4Brothers 2nd performance seriously! Have fun! LET'S GO!!

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Name of the organization or individual

4Brothers

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2023 (4) Startup Subsidy

Seriously! Have fun! LET'S GO!! (2024)

Seriously! Have fun! LET'S GO!! (2024)

Seriously! Have fun! LET'S GO!! (2024)

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Business Overview

Four Brothers is an ensemble group formed by four students who studied as classmates at Tokyo University of the Arts. The second performance was titled "Seriously! Have fun! LET'S GO!!" and the two themes went back and forth. We will send you a program with contrasting expressions.

Program
• Takashi Yoshimatsu: From the Fuzzy Bird Sonata
• Roger Boutley: Serenade
• Jean Francais: Theme and Variations (saxophone version)
• Luis Naon: Branching Paths
• Claude Debussy: Island of Joy (saxophone quartet arrangement)
• Fuminori Tanada: Mysterious Morning 2
• Florin Schmidt: Saxophone quartet

Performers
[4Brothers] Hiromu Ito Tomomi Goto Mowaga Koji Yamamoto
[Piano] Michiyo Hanaishi

implementation period

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Place of implementation

Gotanda Culture Center Music Hall (Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo)

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Profile

[4 Brothers]
4BROTHERS is a music group newly formed by four classmates who entered the saxophone department of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016.
The inspiration for the group came from the experience of playing together at the school's regular concert, which is held independently by the students once a year. For us, the differences in the personalities of the four were very interesting and exciting, but we also respected and sympathized with their attitudes toward music. After studying their respective careers, they reconvened when two members returned to Japan and formed the group in 2023 to work as one.
When it comes to four saxophonists, it is common to have a quartet, but the aim is not to be bound too much by a fixed composition, but to create an interesting place for the audience by sharing their knowledge with each other based on their individual strengths. The prospect of the group's activities for the time being is to hold regular independent concerts with unique themes for each performance.
The name of the group, "4 Brothers," was suggested by Ito, and conveys the image of a group that has a sense of togetherness and warmth like a classmate family, while having a kind of separate personality like brothers.