|
 |
|
Suntory Music Foundation Summer Festival 2005
The 15th Akutagawa Award for Music Composition
|
|
|
|
Suntory Music Foundation (chaired by Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi) holds annually Summer Festival at Suntory Hall since 1987. This year's Festival took place from 22 through 31 August.
|
|
|
Salvatore Sciarrino was focused as the theme composer in "Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition", the series of concerts which have been incorporated a part of the festival since last year. He is the second Italian composer focused in the series, and had been introduced to Japan in 1987 by Luigi Nono who was the then theme composer. "Shadow of sound", commissioned by Suntory Hall, was premiered in its Main Hall under the baton of Tito Ceccherini, who also Japan premiered work of Luigi Nono and Stefano Gervasoni. In the small Hall concert, Otto Katzameier sang Sciarrino's "Quaderno di strada"(Japan premiere) with Klangforum Wien conducted by Beat Furrer.
|
|
 |
|
Sciarrino gives lecture
the first appearance to Japanese public
|
|
|
 |
|
Katzameier sings "Quaderno di strada"
|
|
|
|
Lectures by Sciarrino have been given to the enthusiastic public prior to two concerts.
|
|
|
In "Music in Current" series in this festival, the newest orchestral and chamber works composed in 2003-2004 including Eliot Carter's "Dialogues, for piano and chamber orchestra" have been Japan-premiered.
|
|
|
Two evenings of "Vienna of the 20th Century" introduced the orchestral music composed by New Vienna school and its descendant composers, Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Ligeti, Boulez to Haas, etc., to illustrate the evolution through the century.
|
|
 |
|
Ms Yumi Saiki,
the 15th Akutagawa Award winner
|
The 15th competition of Akutagawa Award for Music Composition was hold in the framework of the Festival. After the premiere performance of the commissioned work by Hiroyuki Yamamoto, 13th Akutagawa Award winner, pieces of four finalists of this year were performed by New Japan Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Kazuhiko Komatsu. Three judges, Toshiro Saruya, Joji Yuasa and Ichiro Nodaira discussed in public and finally chose Ms. Yumi Saiki's "Entomophonie III" as winner of the 15th Akutagawa Award for Music Composition.
|
|
|
500,000 yen cash award was given and a new orchestra work is commissioned by the Foundation to Ms. Saiki to schedule to be premiered in 2007.
|
Wednesday, August 25, 2005, 7:00 pm, The Small Hall
THEME COMPOSER <Salvatore Sciarrino>
Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition No.29
The Composer talks about his works and himself
|
|
|
Saturday, August 27, 2005, 7:00 pm, The Main Hall
THEME COMPOSER <Salvatore Sciarrino>
|
|
|
 |
|
Nicolas Hodges plays the piano in "Il clima dopo Harry Partch"
|
Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition No.29
Orchestral Works
Cond: Tito Ceccherini
Piano: Nicolas Hodges
Orch: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Salvatore Sciarrino/ Il clima dopo Harry Partch (2000) Japan Premiere
Luigi Nono/ A Carlo Scarpa architetto, ai suoi infiniti possibili (1984)
Stefano Gervasoni/ Sensibile (1989) Japan Premiere
Salvatore Sciarrino/ Shadow of sound (2005, commissioned by Suntory Hall) World Premiere
|
|
|
Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 7:00 pm, The Main Hall
VIENNNA OF THE 20th CENTURY <ORCHESTRAL WORKS>
|
|
|
 |
|
Mayuko Kamio in Berg's violin concerto conducted by Ken Takaseki
|
Cond: Ken Takaseki
S: Eiko Morikawa / Bs: Kiyotaka Kaga
Vn: Mayuko Kamio
Chor: Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus (Chorus Master: Kenji Otani)
Orch: Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schönberg/ Waltzer Japan Premiere
Anton Webern/ II.Kantate op.31 (1943)
Anton Webern/ Das Augenlicht op.26 (1935)
List/ Webern/ Arbeiterchor (1924) Japan Premiere
Ernst Krenek/ Symphonic Elegy op.105 (1946)
Alban Berg / Violinkonzert (1935)
|
|
|
Wednesday, August 31, 2005, 7:00 pm, The Small Hall
VIENNNA OF THE 20th CENTURY <CHAMBER MUSIC>
|
|
|
Cond: Beat Furrer
Orch: Klangforum Wien
Pierre Boulez/ Dérive 1 (1984)
Anton Webern/ Quartett op.22 (1928-30)
György Ligeti/ 10 Stücke für Blaserquintett (1968)
Franz Schreker/ Der Wind (1909)
Anton Webern/ Konzert für neun Instrumente,op.24 (1934)
Georg Friedrich Haas/ Nach-Ruf...ent-gleitend...(1999) Japan Premiere
|
|
The Suntory Music Foundation was established in 1969 with the objective of contributing to the development of western-style classical and contemporary music in Japan and chaired by Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. The main activities of the foundation are annual presentation of the Suntory Music Award and Keizo Saji Prize, Akutagawa Award for Music Composition, publication of a Bibliography on Japanese Composition, etc. |
|
The Suntory Music Foundation:
http://www.suntory.co.jp/culture/smf/ (in Japanese only) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
