Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra Newsletter -
February 23, 2009
Hubert Soudant, Music Director |
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Wins Music Pen Club Japan Award |
Hubert Soudant, Music Director and The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
won Best Concert Performance by Japanese Artist at the 21st Music
Pen Club Japan Awards announced on February 1st. The award was given
for the Schubert cycle directed by TSO Music Director, Hubert Soudant,
during the 2008-09 season
The finale of the TSO Schubert cycle, to be performed at Suntory
Hall on March 21, 2009, includes Schubert's Unfinished Symphony"
and the complete incidental music to "Rosamunde, F?rstin von
Cypern."
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2009-10 season: Schumann & Brahms |
The TSO announced its 2009-10 season theme; Schumann & Brahms.
Schumann's symphonies and Brahms' concertos will be performed.
TSO Music Director Hubert Soudant will conduct all Schumann's symphonies
(Mahler edition), which will be recorded and released on the fineN&F
label in the fall of 2009.
TSO celebrates its new season with "2009 Season Opening Night;"
April 6, 2009, Suntory Hall. The orchestra will perform Brahms'
German Requiem conducted by Music Director Hubert Soudant.
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Annual Concert Opera Project: The Excursions of Mr. Broucek by Janacek |
For its annual concert opera project in the 2009-10
season the TSO will give a semi-stage performance of Janacek's only
comic opera, The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, at Suntory Hall on December
6th, 2009, as part of the Subscription Series. The performance will
be the Japanese premiere of this work. Norichika Iimori, TSO's resident
conductor, will lead the opera in collaboration with a Czech director,
Martin Otava, and with Czech singers in major roles.
The performance of The Excursions of Mr. Broucek will be the fifth
work in the TSO Janacek Opera Series, which began in 1997.
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2009-10 Guest Conductors and Soloists |
Guest Conductors (order of appearance):
Nicola Luisotti, Stefan Anton Reck, Rumon Gamba, Krzysztof Urbanski,
and Sascha Goetzel.
Guest Soloists:
Violinists: Regis Pasquier, Ingolf Turban, Jennifer Gilbert, and
Valeriy Sokolov
Cellists: Wen-Sinn Yang and Daniel Mueller-Schott.
Pianists: Hung-Kuan Chen, Gerhard Oppitz, Michie Koyama, Peter Jablonski,
Kathryn Stott, Alexander Gavrylyuk, and Hisako Kawamura.
Horn player: Stefan Dohr (Principal Horn for the Berlin Philharmonic).
Bandoneon: Ryota Komatsu.
Also, with the support of the Embassy of Finland, the TSO will
perform a special concert in celebration of 90 Years of Diplomatic
Relations Between Finland and Japan as part of the Tokyo Opera City
Concert Series on September 5, 2009. The all Sibelius program will
include the incidental music to "The Tempest," one of
his most significant works, performed with acclaimed vocalists from
Finland: Soprano Helena Juntunen, Mezzo-soprano Tiina-Maija Koskela,
Tenor Juha Hostikka, and Baritone Petteri Salomaa.
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Opera Appearances in 2009 season |
The TSO performs many opera and ballet works with regular
appearances at the New National Theater from January to April each
year in addition to appearances at other venues.
< Opera and Ballet works performed by the TSO in the 2009
season >
Puccini's Madama Butterfly, conducted by Carlo Montanaro, Johann
Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, Raymonda (Ballet), Shostakovich's Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk, O.Shimizu's Shuzenji Monogatari (A story of
Shuzenji), Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (Ballet),
R.Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Shinichiro Ikebe's Rokumeikan,
all at the New National Theater.
Mozart's Don Giovanni conducted by Nicola Luisotti at Suntory Hall
Opera.
Monteverdi/ Henze's Il Ritorno D'ulisse in Patria at Nikika Opera
Foundation
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