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World Premiere of Toshi Ichiyanagi's Piano Concerto No. 6 and Symphony No. 10

May. 05, 2016

World Premiere of Toshi Ichiyanagi's <em>Piano Concerto No. 6</em> and <em>Symphony No. 10</em>

In May and June 2016, Toshi Ichiyanagi sees the world premieres of two major new works, as well as a composer residency at the 2016 Composium Festival.

The 2016 Composium Festival opens in Tokyo with a portrait concert of chamber works on May 20. The festival continues on May 25, when Ichiyanagi joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra as soloist in the debut of his Piano Concerto No. 6 “Zen”, conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama. The concert is dedicated to Ichiyanagi’s orchestral works and also features performances of Between Space and Time, for chamber orchestra, and Symphony “Berlin Renshi”, for soprano, tenor and orchestra.

Ichiyanagi’s Piano Concerto No. 6 is a type of fantasy consisting of six sections: the first section is to be performed first, but the other sections can be arranged in any order. The two most striking features of this work are that more than half of the orchestral parts are in graphic notation, and that each section of the orchestra also performs within a solistic context. 

On June 2, Kentaro Kawase leads the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in the world premiere of Ichiyanagi’s Symphony No. 10 “Scenes of Various Memories”. The performance takes place at the Ishikawa Ongakudo in Kanazawa, Japan. 

Details on the performances can be found at operacity.jp and oek.jp.

For more information on Toshi Ichiyanagi, visit schott-music.com.

Toshi Ichiyanagi
Piano Concerto No. 6 “Zen” (2016)
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15’ 

Symphony No. 10 (2016)
Scenes of Various Memories
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13’

Between Space and Time (2001)
for chamber orchestra
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12’ 

Symphony “Berlin Renshi” (1988)
for soprano, tenor and orchestra
text (Jp, Ger) by Makoto Ooka, Karin Kiwus, Hiroshi Kawasaki and Guntram Vesper
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42’

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