In 2015, a new professional chamber choir called vocalconsort initium was established in Tokyo. This is the 8th concert organized by them. Titled “Profundity of Japanese Choral Music,” the concert focuses on the works of contemporary Japanese composers. It presents pieces with various configurations and acoustic rules, aiming to clarify the relationship between the Japanese language and music, as well as the relationship between language and music. This concert is an attempt to contemporize the critical nature of choral music within the context of classical music.

Conductor: Kota Yanagishima
M. Ravel / C. Gottwald “Soupir” (Poem: S. Mallarmé)
Jo Kondo “Sigh” (Text: S. Mallarmé, translated by Bin Ueda)

Conductor: Kaoru Tani
Midori Narikiyo “sasaya[ki|cu]bism”
Naoyuki Manabe “Three Poems/Death” (Text: J. Eichendorff, R. M. Rilke, Minako Oba)
Yuta Miyake “Conception I based on the texts of Shuji Terayama” (Text: Shuji Terayama)

Piano: Hiroyuki Oda
Conductor: Kota Yanagishima
Akira Miyoshi “Joumon Rentou” (Text: Sakon Sou)