2022.12.21 Noh Singer, Ryoko Aoki Concert Series “Trends in European Contemporary Music and Noh Voice”
Noh singer, Ryoko Aoki will organize “Trends in European Contemporary Music and Noh Voce” on 21 December 2022 (Wednesday) at Kioi Hall. We will introduce composers who will play a leading role in contemporary music in Europe, which has few opportunities to be introduced in Japan. This time, a world-renowned Japanese composer, Toshio Hosokawa, recommended composers as the music adviser. Under the direction of Yoshitaka Kihara, the concertmaster Tatsuki Narita will lead the special chamber orchestra.
In this concert, the pieces by Francesco Filidei (Italy), Federico Gardella (Italy), Diana Rotaru (Romania), Nina Šenk (Slovenia), Hristina Susak (Serbia) will be played. In addition, Toshio Hosokawa’s violin solo piece “Extasis” will be played by Tatsuki Narita.
There will be two world premieres: Diana Rotaru “Hannya” for Noh voice and chamber orchestra and Hristina Susak’s new piece for Noh voice and viola. The Japan premiere will be Nina Šenk “Baca,” which was premiered in 2018 by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Federico Gardella “Two Souls” was premiered in 2018 by Aoki with the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and in the chamber orchestra version with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra in 2019. This time we will play the chamber orchestra version.
Date : 21 December 2022 (Wednesday) 19:00-
Kioi Hall (6-5, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0094, Japan)
・Yotsuya St. JR line, the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line and Nanboku line: 6-minute walk.
・Kojiimachi St. The Tokyo Metro Yurakucho line: 8-minute walk.
・Akasakamitsuke St. The Tokyo Metro Ginza line or Marunouchi line: 8-minute walk.
・Nagatacho St. The Tokyo Metro Hanzomon line or Yurakucho line: 8-minute walk.
Program
Federico Gardella (1979-)
“Two Souls” for Noh voice and chamber orchestra (2017/2018)
Nina Šenk (1982-)
“Baca” for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet (2018・Japan Premiere)
Hristina Susak (1996-)
“New piece” for Noh voice and viola (World Premiere)
Francesco Filidei (1973-)
“I Funerali dell’ Anarchico Serantini” for 6 performers (2006)
Toshio Hosokawa (1955-)
“Extasis” for violin solo (2016/2020)
Diana Rotaru (1981-)
“Hannya” for Noh voice and chamber orchestra (World Premiere)
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice)
Tatsuki Narita (Violin)
Yuko Hara (Viola)
Yoshinao Kihara (Conductor)
Special Chamber Orchestra
Flute Saiko Ishida Oboe Kanami Araki Clarinet István Kohán Basson Eri Kuribayashi Horn Megumi Nemoto Aika Nose Trumpet Shutoku Sato Trombone Kosei Murata Tuba Shinya Hashimoto Harp Reine Takano Percussion Shingo Takase Violin Tatsuki Narita Saori Nakazawa Junya Makino Rio Arai Viola Yuko Hara Shu Yamamoto Violoncello Fumie Kato Kenichi Sako Double Bass Yuta Kato
Music Adviser : Toshio Hosokawa
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A ¥ 3,000
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Biography :
©︎Ryo Hanabusa
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice)
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 Wolfgang Rihm’s opera “The Conquest of Mexico” at the Teatro Real de Madrid as well as with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Ensemble Musikfabrik and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. She has participated in music festivals including the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Musikfest Berlin, the Bartok Festival and the Tongyeong International Music Festival. She has also performed at major concert halls including the Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Kölner Philharmonie. As part of her Contemporary Music x Noh project, Ryoko Aoki has commissioned a series of new works for Noh voice. In 2014, she released a “Noh x Contemporary Music” recording. During Covid-19 pandemic, she has broadcasted the online concert “HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19” as live-streaming distant session on her YouTube Channel. 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 and was awarded “The Creative Tradition Prize” in 2019 by the Japan Arts Foundation. She was appointed as a Minato City Tourism Ambassador since 2019.
