4Brothers 3rd performance: Fujobura Fuyu Monogatari '25
Business Overview
This third performance is a theatrical concert rarely seen in Japan, in which the works are arranged with a storyline and connected by using stage and sound devices, and the whole is depicted as a story, like an act of an opera or a play. The story is set in a church where snow is falling and piling up, and a salon where the sound of firewood is heard. The two faces of winter, solemn and warm, are depicted with saxophone.
Francis Poulenc: 4 Motets for Christmas, 1. The Great Mystery
Maurice Ravel: In the Style of Borodin
João Pérez Villegas: The Only Mystery – In Memory of Federico García Lorca
Jacob Tel Verduy: Jesus Comes
Hymn: Come, Holy Messiah
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Four Seasons
Alexander Glazunov: Saxophone Quartet, Op. 109
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, December 27, 2025
- Venues
- Gotanda Culture Center Music Hall (Shinagawa Ward)
Profile
[4 Brothers]
4BROTHERS is a music group newly formed by four classmates who entered the saxophone department of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016.
The inspiration for the group came from the experience of playing together at the school's regular concert, which is held independently by the students once a year. For us, the differences in the personalities of the four were very interesting and exciting, but we also respected and sympathized with their attitudes toward music. After studying their respective careers, they reconvened when two members returned to Japan and formed the group in 2023 to work as one.
When it comes to four saxophonists, it is common to have a quartet, but the aim is not to be bound too much by a fixed composition, but to create an interesting place for the audience by sharing their knowledge with each other based on their individual strengths. The prospect of the group's activities for the time being is to hold regular independent concerts with unique themes for each performance.