Featuring Western art music specialist and composer Akiko Yamane as its artistic director, this year’s festival themed around “secondary creation” will offer piano concerts and artist talks.
What exactly is originality, and where does creativity lie? In contemporary thought on the arts, writing unique music from scratch using musical notes has come to hold sway as the definition of originality in composition. Given that now in the 2020s countless musical compositions already exist and can be mass-produced, the focus of the festival is to bring together works that use existing pieces and concepts in some form or other.

Artistic Director: Akiko Yamane
Performers: Hyun-Mook Lim, Maya Kawasaki, Yusuke Satake, Takuya Otaki, Akiko Fujita
Commissioned new works: Akiko Yamane, Ayana Tsujita, Rei Haimachi, Natsuki Nakajima, Yuri Umemoto, Mieko Shiomi
Arrangements: Yuri Umemoto, Natsuki Nakajima
Talk guest: Toshie Kakinuma
Stage direction: Naya Collective Ltd.
Streaming: Wataru Shoji
Production: Yaeko Kurosaki