El Sistema Children's Choir Festival in Tokyo: A time for everyone to shine through songs

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

El Sistema Japan

subsidy category

Grant for Creating Attractive Art and Culture

Grant Type

single year

FY 2023 1st Grant for Creating Attractive Arts and Culture

El Sistema Children's Choir Festival in Tokyo (2024) Photo by Hisanori Takenaka

El Sistema Children's Choir Festival in Tokyo (2024) Photo by Hisanori Takenaka

El Sistema Children's Choir Festival in Tokyo (2024) Photo by Hisanori Takenaka

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Business Overview

Children from the Soma Children's Chorus, Tokyo Children's Ensemble, and Maizuru Children's Chorus, who are studying chorus at El Sistema in Japan, gathered in Tokyo to sing together and hold a chorus festival in which people of all ages and disabilities can enjoy singing together. Through the lively singing of a diverse group of children learning together and aiming for a higher level of music, they shared the diversity that is familiar to them through culture and art and the beauty of being able to freely exercise their imagination. Chorus: Soma Children's Chorus, Tokyo Children's Ensemble, Maizuru Children's Chorus Fujio Furuhashi, Saori Nakano, Miyako Kawasaki (conductor), Masumi Yoshikawa (soprano), Harumi Noma, Miho Shikata, Seiji Matsushima (piano), Yuji Regaro Tokyo (supporting) Program: "Fushiginasekai" Poem: Hajime Kijima Music: Tokuei Niimi "With Egao" Lyrics: Maizuru Smiling Choir ~Sonnet~ Music: Seiji Matsushima "Children's Dreams and Prayers" Composition/Arrangement: Fujio Furuhashi/Yasuo Minami "Kodomo no Heiwa" (Tokyo premiere) Music: Ichiro Hirano and others

implementation period

Monday, July 15, 2024

Place of implementation

National Olympic Memorial Youth Center (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo)

Profile

El Sistema Japan
El Sistema is a music education program that started in Venezuela in South America. In Japan, El Sistema Japan started in 2012 in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, with the initial aim of helping children affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake recover their self-confidence and dignity through the experience of music and develop the ability to navigate their own lives. Its activities expanded to Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture, in 2014, Komagane City, Nagano Prefecture, and Tokyo in 2017, and Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, and Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture, in 2022. Conducted violin classes at orphanages in April 2023. Its vision is "a symbiotic society in which everyone can freely exercise their creativity."