6th Chiyoda Art Festival
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Kanda Uta En
- subsidy category
- Regional Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 5(2023) 1st Term Regional Grant [Newly established in FY2023]
Business Overview
The Chiyoda Art Festival has an activity policy of "Delivering quality music to everyone from children to the elderly" and aims at the development and permeation of art culture by experiencing high-quality music to many people of a wide range of ages through activities such as "management of a public choir (adults and children)" inviting top leaders, dispatching musicians to elementary and junior high schools and welfare facilities, and performing at Kyoritsu Auditorium and Hibiya Step Square.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Monday, May 1, 2023 - Sunday, February 25, 2024
- Venues
- Waters Common Hall (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Tokyo Midtown Hibiya Step Square (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Kyoritsu Auditorium (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[Kanda Uta Banquet]
Chiyoda Art Festival Artistic Director and Tenor Shida Yukei
Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, completed a doctoral course in opera, and received a doctorate in music. Won the first prize in the vocal section of the 74 Japan Music Competition. Matsushita Prize. He won the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Prize for New Opera and studied in New York. While studying abroad, he won a prize at the Akkadia Opera Competition. He collaborated with orchestras such as the N-Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Yomikyo Orchestra, and the Seiji Ozawa Music School, as well as many conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Michiyoshi Inoue, Tadaaki Odaka, and Kenichiro Kobayashi.