Music from Japan 2017 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
FY28 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term
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 will be invited to participate in lectures, forums, and concerts during their one-week stay in New York City to contribute to mutual understanding and artistic enlightenment with American critics and composers. 1) Composition Seminar: "Kenji Sakai: An Introduction to His Own Works" 2) Symposium: "Japanese Instrument Works by American Composers" 3) Lecture: "On 'Different Cultures' Surrounding Japan's Contemporary Music World" Fuyuko Fukunaka (Musicologist) 4) Concert I: "Kenji Sakai's Personal Exhibition"/Forum I: "Japan's Contemporary Music World from the Viewpoint of American Critics" 5) Concert II: "A New Direction for Japanese Contemporary Music" Fuyuko Fukunaka's Selected Music/Forum II: "The Present State of Japanese Contemporary Music Creation"
- Period of Activity / Project
- Tuesday, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 – 21st
- Venues
- New York City, United States: Dodge Hall (Columbia University), the Japan Foundation New York Japanese Cultural Center, and Victor Borge Hall (Scandinavia House)
*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 business of Music From Japan, Inc., which introduces Japanese contemporary music, classical and contemporary Japanese music to the United States and the world. Over the past 40 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.