Concert commemorating 95 years since the birth of the late Yoshiro Irino
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- Name of the organization or individual
- NPO JML Music Research Institute
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY28 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 1st term
Business Overview
The composer Yoshiro Irino (1921-1980) is known as the composer of the first 12 tone work by a Japanese. Irino is one of the most important Japanese composers a generation older than Toru Takemitsu, and 2016 marks the 95 year anniversary of his birth. To commemorate this occasion, six pieces from Irino's chamber music works will be selected in a way that expands his creative activities, and will be performed by excellent young players. This is not just a retrospective exhibition, but is intended to rediscover the outstanding music of Irino and pass it on to the next generation. Comes: [by Yoshiro Irino] Variations for Piano (1943) Partita for Kangaku Quintet (1962) Music for Violin and Piano (1957) Frosty Garden (1961) 3 Improvisations for Solo Flute (1972) Four Major (1979) Conductors: Hiroaki Takaba, Ryuta Nishikawa Chorus: Voxmana Flute: Junichiro Taku Violin: Saori Nakazawa Piano: Eri Sasaki, Masanobu Shinoda, Kazuyuki Tanaka Shakuhachi: Michiyama Fujiwara 20 stringed Soh: Yumi Kurosawa Sanguen: Shujiro Honjo 17 stringed Soh: Noriko Hirata and others
- Period of Activity / Project
- Monday, November 14, 2016
- Venues
- Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
【JML Music Research Institute 】
JML aims to contribute to world peace through international exchange by conducting education, creation, dissemination and nurturing activities related to music, art and performing arts for the general public. Based on these objectives, the organization holds music courses on solfege, piano, and conducting as needed, and also organizes performances focusing on international exchange, such as the "Japan-Germany Youth Exchange Concert," as well as cooperative projects such as the "Irino Prize (International Composition Award)."