inspired by the idea that classic music becomes a picture book. You can enjoy a variety of music worlds including William Tell Overture and Neighbor Totoro Medley.

Sofia · Kypruskaya harp · recital

Nikkei Muse Salon is a multi-functional venue with a seating capacity of 610 that is located on the 3rd floor of the Nikkei Bldg. in Otemachi. Based on the concept of "a forest of knowledge where people encounter news," the hall is notable for an integration of design and sound/lighting effects, including wall lighting resembling sunshine filtering through foliage. Seating is in the form of folding desks with light.

The hall can accommodate everything from lectures and symposiums to concerts such as chamber music with reverberating boards installed. An approx. 540 m2 vestibule can be utilized for parties, social gatherings, and exhibits, and drinks and light meals can also be enjoyed.
There is also a 400-person capacity Nikkei Conference Room, as well as slightly smaller Nikkei Otemachi Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, and 3 in all. Each room has movable partitions enabling changes to layout and division according to utilization in order to accommodate usage, usage pattern, and attendance.

Guitarist Masanobu Nishigaki

Kolja Blacher

Sekisui Heim presents Ashkenazi × Nobuyuki Tsujii

Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO) is an Icelandic orchestra based in Reykjavík. The ISO is an autonomous public institution under the auspices of the Icelandic Ministry of Education. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra made its home in Háskólabíó (University Cinema) from 1961–2011, but moved into the new 1800-seat Harpa Concert Hall in spring 2011. The orchestra gives approximately sixty concerts each season.

Interview Concert

Classical paintings

Japan Century Symphony Orchestra (Nihon Century Symphony Orchestra) is a professional orchestra, a public utility​ corporation based in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture (in Hattori Fudo Park ). It is also a regular member of the Japan Orchestra Federation . In 1989, it was established as Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra in the form of developing as a professional brass band of Osaka's administration(at that time, the only brass band managed by the prefecture). After that, it has operated the current name since April, 2011.

Japan Century Orchestra was founded in 1989 under the management of Osaka Prefecture Government as the name of Century Orchestra Osaka. In April 2014, Norichika II MORI became Chef conductor.

Their subscription concert series are held at The Symphony Hall 10 times a year.

Additionally, they participate the joint operation of new concert hall in Toyonaka called Toyonaka Performing Arts Center. From 2017 they will be held famous classical series 4 times a year at the hall.

Besides concert activities as above, they have a friendship agreement with Toyonaka city since 2012 about music activities. The city hold a music festival with them every autumn. They actively promote music appreciation classes aimed at refining the sensibilities of the younger generation, who will be tomorrow's leaders.

They are dedicated to fulfilling their mission to become an orchestra that is loved and respected by not only classical music lovers but also all the people in every walk of life.

Steude Quartet & Michio Fujiwara

Dozan Fujiwara's work, which was produced under the original concept of "picking up and recording classical songs of ancient and modern times in Japan and Europe". They will moderately associate music of east and west in one album based on a new harmony between traditional Japanese music instrument (shakuhachi) and string quartet, it is possible to find another method to incorporate between rendition style and mental common trail following to the best interesting way.

Kansai Phil's 4th parent-child regular concert

The opera series of the Kansai Phil and The Symphony Hall delivers to their families The 4th! "The Kansai Philosophy Parents' Regular Concert", "Familiar with the family," real music "where sound sounds space I want you ".
This is the fourth time this year the concert of Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra will be held , it is a powerful program that audiences can enjoy with their family such as «celebration overture» beginning with a spectacular trumpet fanfare, exoticism and extravagant plenty of «once you dance»! Also familiar music, such as String Serenade »and« Magical Dignity », is an extraordinary taste when listening in a raw orchestra. The song "I heard somewhere" may become a special "favorite song".

Ryo Keigo (violin) & Hiroyuki Kato (piano) Duo Recital

A duo recital with a violinist and a pianist who has received tremendous trust from members of the Vienna Philharmonic as a master of chamber music.
Two people who met each other 9 years ago and are working together, they played the Beethoven Violin · Sonatas in Tokyo · Spring · Music Festival for 3 years.
On April 14, the concert at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan was performing with full of enthusiasm from talent artists.

Aoi Kanazawa tenor recital

Art 21

Tube percussion series 2018 Produced by Stephan Doll

Andrey Ionitsa Cello Recital

Invitation to chamber music Vol.5

The Grand Trio Recital 2018

The Grand Trio Recital is a amazing orchestra performed by three talent artists: Ryoichi Fujimori (cello)
Takumi Komoriya (violin), Misato Yokoyama (piano). They will combinate together and are expected to have a wonderful performance.