Tokyo Cantat 2023
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Ongakuju
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 4(2022) 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
"Cantat" is a new word that refers to events such as concerts, workshops, and performances for choral singing held intensively for a certain period of time. With the aim of promoting choral music in Japan and promoting choral activities as a culture, the festival has been held every year since 1996. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival was postponed or partially held, but in 2023 it was held as usual for the first time in 4 years. Comprising the two pillars of introducing choral music from around the world and reaffirming Japanese choral culture, the event held seminars and concerts with world-renowned conductors and composers as lecturers, as well as a concert that delved anew into the music of Akira Miyoshi, who celebrated 10 years since his death and 90 years since his birth. In addition, the "Choral Conducting Competition for Young Conductors," which has been held every other year since 2008, was held with an audience for the first time in 5 years. It makes a great contribution to the development of young people who will be responsible for the future of Japanese chorus.
- Period of Activity / Project
- April 29, 2023 (Sat/Holiday) - Tuesday, May 30
- Venues
- Dai-ichi Seimei Hall (Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
Sumida Triphony Hall (Sumida-ku, Tokyo)
Morishita Culture Center (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
Toyosu Culture Center (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
Sunamachi Culture Center (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
Koto-ku Culture Center (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
[General Incorporated Association Ongakuju]
With the aim of promoting choral music as an art form and choral activities as a culture, Ongakuju was established in 11, 1996 as a group of choreographers who think about choral music in the 21 century. Choral conductors, composers, poets, pianists, voice trainers, choral singers, and others who are involved in choral music gather together to create a place where people can pursue better music and share musical emotions with people around the world.
"Music Tree" positions Tokyo Cantat and Coro Festa as two main projects. At Tokyo Cantat, they want to touch and learn the world's top level choral music, and at Coro Festa, they want to have a place to enjoy better choral music with more people, and in the future, they want to make it an event that can be transmitted to the world. May 1997 Tokyo Cantat 97 was held for the first time. Since then, Tokyo Cantat has been established as a major chorus event held every May. Coro Festa vol. 1 was held in 1997, and since then it has been held every year in various places in Japan (Matsuyama, Utsunomiya, Kobe, Kanazawa, Taisha, Niigata, Iwamizawa, Masuda, Kitakyushu, Kawakami-mura, Nagano Prefecture, Fukuyama, Matsumoto, Yokohama, Miyakonojo, Otaru, Akita Senboku, Kawagoe, Hita, Tokai, Kushiro, Tsuruoka, Taketa Oita). In addition, 'Spring Atelier' (a chorus workshop mainly for students) and 'Yatsugatake Music Seminar' (Planned and executed with composers Tokuhide SHINMI and Akira NISHIMURA. produce new works every year with contemporary composers) are held. In 2011, the previous year's "Tokyo Cantat 2010" received the "Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Music Award Encouragement Prize." On January 1, 12 2022, "Ongakuju" (Music Tree), a group of choreographers of the Association for Considering Choral Music in the 21 Century, became a general incorporated association, Ongakuju.