Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival -Special Concert- Saito Kinen Orchestra Brass Ensemble tickets for Tokyo performance (Jan 18 (Wed)), Hiroshima performance (Jan 21 (Sat)) and Mito performance (Jan 22 (Sun)) are sold out.
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Ticket windows for Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival - Special Concert - Saito Kinen Orchestra Brass Ensemble Tokyo and Matsumoto performance will close during the year-end and New Year holidays. Please see below for further information.
【Tokyo Performance／Close】
●Kioi Hall Ticket Center: Dec 29 (Thu) - Jan 3 (Tue) , Sundays and holidays
【Tel】03-3237-0061（10:00-18:00)
【Matsumoto Performance／Window Close】
〇Kissei Bunka Hall : Dec 27 (Tue) - Jan 3 (Tue), Jan 10 (Tue) - 12 (Thu), Jan 17 (Tue)
〇Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre: Dec 29 (Thu) - Jan 3 (Tue), Jan 10 (Tue)
〇The Harmony Hall：Dec 26 (Mon), Dec 28 (Wed) - Jan 3 (Tue), Jan 10 (Tue), Jan 16 (Mon)
Ticket sales are avaialbe on internet.
●Lawson Ticket（Tickts for Tokyo performance are sold out)
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●Kioi Hall Web Ticket (Tokyo performance only)
The 54th Record Academy Awards founded by music magazine publishing company Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp. has selected the CD recording of 2011SKF Opera Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle for its Best Record Award. The CD features the recording of two opera performances which were conducted by Seiji Ozawa in summer of 2011. Mattias Goerne, internationally acclaimed baritone who lastly visited us in Matsumoto in 2015, plays the main role Bluebeard.
The Record Academy Awards was founded in 1963, to recognize the most siginificant CDs for its achievement and honor record companies amoung various categories. For more on the Record Academy Awards, please refer to "Record Geijutsu" January, 2017 Issue (on sale Dec 20 (Tue)). For further information on the awarded CD recording, please visit the UNIVERSAL MUSIC official website.
We are happy to announce that the Saito Kinen Orchestra Brass Ensemble will go on Japan Tour in 2017. The world top class brass and timpani & percussion musicians come together to perform in Tokyo, Matsumoto, Hiroshima and Mito!
The Brass Ensemble at the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (OMF) Chamber Concert in 2015 received great accolades for its majestic and glorious sound; the audience was captivated and insisted on multiple curtain calls with unceasing thunderous applause. Members are from the brass and timpani & percussion sections of the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which comprises top-tier musicians from around the world who are immensely trusted by Seiji Ozawa. The eager requests for a reprise by the audience that witnessed the passionate performance of the Chamber Concert in 2015 and the desire of members to perform have resulted in initiation of the Saito Kinen Orchestra Brass Ensemble as of January 2017. In pursuit of the ultimate in brass ensemble performance and desire to spread recognition of the OMF name throughout the country, the Brass Ensemble will burst out of summer in Matsumoto to hold concerts in various cities in Japan.
Simply put, the members of this brass ensemble are amazing. They are my treasured Saito Kinen colleagues who gather at the Matsumoto festival every summer and are truly brilliant players.
Their first concert performance in Matsumoto in the summer of 2015 was a resounding success that served as a catalyst to this tour.
I am deeply delighted that their marvelous music will be delivered to audiences all around Japan and greatly look forward to this personally as well. I invite you to join us in listening to their music.
2016 Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival Orchestra Concert Program A will be broadcast this Sunday midnight on NHK BS Premium. Before the program, 2015OMF Celebrating Seiji at 80! Concert will be re-aired.
This year’s Outdoor Screen Concert in Tokyo will take place tomorrow on Sep 13 (Tue) at Roppongi Hills Arena.
The concert will start at 17:30h first by screening of the digest footage of 2016OMF official programs. Following this, the screen concert will continue by showing of the Orchestra Concert Program A which took place on Aug 22 at Kissei Bunka Hall in Matsumoto. In this concert Saito Kinen Orchestra performed Honegger: Symphony No.3 under the baton of Fabio Luisi and Beethoven: Symphony No.7 under the baton by Seiji Ozawa.
Entry to the screen concert is free of charge. We look forward to seeing you at Roppongi tomorrow!
Today on Sep 9 (Fri) at 8:15 pm (Japan time), the final performance of OMF Opera by Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges held at Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre has finished closing the 33 days-long 2016 Season of OMF.
2016OMF opened with OMF Chamber Study Group - Brass Ensemble - Recital on Aug 9 (Tue). An audience of 14,128 people paid visit to 10 official programs of the festival. Despite the changable weather condition and numbers of typhoons that hit Japan during the festival period, many came to visit us from far places even such as those of southern Japan. We sincerely thank all the audience who has decided to spend this summer with us. Our extending thanks also go to all the volunteer staff for their dedication and tremendous support all throughout the festival.
We thank you all once again and sincerely look forward to seeing you in Matsumoto next year, too!
On Aug 29 (Mon), Saito Kinen Orchestra members performed in places such as hospitals, homes for elderly and institutions for disabled. “Demae” is the Japanese word for meal delivery – these concerts are designed to deliver the joy of the music to those music lovers who are otherwise unable to attend the concerts. Thank you all for coming to the concerts.
Cozy Concert ＠Institutun for disabled Moo
Special Demae Concert ＠Iida Municipal Hospital
【Saito Kinen Orchestra Members】
Vaiolin： Sayaka Kinoshiro, Mai Tategami
Viola：Masahiro Chihara
Cello：Ichiro Hasebe
Cozy Concert ＠Ryoiku Center Mirai
Special Demae Concert @JA Nagano Koseiren Shinonoi General Hospital
【Saito Kinen Orchestra Members】
Vaiolin: Kagesawa Keiko, Asuka Yano
Viola: Kasumi Matsuyama
Cello: Rei Tsujimoto
Shibafu Concert ＠Kissei Bunka Hall Garden
【Saito Kinen Orchestra Members】
Horn: Maro Abe, Yasushi Katsumata, Koharu Tajima, Asako Yamamoto
2016OMF Open Event Parade / Join Performance will take place on Aug 21 (Sat) in Matsumoto City. The traffic will be regulated during the Parade time. Please see the Traffic Regulations map below for details.
Aug 21 (Sat) 2016OMF Open Event Parade / Joint Performance
【Street Performance】
9:10～ Matsumoto Station Plaza
（Chikumano Junior High School Brass Band/Matsumoto City Marching Band/Matsumoto Mothers Ensemble Apple/THE BANDA）
【Parade】
9:30～ In front of M WING～Matsumoto Catle Park（Total 53 groups）
【Joint Performance】
11:00～ Matsumoto Castle Honmaru Garden National Treasure
Program：Radetzky-marsch, Anthem of Nagano Prefecture ”Shinano No Kuni”
Conductor：Kyosuke Matsushita
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the 2016OMF Season CD concert unfortunately has had to be cancelled.
The OMF Office sincerely apologizes for this sudden change and the inconvenience caused.