Baroque to the Future
Yelun Berwaltz ∞ Naoki Sakata with Yokohama Sinfonietta
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Okamura & Company Ltd.
- subsidy category
- Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY 2018 Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant Term 2
Business Overview
The future left to Naoki Sakata and Berwaltz, who conquered a composition contest in Japan in 2017. The talented trumpeter Yelun Berwaltz, who is adored by composers all over the world and has an extraordinary talent in technique and expression, teamed up with the composer Naoki Sakata, who is the most trusted and watched now, to develop a new repertoire of trumpets! A new song by a trumpet solo and a string ensemble will be born. From Baroque masterpieces to new pieces, it is a program for the future with Yokohama Sinfonietta's cutting-edge string ensemble. Performers: Yeroon Berwaltz (Trumpet) Yokohama Sinfonietta (String Ensemble) Program: Handel from Suite "Music on Water" Hindemith: Five Pieces for Strings op. 44-4 Teleman: Trumpet Concerto in D Major Michael Blake Watkins: Death of Reagle Bach/Stokowski Arrangement: Aria on the G Line Naoki Sakata: New Compositions for Trumpet and String Ensemble (commissioned/world premiere)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Thursday, November 7, 2019 19:00 Start/18:30 Open
- Venues
- Oji Hall (Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
[Okamura & Company, Ltd.]
The Arditti String Quartet and dancer Tsuyoshi Shirai toured the country (total of 16 shows) with John Cage/Arditti arrangement "Apartment House 1776" (2004-05), and the group also tours contemporary music every two years, broadcast on NHK (2017). The year after Tambuco (percussion ensemble, Mexico) received the Japan Foundation Award, they organized a residency project in Mexico for four young Japanese composers. They have also produced the Japanese premieres of Toshio Hosokawa's "The Singing Gardens of Venice" and "The Raven" (2014), and the world premiere of Aichi Triennale's "The Secret Bedroom" (2016).