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〜Duo recital of soprano and harpsichord
2025/05/31(sa.) 14:00 Starting
Program Part1] 17th - mid 18th century
The harpsichord was born and was played all over Europe. We will take up works by composers from different countries who happened to be active in the same period, and recall the era of the harpsichord.
Program Part2] 19th Century - Mid 20th Century
This is the period when the piano was fully developed after the decline of the harpsichord. We will try to bring out the different essence of the music composed for the piano by playing it on the harpsichord.
Profile of performers
Mari Iwamoto (soprano)
Graduated from the National University of Music, Tokyo, and completed graduate studies at the same university. She completed the professional course at the Nikikai Opera Training Institute.
She has appeared as soloist in Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Creation, Fauré's Requiem, Mozart's C minor Mass and Litania, Bach's B minor Mass, and in Blondet's Escape from the Palace. At the New National Theatre, she appeared as the Flower Girl in The Marriage of Figaro, the mendicant nun in Angelica, the first cousin in Turandot, the first cousin in Mtsensk County Macbeth, the first cousin in Shadowless Famous Families, the hatmaker in The Horseman, Juliette in The City of Death, and covers the female flowers in Parsifal. She is a member of the Nikikai. She is a member of the New National Theatre Chorus.
Akiko Yoshihara (harpsichord)
After graduating from the piano department at Senkoku Gakuen Junior College, she transferred to Musashino Music College in the third year and completed her studies. She has performed in various selected concerts. After working as a piano instructor at Miyaji Gakki Music School, she has been leading "Akiko Piano Lesson". She continues to perform solo, chamber music, orchestral accompaniment, and harpsichord in Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Nagano Prefectures,
(As the president of Yoshi Mirai Kikaku Co.
Ltd. as the president of Yoshi Mirai Kikaku, Inc. and manages rental studios and lodging facilities. He has a Youtube channel and an instagram page.
He also posts a series of "Familiar Masterpieces on Harpsichord" with easy-to-understand explanations on his Youtube channel and on Instagram.
with easy-to-understand explanations on his Youtube channel and instagram.
His channel has over 650 subscribers.
Program
Performer
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Mari Iwamoto
soprano
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Akiko Yoshihara
cembalo
Admission and ticket purchase
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Admission fee
All seats 4,000 yen (with tea) (first 50 people)
Contact
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Email
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Phone number
Matsumoto Memorial Music Guest House 090-8497-0129