https://ryokoaoki.net/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ryoooaoki
Instagram https://instagram.com/ryoooaoki
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/RyokoAoki
©︎Marco Borggreve
Tatsuki Narita (Violin)
In 2010, he won 2nd Prize in the Concours International Marguerite–Long–Jacques–Thibaud. In 2012, he won 2nd Prize in the Concours Reine Elisabeth en Belgique, and in 2013 he was awarded 2nd Prize in the Sendai International Music Competition. Tatsuki Narita has performed with many orchestras and conductors, including Petr Altrichter, Augustin Dumay, and Pietari Inkinen. Narita collaborates frequently with contemporary classical composers. He commissioned the work “CHASM for Violin and Piano” from the contemporary classical composer Kenji Sakai; and at the Suntory Foundation for Arts Summer Festival he performed Sakai’s violin concerto “On a G String,” which earned the Akutagawa Award for Composition. In November 2017, Narita gave the world premiere of Toshi Ichiyanagi’s composition “Double Concerto for Violin and Cello and Orchestra” (with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi on cello). Tatsuki Narita has studied with Masako Sawada, Eiko Ichikawa, Hamao Fujiwara, Jean–Jacques Kantorow, Svetlin Roussev, Florin Szigeti, and Ayako Tanaka. His CD releases include Tatsuki Narita Debut –Saint–Saens, Franck, Faure, Paganini (Pf: Théo Fouchenneret).In August 2018, Narita performed with Yeol–Eum Son, Svetlin Roussev and others at the 15th PyeongChang Music Festival & School held in Korea. He also appeared at Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival in Minsk. Tatsuki Narita plays the 1711 “Tartini” from the golden age of Stradivarius, on loan from the Munetsugu Collection.
https://tatsukinarita.com/
©Franziska Strauss
Yuko Hara (Viola)
Yuko Hara is a violist born in New York, educated in Japan, and is today an established chamber music player in Europe. She graduated from the Tokyo University of Arts, then continued her studies at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève with Nobuko Imai and at the Musikakademie Basel with Rainer Schmidt. She participated in two orchestra academies – the Philharmonia Zurich and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Ms Hara has won prizes in international competitions and foundations such as the 9th Lionel Tertis Viola Competition, the 5th Tokyo Music Competition, the International String Quartet Competition in Osaka, Matsuo and Aoyama Foundations. She is a member of the Paris based Quatuor Ardeo and the Bremen based franz ensemble. Their recordings have been highly recognized by critics as Supersonic on Pizzicato, Choc on Classica, the prestigious Opus Klassik award, among others. Her chamber music activities take her throughout the world to perform in festivals and concert halls. Since 2017, she is artistic director of the Festival Hirondelle in the Auvergne region of France.
https://www.yukoharaviola.com/
Yoshinao Kihara (Conductor)
Yoshinao Kihara, the principal conductor of The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo (TOUKON), began studying conducting under Seiji Ozawa at age 16 when he won a competitive scholarship to attend Rohm Music Foundation’s Music Seminar, for which the maestro served as an advisor. His seminar experience resulted in him becoming Ozawa’s assistant at his music academy while still attending the High School Attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. Kihara took to heart Ozawa’s teaching that conducting opera and symphony is the wheels for conductors– Herbert von Karajan’s view that Ozawa had adopted — and began performing in public concerts.
In 2006, upon graduating from high school, he left Japan for Europe to study orchestral conducting at the Berlin University of Arts in Germany. He then received his master’s degree in orchestral/choral conducting and korrepetition (coaching) from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and, earning the institute’s highest academic honor, the Wurdigungspreis award. Kihara has garnered many awards and honors, including a scholarship from the Honjo International Scholarship Foundation and an overseas fellowship that the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs’s appointment provides for “emerging artists.”
