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C×C Composer's Journey to Visit Composers vol.6

Kenji Sakai & Claude Debussy

2024/05/11(Sa.) 15:00 Starting

Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Small HallKanagawa

Official https://www.kanagawa-kenminhall.com/d/cxc06

The sixth in a series of chamber music concerts focusing on two composers, one from the present and one from the past!
Launched in 2021, "C x C (C x C)" is a concert series that connects the past, present, and future by bringing up-and-coming composers face to face with the great composers of the past.

This time, Vol. 6 will feature 《Kenji Sakai x Claude Debussy》.
 Kenji Sakai is an award-winning composer who has been active in the field of music composition both in Japan and abroad.

 Claude Debussy, a composer whose unique and nontraditional musical scales and harmonic schemes have had a profound influence on later generations.

 Enjoy a fresh performance of Sakai's latest work, which he studied in France, paired with Debussy's masterpiece, performed by leading stars of the Japanese music world.

Pre-concert talk by Kenji Sakai and Yuji Numano (musicologist) will be held from 14:40.
This concert is a Suntory Art Foundation Saji Keizo Prize Recommended Concert.

Program

Claude Debussy.
Prelude to the Pastoral Afternoon (1894/2014/Japanese Premiere of Paolo Fradiani's arrangement)
From 12 Exercises for Piano (1915)
No. 10 "For Contrastive Sounds
No. 6 "for 8 fingers
No. 11, "For Combined Arpeggios" (1916)
No. 12 "In Black and White" (1915)

Kenji Sakai
●"Ritornello in Blue" (2018)
●"From Exercises for Piano" (2011-)
1. Groove
2.Echoes
3.Scanning Beethoven
4. Harmony
Infinite Staircase
Sonnet for Lek & Sowat
Like the Evening Music
Toccata
Dance of Death
In Blue and White (commissioned by Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, premiere performance)
New work (commissioned by Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, premiere)

Performer

  • Ryo Moriwaki

    Conductor

  • Kenji Sakai

    (editorial) supervision

  • Yue Ueno

    flute

  • Ami Kaneko

    oboe

  • Taira Kaneko

    clarinet

  • Tetsuya Cho

    bassoon

  • Nobuyo Fukukawa

    horn

  • Mai Fukui

    harp

  • Yurie Miura

    piano

  • Shoichiro Tanaka

    piano

  • Ami Oike

    violin

  • Nobuhiro Suyama

    violin

  • Mikuni Rachel Yui

    viola

  • Kei Yamazawa

    cello

  • Miku Nagasaka

    contrabass

Admission and ticket purchase

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