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Sat 16 Nov 2024 11:00
10:30 Doors open
MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall
Seat Range | General Public | U25 (age 7 - 25) |
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All reserved seating | ¥4,000 | ¥1,500 |
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MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall
044-520-0200 (10:00 - 18:00)
by MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall (Kawasaki Cultural Foundation Group)
Well known for the power, clarity, and depth of intellectual and emotional understanding of his interpretations, particularly of Mahler’s works, Jonathan Nott was first invited in 2011 to conduct the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, one of the most innovative of Japanese orchestras. The result of this fruitful meeting was his immediate appointment in 2014 as Music Director. After an initial contract of three years, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra announced that they had immediately extended his tenure for 10 years through the 2025-2026 season.
«Take a risk! » was the quotation, inspired by Jonathan Nott, on the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra’s 2019-season fans’ T-shirt. During the 2020 pandemic, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra became the first orchestra to perform live with its Music Director via pre-recorded video. The year 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the orchestra.
Highlights of past seasons with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra include Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder as part of the 15th Anniversary of the Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, the TSO’s home, and concert performances of all three of Mozart’s Da Ponte Operas. In October 2016 he led the TSO on their 70th anniversary European tour, including a sold-out concert at Musikverein Großer Saal in Vienna.
He studied musical analysis and composition at the University of Cambridge as a choral scholar at St. John’s College; singing and flute at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; conducting at the National Opera Studio in London. His conducting career began at the opera houses in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, developing a repertoire spanning the whole gamut of theatrical styles: all the major works of the operatic repertoire (including Wagner’s complete Ring cycle), Sondheim, contemporary opera and ballet.
His passion for contemporary music spawned a close relationship with Ensemble Modern, and forged long-standing artistic and personal collaborations with composers of the ‘60s avant-garde, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as most of the composers of his own generation.
Keigo Mukawa was born in Aichi, Japan in 1993. After studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with unanimous top honours by the jury. He has since been awarded a master’s degree in 2019 and a Performing Artists’ Diploma in 2021. At present, he is continuing his studies in the fortepiano in Paris, where he currently resides. His principal teachers until now have been Frank Braley, Haruko Ueda, Théodore Paraskivesko, Yukio Yokoyama, Susumu Aoyagi, Patrick Cohen and Daria Fadeeva.
He has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, the most prestigious of which are a 3rd Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 2021 and a 2nd Prize at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in France in 2019. Other achievements include a 1st Prize at the 81st Japan Music Concours in 2012, 2nd Prize at the 25th Concours International de Piano d’Épinal in France, 2nd prize at the 18th International Piano Competition of Ile-de-France in 2016 and a 1st prize at the Coop Music Awards Competition in Italy in 2017.
With a repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music, Keigo Mukawa is known not only for his versatile tone quality, but also for his phenomenal interpretive abilities, thanks to which he is able to aptly express the stylistic aesthetic of virtually every period and composer. Apart from the modern piano, he also takes an avid interest in researching fortepiano technique, in relation to which he launched a regularly recurring fortepiano series in Tokyo in July 2022.
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