2021.1.19 Press Release
The Noh singer, Ryoko Aoki “HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19”
Peter Eötvös “Secret Kiss” Live-streaming distant session YouTube Live with Ensemble Musikfabrik
The Noh singer, Ryoko Aoki will broadcast the online concert “HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19” vol.5 from 11:00 (CET) on 19th February 2021 especially for people who live in Germany. Ryoko Aoki will sing Peter Eötvös “Secret Kiss” as live-streaming distant session with Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne. In 2019, Ryoko Aoki and Ensemble Musikfabrik played Peter Eötvös “Secret Kiss” at Berlin Philharmonie under the composer’s baton. Peter Eötvös composed “Secret Kiss” based on “Silk” by Alessandro Baricco. In the story, in the 19th century, a French silk merchant travels to Japan to buy Japanese silkworms because they have diseases in France. The venue of streaming in Japan is Yokohama Sankeien Garden founded by Sankei Hara. He was the silk trader, and ran Tomioka silk mill, which could be model of “Silk” by Alessandro Baricco.
2019/9/8 Peter Eötvös “Secret Kiss” Berliner Philharmonie
Ryoko Aoki, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Peter Eötvös
Photo : Adam Janisch
You can watch the archive on Ryoko Aoki YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RyokoAoki
HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19 vol.5, For Germany
https://youtu.be/X2yIQnM_Z2w
Date: 11:00-11:20 (CET) 19 February 2021
Venue: Yokohama Sankeien Garden, Buddhist Sanctum of the Former Tokeiji Temple [Important National Cultural Property] / Studio Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne
Peter Eötvös “Secret Kiss”
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice, Tokyo) Conductor : Mariano Chiacchiarini, Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne) Peter Eötvös (Composition, Budapest)
Technical direction / live streaming: LUFTZUG
Subsidized by Magnet Culture Project Kanagawa
In cooperation with Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Sankeien Garden and AMATI
This project is self funded and it would be very helpful to continue the project if you support via Paypal (https://www.paypal.me/nohvoicemusic) or
Peatix (https://honohforgermany.peatix.com/)
〈Biography〉
Photo : Hiroaki Seo
Ryoko Aoki, Noh singer
Ryoko Aoki is the pioneer of and inspiration for a new artistic form combining utai – traditional Noh recitation – with contemporary music. More than 50 works have been written for her by world-renowned composers including Peter Eötvös and Toshio Hosokawa. Singing with orchestras and performing in operas, she has worked to expand the audience for Noh recitation. She has performed in an opera at the Teatro Real de Madrid as well as with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ensemble InterContemporain and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. She has participated in music festivals including the Bartok Festival, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, and the Tongyeong International Music Festival. She has also performed at major concert halls including the Concertgebouw, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Kölner Philharmonie. Ryoko earned her BA and MA from the Department of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts (majoring in the Kanze School of Noh theatre), before gaining a Ph.D. from SOAS, University of London. She was appointed a “Japan Cultural Envoy” in 2015 by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. She was awarded “The Creative Tradition Prize” (Japan Arts Foundation) in 2019.
Ryoko Aoki official website https://ryokoaoki.net/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ryoooaoki
Instagram https://instagram.com/ryoooaoki
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/RyokoAoki
Photo : Katharina Dubno, Lightdesign : Joscha Brück
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Ever since its formation, Ensemble Musikfabrik has had the reputation of being one of the leading ensembles for contemporary music. Following the literal meaning of its name, Ensemble Musikfabrik is particularly dedicated to artistic innovation. New, unknown, and often personally commissioned works in unusual media are typical of their productions. The results of their extensive work, usually taking place in close collaboration with the composers, are presented by the Cologne-based international soloist ensemble in up to 80 concerts a year in both Germany and abroad, at Festivals, in their own series “Musikfabrik in WDR” and in regular radio recordings and CD productions.
Ensemble Musikfabrik is supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
official website https://www.musikfabrik.eu/en
Photo : Marco Borggreve
Peter Eötvös, composer
Peter Eötvös is a highly influential figure of the Hungarian and international contemporary music scene. He learned composition in the School of Exceptional Young Talents at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary and than in Cologne, Germany, where he studied composition under the tutelage of B. A. Zimmermann and had the opportunity to work with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Musical director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for over a decade, his twelve operas, instrumental solo concertos, larger- and smaller scale symphonic compositions and chamber music pieces are regularly staged in the world’s greatest concert halls, festivals and opera houses.
In recent years, he has been commissioned to write orchestral pieces for the Concertgebouw, the Elbphilharmonie, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Seoul and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and many others. His social and political sensitivity has inspired him to pen several of his pieces. His operas were commissioned by the most prestigious houses, such as the Opera de Lyon, Chatelet Paris, Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Frankfurt, New York Philharmony Orchestra. Currently, he is working on two operas commissioned by the Berlin State Opera and the Hungarian State Opera House.
official website https://eotvospeter.com
〈Past YouTube Live Vol.1-4〉
30 May 2020, HO NOH – Pray Pray for an end to the Covid-19 vol.1, For Italy
Federico Gardella “Voice of Wind”
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice) Kazushi Saito (Flute : Remote performance)
https://youtu.be/Fgj8S7Fz4pc
4 July 2020, HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19, For France
Noriko Baba “Nopera AOI”
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice, Tokyo) Kazushi Saito (Flute, Tokyo) Asuka Hatanaka (Percussion, Kyoto)
https://youtu.be/5vt-MpzN2r8
11 July 2020, HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19, For Spain
Bruno Dozza “Euridice”
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice, Tokyo) Aldo Mata (Cello, Madrid)
https://youtu.be/BZOJNLq9XR0
7 December 2020, HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19 vol.4, For Netherlands
The Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Japan, Tokyo / Recital Hall, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Noriko Baba “hagoromo suite”
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice, Tokyo)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra members, Amsterdam
Junko Naito (violin) Sylvia Huang (violin) Saeko Oguma (viola) Fred Edelen (violoncello)
Noriko Baba (Composition, Rome)
https://youtu.be/EDqKapGVgSQ