2023.11.30 Noh singer, Ryoko Aoki Concert Series “Contemporary Music x Noh” 10th Anniversary Concert
Noh singer, Ryoko Aoki Concert Series “Contemporary Music x Noh” 10th Anniversary Concert
30 November 2023 at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall
World and Japanese premieres of pieces by Annelies Van Parys, Naoki Sakata and Claude Ledoux
We will organize the Noh singer, Ryoko Aoki Concert Series “Contemporary Music x Noh” 10th anniversary concert on 30 November 2023 (Thursday) at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall. The “Contemporary Music x Noh” concert series presents new contemporary music pieces composed for Noh chanting, and since its launch in 2010, we have commissioned 44 composers from 20 countries. In addition to the world premiere, this concert will be held in the form of a concert with selections from the repertoire of pieces for Noh voice to date, to celebrate the 10th anniversary.
We will have the world premieres of new compositions commissioned from two of today’s most active female composers, Belgium’s Annelies Van Parys and Naoki Sakata, a Japanese composer living in Paris who has been remarkably active in recent years. Also, we will have the Japanese premiere of “FujiDaiko Écho” for Noh voice and string quartet by leading Belgian composer Claude Ledoux, which Aoki premiered at the Ars Musica Festival in Belgium in 2021. Aoki will perform the piece with violin “Far Water” by Spanish composer José María Sánchez-Verdú, with whom Aoki has a long history of collaboration, including the composition of an orchestral piece that she premiered with the Orquesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Orchestra) in 2022.
Aoki will play with young string players representing Japan, such as violinists, Tatsuki Narita and Ryosuke Suho, a violist, Kei Tojo on viola and a cellist, Ayano Uemura. It will present new music born from the fusion of “Noh chanting” and contemporary music.
Date : 30 November 2023 (Thursday) 19:00-
Venue : Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall
5-45 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8716
Program：
Annelies Van Parys (1975-)
“Semi no obebe” for Noh voice and String Trio (World Premiere)
José María Sánchez-Verdú (1968-)
“Far Water” for Noh voice and Violin (2018)
Toshio Hosokawa (1955-)
“Small Chant” for Violoncello (2012)
Claude Ledoux (1960-)
“FujiDaiko Écho” for Noh voice and String Quartet (2021・Japan Premiere)
Naoki Sakata (1975-)
“New piece” for Noh voice and String Quartet (World Premiere)
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice)
Tatsuki Narita (Violin)
Ryosuke Suho (Violin)
Kei Tojo (Viola)
Ayano Kamimura（Violoncello）
Presented by ensemble-no
Produced by Ryoko Aoki
Managed by AMATI Inc.
Subsidized by Japan Arts Council, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Nomura Foundation
Patronage / Nominal Support by Embassy of Belgium in Tokyo, Embassy of Spain in Tokyo
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Biography :
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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/
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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/
Ryosuke Suho (Violin)
In 2016, he won the Henrik Wieniawski International Violin Competition and the Special Jury Prize. In addition, he has won and won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Japan Music Competition, the Tokyo Music Competition, the David Oistrakh International Violin Competition, and the Kloster Schoenthal International Violin Competition. Received the 25th Idemitsu Music Award in 2015 and the 25th Aoyama Music Newcomer Award in 2016. Starting with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra at the age of 12, he has performed with the Orchester de Paris, the Orchester National de France, the Orchester Philharmonie de Radio France, the Orchester National de Paris, the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg National Academy Orchestra, and Stutt. He has performed with numerous orchestras in Japan and abroad, including the Togart Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 15, he gave his first recital and performed with pianists such as Kazune Shimizu, Akira Eguchi, and Haruko Ueda. In May 2021, he released his first concerto album “Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos” from Octavia Records. He has studied under Chisako Okamoto, Yuko Iwatani, Machie Oguri, Yasuko Otani, Koichiro Harada, Mayuko Kamio, and Maxim Vengerov, and completed the Artist Diploma Course as a special scholarship student at Tokyo College of Music. He is currently studying at the Menuhin International Academy of Music as a scholarship student of the Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation. The instrument used is a Nicolo Amati made in 1678, on loan from the NPO Yellow Angel.
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Kei Tojo (Viola)
Kei Tojo, viola, finished a master’s degree at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Jean Sulem and continuedher studies with Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin. She also studied with Jeffrey Irvine at the Cleveland Institute of Music in the United States. She arrived in Paris in 2010 and successively won international competitions such as the Lionel Tertis in England (2nd prize and the prize for the contemporary piece), the William Primrose in the United States (honorable mention and Best Bach performance prize), the Hradec Beethoven in the Czech Republic (2nd prize). She has also won the 2nd prize, the J.S.Bach Award, the Special Prize for a Japanese Work, and the Public Prize at the 3rd Tokyo International Viola Competition in Japan. Passionate about orchestra, she was selected by the Academy of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2012/13 season, the Orchestre de Paris for the 2014/15, and Karajan-Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic 2017/19.