His 2013 win of the Opera Award of the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Foundation and his first ranking in the 4th Tokyo Cantat Competition for Young Choral Conductor cemented his reputation as an up-and-comer. In 2016, Vienna’s Musikverein (Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien) — a respected institution for which Herbert von Karajan long served as artistic director — selected Kihara for its Sumida Peace Prayer Concert 2016 in Japan. By the time he was appointed to his current position at The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo (TOUKON) in 2019, Kihara had already shared global stages with a number of reputable symphonies and choral and opera companies. He recently began expanding his career into other genres as well, welcoming such opportunities as serving as the conductor for the theme music by composer Akihiro Manabe for Fuji Television’s 60th anniversary drama, “Suna no Utsuwa,” and for the music played in “PSYCHO-PASS in Concert,” an animated movie produced by composer Yugo Kanno. Kihara also teaches at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and at Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation.
https://www.kiharaplatz.com/
Composers:
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Toshio Hosokawa Music Adviser
Born in Hiroshima in 1955, Toshio Hosokawa is Japan’s pre-eminent living composer who studied composition with Isang Yun, Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Germany. He creates his distinctive musical language from the fascinating relationship between western avant-garde art and traditional Japanese culture. Performances of his works span the east and west, and his orchestral works include Circulating Ocean (Vienna Philharmonic, Salzburg Festival, 2005), Woven Dreams (Cleveland Orchestra, Lucerne Festival, 2010), horn concerto Moment of Blossoming (Berlin Philharmonic, 2011), Klage (NHK Symphony Orchestra / Dutoit, 2013), Nach dem Sturm (for Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony’s 50thanniversary, 2015).
Many of his music theatre works have become part of the repertoire of large opera houses including Vision of Lear (Munich Biennale, 1998), Hanjo (with Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker at La Monnaie Brussels and Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2004), Matsukaze (with Sasha Waltz at La Monnaie and Staatsoper Berlin, 2011), Stilles Meer (Staatsoper Hamburg, 2016), and Erdbeben. Träume (Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2018).
Toshio Hosokawa has been a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin since 2001 and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin since 2006. In 2018 he received the Japan Foundation award and recently he was awarded the Goethe Medal for his services to cultural exchange between Japan and Germany. He is artistic director of the Takefu International Music Festival and artistic director of the Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition.
https://en.karstenwitt.com/artist/toshio-hosokawa#biography
©︎Florin Ghenade
Diana Rotaru
Romanian composer Diana Rotaru (born 24.09.1981, Bucharest) studied composition with Ştefan Niculescu and Dan Dediu at the National University of Music in Bucharest and with Frédéric Durieux at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (Erasmus). She participated in different courses such as Acanthes (Metz, 2008), Voix Nouvelles-Royaumont (2002 and 2006), or the International Bartok Seminary (Szombathely, 2003). Resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (the George Enescu grant from the Romanian Cultural Institute, 2007) and at Villa Sträuli, Winterthur (2011). Won numerous prizes, among which the Romanian Academy’s George Enescu Award (2010), the ISCM-IAMIC Young Composer Award (World Music Days, Vilnius, 2008), the Irino Prize (Japan, 2004) or the George Enescu Prize ex-aequo (Romania, 2003 and 2005). Artistic director of SonoMania ensemble, she is currently teaching at the National University of Music in Bucharest where she also coordinates the Romanian Music Information Center (CIMRO). President of ISCM Romania and artistic director of MERIDIAN International New Music Festival since 2019.
http://dianarotaru.net/
Hristina Susak
Hristina Susak was born in 1996 in Novi Sad, Serbia and has been composing since she was eight. At the age of 17 she started, and later graduated from, her studies in the field of composition and music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In October she is starting her postgraduate studies with Mark Andre. In 2021 she won the prize of the City of Vienna. Her compositions have been performed by numerous significant ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe, including Ensemble intercontemporain (at Philharmonie de Paris), Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Ascolta (as part of ECLAT Festival), Tonkünstler Orchester, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orquesta de València, Sepia Ensemble, and Barcelona Modern Ensemble. Besides composition, she is active as a performance artist and music theorist; she teaches harmony and counterpoint at Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig.
