Festa Summer MUZA KAWASAKI 2025
Summer Muza at Shin-Yurigaoka
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Born in Maastricht. Hubert Soudant conducts the most prestigious European orchestras such as, Berliner Philharmoniker, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt Rundfunk Orchestra, Dresdner Staatskapelle, K.B.S. Symphony Orchestra of Seoul, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Madrid, National Orchestra of Paris and the great part of the Italian orchestras, like Orchestra of Scala Milan, Santa Cecilia in Rome and many others. As an opera conductor he conducted operas at de la Bastille, Salzburg Festival and at all Italian opera houses like Parma, Catania, Palermo, Trieste and Bologna. Since September 2014, he is the Conductor Laureate of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in Japan, with which won “Best Concert Performance by Japanese Artist” at the 21st Music Pen Club Japan Awards. He recorded several CD's with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra; Beethoven's 9th symphony, Bruckner's 8th Symphony, Mozart's Symphonies and Schubert Symphonies on the TSO label.

Miki Yamagata was born in 2002 in Kamakura, Japan. She won First Prize in the Piano Division of the 89th Music Competition of Japan and was a finalist in the Special Grade of the 44th PTNA Piano Competition. She also won both the Youth Piano Division and the Piano Division of the Kanagawa Music Competition in the same year.

She was selected as a 7th-term Munetsugu Tokichi Special Scholarship recipient at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2022, she participated as an artist in Chanel Pygmalion Days. She has also been awarded scholarships from the Rohm Music Foundation (2022, 2023) and the Aoyama Music Foundation (2023).

She has performed with orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra.

After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, she enrolled in the 2nd Cycle Piano Program at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP). She has studied under Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Fernando Rossano, Seizo Azuma, and Yukiko Hibiya.

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.