Music from Japan 2025 Music Festival 50 Anniversary Season
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Music from Japan Promotion Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY2024 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
This is a continuation of the artist residency that Music from Japan started as a new trial in 2016. Music critics and composers from Japan and the United States were invited to participate in the event to contribute to mutual understanding and artistic enlightenment between participants from both countries through lectures, concerts, and post-concert forums. 1) Composition Seminar: "Approach to Composition and Introduction of Original Works" by Tetsuya YAMAMOTO and Chizu no Ei-ryu 2) Gagaku Master Class 3) Lecture: Mayumi MIYATA "On Gagaku and" The Voice of Time "Concert I: Gagaku Ensemble" The Voice of Time "4) Lecture: Miyuki SHIRAISHI" Regional Characteristics of Contemporary Japanese Composers "Concert II:" Recent Sound of Japan V "(Works by Mariko ENDO, Chizu no Ei-ryu and Makoto OHATA)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025 – Saturday, February 22
- Venues
- Scandinavia House (New York, USA) Columbia University (New York, USA)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【 Music From Japan Promotion Executive Committee 】
A voluntary organization established in New York to promote the business of Music From Japan, Inc., which introduces Japanese contemporary music, classical and contemporary Japanese music to the United States and the world. Over the past 50 years, she has commissioned music from Japanese composers, and has held concerts and educational programs in New York, Washington, D.C., the United States, Central America, and Central Asia.