Music from Japan 2020 Music Festival
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Music from Japan Promotion Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
2019 2nd term Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]
Business Overview
This is a continuation of the artist residency that Music from Japan started as a new trial in 2016. Music critics and composers from Japan and the United States were invited to attend lectures, forums, and concerts during their one-week stay in New York City to contribute to mutual understanding and artistic enlightenment between the participants from both countries.
1) Composition Seminar "Wakako Koide: Approach to Composition and Introduction of Her Original Work" 2) Symposium "Japan and America: Composers and Critics Living in Contemporary Society V" 3) Concert I "Exhibition of Wakako Koide's Works"/Forum I "Generation of Identity without Identity" 4) Lecture: Seiji Nagagi (Musicologist) 5) Concert II "Concert by Seiji Nagagi's Selected Music"/Forum II
- Period of Activity / Project
- Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - Sunday, February 23
- Venues
- Columbia University Dodge Hall, the Japan Foundation New York Japanese Cultural Center, and Scandinavian House Volvo Hall (all located in New York City, USA)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【 Music From Japan Promotion Executive Committee 】
A voluntary organization established in New York to promote the Music From Japan, Inc. project, which introduces Japanese contemporary music, classical and contemporary Japanese music to the United States and the world. Over the past 45 years, the company has commissioned music from corporate composers and has held concerts and educational programs in New York, Washington DC, the United States, Latin America and Central Asia.