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Contemporary Japanese music "Hibiki" concerts and lectures

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Name of the organization or individual
Alumni Association of NHK Traditional Japanese Music Technicians
subsidy category
Creation Grant
Grant Type
single year

FY29 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term

Business Overview

This concert is held with the aim of passing down music with traditional Japanese instruments (mainly music born in the 1960s and 1970s) to the next generation as an art that lives in the present. [Program] 1. Wind, Light and Sky (composed by Toshinao Sato) Conductor: Yasuaki Itakura 2. Songen ensemble "Hymn of Spring" (composed by Masakuni Kineya) Instructor: Kokuni Kineya 3. Essay for Japanese Instruments (composed by Yutaka Makino) Conductor: Norihiro Ishikawa 4. Density (composed by Kei Hitoyanagi) Conductor: Yasuaki Itakura 5. Ring of Trees (composed by Masao Matsumoto) Instructor: Sumiko Goto [Performance] Member of the Alumni Association of NHK Traditional Japanese Music Technicians

Period of Activity / Project
Sunday, November 5, 2017 - Saturday, March 10, 2018
Venues
Nihonbashi Public Hall (Chuo Ward, Tokyo)


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Profile

[Alumni Association of NHK Traditional Japanese Music Technicians]
This association was established in September 2011 by alumni of the NHK Traditional Japanese Music Technicians Training Association, which was held by NHK for 55 years from 1955 to 2010 to train traditional Japanese music performers.
Since 2013, he has performed mainly pieces commissioned by NHK for the graduation concert of the Japanese Music Technician Training Association. Contemporary Japanese Music "Kou" 2013 ~2016 (4 times)
Since 2017, the program has been expanded to include contemporary Japanese music works that we want to leave in the future.
Contemporary Japanese music "Hibiki" 2017 ~ (2nd performance)
President: Shizuko Kineya
Vice Presidents: Sumiko Goto, Takafu Mitsuhashi