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Ayano Kamimura（Violoncello）
Ayano Kamimura is 1st prize winner of a lot of Music Competition. She has participated in masterclasses and festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Kronberg Academy, Piatigorsky Cello Festival and Creative Dialoge under Kaija Saariaho. She has been invited by the Miyazaki International music festival and Kirishima International music festival every year as an artist. She studied with Hakuro Mori, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Arto Noras, Ivan Monighetti, Sol Gabetta and Also she studied Period cello with Christophe Coin.
https://www.ayano-kamimura.com/
Composers:
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Annelies Van Parys
Annelies Van Parys is one of Belgium’s leading composers. She writes solo and chamber music works as well as large orchestral compositions with a great preference for music theatre. Since 2007, she is a resident composer of Muziektheater Transparant. She received direct commissions from venues and performers as Belgian National Orchestra, Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin (Germany), Folkoperan Stockholm (Sweden), Biennale Musica di Venezia (Italy) and Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam (Holland) and wrote for ensembles such as Recherche Freiburg, Ictus Ensemble, Asko/Schoenberg, New York New Music Ensemble and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. She was awarded numerous prizes (amongst them, the Fedora-Rolf Liebermann for Opera). She worked with conductors as Otto Tausk, Sian Edwards, Patrick Davin, James Wood, Marit Strindlund and Martyn Brabbins amongst others. Annelies Van Parys is frequently invited for international jury’s and masterclasses and is currently professor of composition at the Brussels Royal Conservatory.
https://www.anneliesvanparys.be/
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Naoki Sakata
Born in Kyoto, in 1981, he studied at the Aichi University of the Arts, the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Stefano Gervasoni and Cursus I in the IRCAM. He received numerous prizes and rewards such as 36th Irino Prize, 1st prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, the 28th Akutagawa Composition Award, and the 66th Otaka Prize. He was supported by the scholarships of the Sacem and of the Rohm Music Foundation. His music has been performed in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and programed in prestigious festivals and projects such as the Takefu International Music Festival as invited composer, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Suntory Summer Festival, World Saxophone Congress, Festival Musica in Strasbourg, the International Music Festival of Rima, and Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont. He received diverse commissions by eminent organizations and musiciens such as French Ministry of Culture, France Musique, Suntory Fondation for the Arts, Takefu International Music Festival, Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble Nomad, Les Percussions de Strasbourg among others. He was the composer in residence at the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble Écoute in Paris.
https://naokisakata.net/
Claude Ledoux
For many years the composer Claude Ledoux has explored the idea of « crossed resonances » as he attempts to reflect our fragmented world in his music. His works often demonstrate his interest in ‘cultural porosity’ and transversality in which emotion arises from geographical encounters and historical connections. Fascinated by non-European music, he has travelled extensively in the East, where he carried out musical field researches. His compositions, from solo to orchestral with or without electronics, are performed frequently on every continent. In 2016, he composed the compulsory concerto for the Queen Elisabeth Competition. From that time he also wrote many musical works related to Japan (Shakuhachi Konzert, Tomoe, Japanese E-mails, Eurydice Effacée, …)
Artistic Director (and founding member) of the LAPS Ensemble, Ledoux is also an international musicologist who has written numerous papers on musical researches and composition. He is Professor of Musical Analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) and Composition at Mons/Arts2. He also gave many lectures and taught Composition and Contemporary Analysis at seminars in Europa, America and Asia. More recently he gave masterclasses in Brazil, China, Armenia and Kazakhstan as guest composer and professor.
He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium since 2005.
https://ledouxclaude.be/
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José María Sánchez-Verdú
José M. Sánchez-Verdú was born in 1968 in Andalucia, Spain and currently lives in Berlin and Madrid. He studied Composition, Orchestra Conducting and Musicology in Madrid, Siena and Frankfurt (Postgraduate Studies with Hans Zender). He has also a degree in Law (Universidad Complutense Madrid), and a Ph.D. (Universidad Autónoma Madrid).
His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Orquestre de la Suisse Romande, Luzener Sinfonieorchester, and many others with conductors as Z. Mehta, Frühbeck de Burgos, P. Rundel, L. Zagrosek, S. Cambreling, etc. His works have been featured in festivals such as Ultraschall Berlin, MärzMusik, Münchener Biennale, Wien Modern, Salzburg-Biennale, Musica Nova Helsinki, Ars Musica Bruxelles, Operadhoy Madrid, la Biennale di Venezia, Lincoln Center New York, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires etc. He was Composer in residence in different festivals and orchestras in Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Peru etc. He was Composer in residence with the Dresdner Philharmonie in the last past two years.
His music involves new dramaturgies, light, architecture and installation perspectives and has an special interest on the arabic culture (poetry, mysticism, architecture, music and calligraphy). His music theater pieces have been performed at the Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Luzerner Theater, Münchener Biennale, Teatro Real Madrid, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires etc. Sánchez-Verdú has previously been teaching at RCSM Madrid, at CSMA (Saragossa), at the C. M. von Weber Musikhochschule in Dresden, and at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover. Currently he is an Honorar-Professor for composition at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf and is also a Professor for composition at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid. Since 2022 he is part of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. His works has been recorded in different monographics by labels such as Kairos, Col-legno, Verso, Columna Musica, Harmonia Mundi, etc. and are published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
https://sanchez-verdu.com/
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Toshio Hosokawa
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