https://hristinasusak.com/
Federico Gardella
Federico Gardella was born in Milan in 1979. His music has featured in many important festivals and concert seasons in Tokyo, Milan, New York, Turin, Hiroshima, Bologna, Takefu, Venice, Madrid and Rome. In 2009 he was assigned the Takefu International Composition Award and in 2012 he was awarded the First Prize of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in Tokyo. In 2014 he was assigned the Special Prize “Una Vita nella Musica – Giovani” at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
His compositions have been performed by orchestras such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Another important aspect is his collaboration with chamber groups and ensembles specializing in the contemporary repertoire, such as the Arditti Quartet, the Quatuor Diotima, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Israel Contemporary Players and the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory with Alessandro Solbiati and then took advanced courses with Azio Corghi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His acquaintance with Brian Ferneyhough and Toshio Hosokawa has been of significant importance to his artistic development.
He teaches composition at the Milan Conservatory. His music is published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-SugarMusic S.p.A. in Milan.
http://www.federicogardella.it/index.php/en/federico-gardella-home-eng/
Francesco Filidei
Francesco Filidei was born in Pisa in 1973. He graduated from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, and from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. As an organist and composer, he has been invited to participate in major contemporary music festivals internationally.
In 2005 Filidei received a commission from Comité de Lecture Ircam. He has received awards including the 2006 Salzburg Music Förderpreisträger, the 2007 Prix Takefu, the 2009 Siemens Förderpreisträger, the 2011 International Rostrum of Composers (IRC), the 2015 Abbiati Award, the 2016 Les Grands Prix Internationaux du Disque from the Académie Charles Cros for his album Forse, the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation’s 2018 Commande awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
In 2005 Filidei received a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude; in 2006 and 2007 he was a member of the Casa de Velàzquez; in 2012 he was a Pensionnaire at Villa Medici; he received a grant from the DAAD in Berlin. Filidei has also been composer-in-residence for numerous ensembles and music festivals. In 2016 he was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Filidei joined the I Teatri Foundation of Reggio Emilia (Italy) as music consultant in 2018 and the Villa Medici in Rome as Artistic Director of the Controtempo festival of contemporary music.
Filidei’s first opera, Giordano Bruno, made its world premiere in 2015 in Porto (Portugal), and has been performed in theaters throughout Europe since then. His latest opera, L’inondation, with book by Joel Pommerat, was composed for the 2019 season at Opéra Comique in Paris. Filidei’s works are published by Rai Com and by Ricordi.
https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/Composers/F/Filidei-Francesco.aspx
Nina Šenk
Nina Šenk (1982) graduated in composition from the Ljubljana Academy of Music, then continued her postgraduate studies in composition in Dresden and obtained her master’s degree in the class of Prof. Matthias Pintscher at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, in 2008. She is a recipient of many awards, including the European award for the best composition at the Young Euro Classic festival for her Violin Concerto in 2004, the Academy of Music Prešeren Award and the first prize at the Weimar Spring Festival of Contemporary Music for her composition Movimento fluido in 2008. In the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons, Nina Šenk was a Composer in Residence of the Staatstheater Cottbus Orchestra in Germany. In 2010, the Rector of the University of Ljubljana awarded her a special recognition for artistic work in the area of musical composition and performance as well as architecture. In 2017, she was awarded the Prešeren Fund Prize for her creative work in the previous two years.
Nina Šenk’s works have been performed at numerous important international festivals (BBC Proms, New York Philharmonic Biennial, Salzburger Festspiele, Young Euro Classic Berlin, Kasseler Musiktage, Musica Viva Munich, etc.) and in many other concerts around the world with various orchestras and ensembles (New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatstheater Cottbus Orchestra, Young Euro Classic Festival Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble Modern, Scharoun Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble United Berlin and others).
https://www.ninasenk.net/