Stage Performance,2024 Photo: Ryo Kaneko
Talk Session in Open Rehearsal,2024 Photo: Ryo Kaneko
Player and Staffs, 2024
“Thinking in terms of sound, not music.”
A challenging project to treat the electronic piano (digital piano), which is treated as a “fake” in the world of classical music, as a concert instrument. Two digital pianos will be set up and professional sound production, stage, and lighting will be incorporated to perform piano works of the 20th century.
In an “open rehearsal” held prior to the concert, the president of the digital piano specialist will join the audience in a dialogue about what to listen to and the possibilities of electronic musical instruments.
Program:
Gustav Holst
Suite “The Planets” Op. 32-4 “Jupiter” – 1914
Maurice Ravel
Sonatine -1905
Takehisa Kosugi
DISTANCE FOR PIANO-1965(revised,2005)
Steve Reich
Piano Phase-1967
Claude Debussy
In Black and White-1915
Digital piano: Yua Honjo, Hiroshi Yokoyama
Sound: Yosuke Inoue
Stage: Shintaro Fukuda
Lighting: Makoto Uemura
Video: Magatama Cinema
Photo: Ryo Kaneko
Cooperation: Office Zero
Supported by: PTNA
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Yua Honjo
Born in 1995, in Shiga Prefecture. After attending Nada High School, studied performance theory at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Letters. Graduated second in his class with a thesis entitled “The Philosophical Problem of the Substitution of Skills by Technology on the Definition of Musical Performance: Focusing on Godolovitch’s Theory of Performance. Completed a master’s degree in piano performance at the Toho Gakuen Graduate School. For his research achievements, he was awarded the scholarship for two consecutive years. Passed an on-campus audition and performed Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” with the Toho Academy Orchestra. His self-produced concerts, such as “Takashi Niigaki x QREHA Strings,” have been well received. He has studied under Hiromi Okada, Aya Tsurumi, Itsuki Takahashi, and Yohei Kurogi.
Nakameguro GT Plaza Hall, Meguro City, Tokyo
