Festa Summer MUZA KAWASAKI 2025
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Finale Concert14:20-

Keitaro Harada is named Music and Artistic Director Designate for Dayton Philharmonic for the 2024-25 season, Harada will begin a five-year tenure as Music and Artistic Director with the 2025-26 season. As Music Director of the Savannah Philharmonic since the 2020-21 season, Harada has transformed the orchestra and energized its audiences throughout the community with his imaginative programs and charismatic presence. In 2024, Harada became Permanent Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He has forged a close connection with the NHK Symphony Orchestra with whom he appears frequently and has recorded three albums. Also in 2024, Harada became Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Partner for the Aichi Chamber Orchestra. His eclectic musical scope ranges from symphony, opera, and chamber music to pops, film scores, educational outreach, and multidisciplinary projects, all of which enrich his programming.

Born in 1999, she performed with an orchestra at the age of 8. Since the age of 10, she has won first and grand prizes in various international competitions. Starting with recitals in Italy, she has performed with renowned conductors and orchestras at home and abroad. Toured Switzerland and Italy with Vladimir Ashkenazy. In 2021 she performed with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, and the following year with the Deutsche Kammerphil, also to great acclaim. Since 2022, she has been developing her own concert series 'STORIA'.

The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, together with music director Jonathan Nott, has been attracting attention as a leader in the Japanese orchestra world.《Elektra in Concert Style(2023)》won the 1st prize in the “Top 10 Concert 2023” following the 2nd prize of《Salome in Concert Style(2022)》on Ongaku no Tomo magazine as well as the Best Recording of Music Pen club Japan Award for Opera & Orchestra category and Tokyo Symphony Chorus, Orchestra's amateur chorus also won the prize for Chamber & Chorus category.

Highlights of past seasons with Mo. Nott include Symphony 9 by Beethoven filmed by 45 cameras, the largest record of the orchestra history live-streamed nationwide, Gurre-Lieder by Schoenberg celebrating 15th Anniversary of Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, TSO's home and Mozart's Da Ponte Operas in concert style. In March 2020, the live-streamed concert without audience on nico-nico Live Channel which attracted more than 200,000 viewers nationwide, has been a mega-hit in Japan.

Outside of Japan, the orchestra has performed 80 concerts in 58 cities since 1976. The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1946 as Toho Symphony Orchestra, and changed its name to Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in April 1951, and has a reputation for giving first performances of a number of contemporary music and opera, and has been regularly performing various operas and ballets at the New National Opera Theatre, Tokyo since its opening in 1997.