Concert with two digital pianos Project "Black and White" Vol. 1
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Yua Honjo
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5(2023) 3rd Startup Grant
Business Overview
"Think from sound, not music." This is a challenging project that uses digital pianos, which are considered fake in the classical music world, as concert instruments. With 2 digital pianos and professional sound production, stage and lighting, 20 century piano works are performed. In an open rehearsal held in advance, he and the president of an electronic piano shop talked about listening points and the potential of electronic instruments. Program: Gustave Horst Suite “Planet ” Op. 32 -4“ Jupiter ” -1914 Maurice Ravel “Sonatine ” -1905 Kosugi Takehisa“ DISTANCE FOR PIANO ” -1965(revised, 2005) Steve Reich “Piano Phase ” -1967 Claude Debussy“ In Black and White ” -1915 Digital Piano: Yua Honjo, Hiroshi Yokoyama Sound: Yosuke Inoue Stage: Shintaro Fukuda Lighting: Makoto Uemura Video: Magatama Cinema Photos: Ryo Kaneko Cooperation: Office Zero Support: Japan Piano Instructors Association
- implementation period
- Tuesday, January 30, 2024, Sunday, February 25
- Place of implementation
- Nakameguro GT Plaza Hall (Meguro-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
Honjo Yua
Born in 1995. He was born in Shiga Prefecture. After graduating from Nada High School, he studied the theory of musical performance at the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He wrote a dissertation, <<Philosophical Problems of Technological Skill Substitution on the Definition of Music Performance ― Focusing on Godrovic's Theory of Performance ―>> and graduated as a junior. Completed a master's degree in the Department of Piano, Music Research Division, Toho Gakuen Graduate School of Music. He was awarded the Graduate University Scholarship for his research achievements for two consecutive years. He passed the university audition and performed Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Toho Academy Orchestra. Concerts planned independently such as "Takashi Aragaki ×QREHA Strings" are well received. He has studied under Hiromi Okada, Aya Tsurumi, Itsuki Takahashi and Yohei Kuroki.