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SIJ Concert is back this year! As we mark the 9th year of Summer in JAPAN, Sumire is welcoming two tango musicians who she met in Vermont, US in 2018. Yukie Kawanami, the winner of the 1st Che Bandoneon International Competition, and Moeri Kobayashi, who learned tango piano from Pablo Ziegler, one of the leading tango pianists from Argentina will be joined by SIJ Co-Founder, Sumire Hirotsuru on violin. Enjoy the evening of tango in this Piazzolla’s 100th anniversary year! Program ・Michelangelo ’70 ・Verano Porteno ・Adios Nonino ・Libertango – by Astor Piazzolla ・Redencion ・Solfeando – by Alfredo Gobbi ・Fetiche – by Julián Peralta …and more!

Summer in JAPAN Classical Concert goes online this year! SIJ co-founder Sumire Hirotsuru will be performing her first-ever online concert, welcoming two musicians based in her hometown Oita – Hideki Goto on piano & Jumpei Niimi on baritone. The music selection includes her favorite solo violin repertoire, solo baritone classics, Japanese tunes and some violin-piano-baritone trio arrangements which are rarely put together. Get your tickets now and watch the show on a favorite couch with your favorite drink, from anywhere in the world!

Program: Syncopation シンコペーション / Fritz Kreisler Die Forelle 鱒 / Franz Peter Schubert Musica proibita 禁じられた音楽 / Stanislao Gastaldon Oblivion 忘却 / Astor Piazzolla Romanian Folk Dances ルーマニア民俗舞曲 / Béla Bartók 落葉松 (Larch) / 小林秀雄作曲・野上彰作詞 待ちぼうけ (Waiting in the Vain) / 山田耕筰作曲・北原白秋作詞 Meditation from Thais タイスの瞑想曲 / Jules Massenet Csárdás チャルダッシュ / Vittorio Monti いのちの歌 (Song of Life) / 村松崇継作曲・Miyabi作詞 Granada グラナダ / Agustin Lara

Runtime: 45 minutes

Program

String Quartet No. 30 in E-flat, Op. 33 No. 2, “The Joke” 4th movement / F. Haydn
The Ansonia Quartet: Sumire Hirotsuru, Byungchan Lee, Meagan Turner, Isabel Kwon

Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E-major BWV. 1006 3rd movement / J.S. Bach
Woody Wang

Capriccio for Unaccompanied Clarinet in A / Heinrich Sutermeister
Eric Zhou

Quintet in A major for Clarinet and Strings K. 581 4th movement / W.A. Mozart
Eric Zhou, Woody Wang, Ellen Roper, Byungchan Lee, Meagan Turner

Smells like Teen Spirit –– Nirvana / arr. Two Cellos
Isabel Kwon, Ellen Roper

String Quartet No. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden” 1st and 4th movement / F. Schubert
The Ansonia Quartet

INTERMISSION

Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, “Zigeunertrio” 1st movement / F. Haydn
Eiko Nagano, Ellen Roper, Woody Wang

Zigeunerweisen / P. Sarasate
Sumire Hirotsuru, Eiko Nagano

“Primavera Portena” from the Four Seasons / A. Piazzolla
Sumire Hirotsuru, Isabel Kwon, Eiko Nagano

Quintet in A major for Piano and Strings, Op. 81 4th movement / A. Dvorak
The Ansonia Quartet, Eiko Nagano

The fourth Summer in JAPAN Music Concert, one of the main events during SIJ 2016 featuring a diversity of music and theater works selected from all over the world！

The third Summer in Japan Music Concert, one of the main events during SIJ 2015 had a wide variety of music and theater works selected from all over the world.

Program

1. Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56 / Béla Bartók
2. Sonata No.3 for alto saxophone solo, selected movements / George Frideric Handel
3. “Fugue” for piano solo (Japan premiere) / Maxwell Phillips
4. Waltz-Scherzo Op.34 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Piano Quintet Op.44, 1st movement / Robert Schumann
6. 6 Little Pieces Op.19 / Arnold choenberg
7. Blackbird / Lennon-McCartney
8. Houdini / Foster The People
9. Monologue from Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
10. Oblivion, Escualo / Astor Piazzolla

Encore

1. Do-Re-Mi / from “The Sound of Music”
2. Csárdás / Vittorio Monti

The Second Summer in JAPAN Classical Music Concert is one of the main events during SIJ 2014 ‒ four violins, one clarinet, one trumpet, one vocalist and a lot more.

Program

1. Salut d’Amour / Edward Elgar
2. Intrada / Otto Ketting
3. Nocturne & Waltz from Masquerade / Aram Khachaturian
4. Adagio from Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 / J.S. Bach
5. Navarra / Pablo de Sarasate
6. Spring and Summer from The Four Seasons / Antonio Vivaldi
7. Meadowlark from The Baker’s Wife / Stephen Schwartz
8. Summertime from Porgy and Bess / George Gershwin
9. Adios Nonino, Libertango / Ástor Piazzolla

Sumire Hirotsuru, a violinist from Oita and the winner of an international music competition; Carl Rogers, a member of the Harvard-Radclie Orchestra, the oldest symphony orchestra in the U.S.; and Jason Lee, who studies molecular biology and the piano, perform classical music. Self-expression through art, as well as studying, will be conveyed to children.

Program

1. Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1 / Chopin (1810-1849)
2. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, I. Allegro non troppo / Brahms (1833-1897)
3. Melodie / Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
4. Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043 / J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
5. Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice / Kreisler (1875-1962)
6. Eight Concert Etudes, Op.40, No. 1 “Prelude” in C Major / Nikolai Kapustin (1937- )
7. Zigeunerweisen / Sarasate (1844-1908)