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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.

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Marie Chilemme and Yuya Okamoto © Koji Iida | Suntory Hall

Tokyo

Taking Beethoven’s quartets to a new level: Quatuor Ébène in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 12 junio 2026

In the lead-up to the Beethoven anniversary year, the Quatuor Ébène gives a complete Beethoven quartet cycle in Tokyo as part of the annual Suntory Hall Chamber Music Garden festival.

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Taking Beethoven’s quartets to a new level: Quatuor Ébène in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

The NHK Symphony Orchestra explores its history in its centenary

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 24 abril 2026

As part of its centenary celebrations this season, the NHK Symphony Orchestra has curated a Japanese Composer Series with three intriguing concerts, of which this concert is the second.

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The NHK Symphony Orchestra explores its history in its centenary

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Hina Maeda after a performance with the Polish National Radio Symphony © Radosław Kaźmierczak

On a whim: Hina Maeda on winning the Wieniawski Competition

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 23 abril 2026

Five years ago, the Japanese violinist made the spontaneous decision to enter the prestigious Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. She talks about how her win in 2022 was a musically life-changing experience.

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23 abr 2026

On a whim: Hina Maeda on the Wieniawski Competition

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Rare symphonies: Masaaki Suzuki makes a return to Singapore

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 19 marzo 2026

Renowned Japanese conductor returns to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to perform unusual music from Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – an influence on Robert Schumann, who described him as “unique in the world of symphonies”.

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19 mar 2026

Rare symphonies: Masaaki Suzuki returns to Singapore

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Aya Wakizono © Amati Bacciardi Photographers

Pure agilità: Aya Wakizono returns to Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 13 marzo 2026

The Japanese mezzo soprano is returning to the New National Theatre, Tokyo for her role debut in Massenet’s Werther. We talk about her love for Rossini, and expansions into later Romantic opera.

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13 mar 2026

Pure agilità: Aya Wakizono returns to Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

A poignant Rigoletto revival in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 21 febrero 2026

The New National Theatre in Tokyo revives its traditionalist Rigoletto, featuring Vladimir Stoyanov as the cursed court jester, Eri Nakamura as Gilda and Lawrence Brownlee debuting as the Duke of Mantua.

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A poignant Rigoletto revival in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Rustioni conducts orchestral highlights from Verdi and Wagner in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 23 enero 2026

Daniele Rustioni pairs orchestral music of Verdi and Wagner in his concert with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, prior to taking up the post of Guest Principal Conductor in April.

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Rustioni conducts orchestral highlights from Verdi and Wagner in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Full of beans: Richard Jones directs a successful new Wozzeck in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 20 noviembre 2025

Richard Jones directs a new production at Tokyo's New National Theatre which lucidly articulates the structure of Berg’s expressionist music.

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Richard Jones directs a successful new Wozzeck in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Fabio Luisi conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra © NHKSO

Tokyo

Fabio Luisi opens NHKSO's new season with Franz Schmidt's Fourth Symphony

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 13 septiembre 2025

As a leading exponent of Franz Schmidt's music, conductor Fabio Luisi leads the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo in a rare performance of his Fourth Symphony for the orchestra's season opener.

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Luisi opens NHKSO's new season with Franz Schmidt

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Kawasaki

A deeply committed War Requiem from Jonathan Nott and the Tokyo Symphony

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 19 julio 2025

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, Jonathan Nott conducts Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in his final season as Music Director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

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A deeply committed War Requiem by Jonathan Nott and Tokyo Symphony

Por Nahoko Gotoh

The Schumann Quartett © N Ikegami | Suntory Hall

Tokyo

Schumann Quartett undertakes a Beethoven journey at Suntory Hall

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 12 junio 2025

At Suntory Hall's annual chamber music festival, the Schumann Quartett embarks on a marathon of performing all of Beethoven’s string quartets over six concerts.

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Schumann Quartett's Beethoven journey at Suntory Hall

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Kawasaki

Sir András Schiff and Cappella Andrea Barca get to the heart of Bach

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 21 marzo 2025

On their farewell Asian tour, András Schiff and his group Cappella Andrea Barca offer a programme of Bach's keyboard concertos performed in the spirit and style of chamber music.

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Sir András Schiff and Cappella Andrea Barca get to the heart of Bach

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Back-to-back Beethoven from Myung-whun Chung and the Tokyo Philharmonic

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 25 febrero 2025

Beethoven's Triple Concerto has a reputation of being a problematic work, but Myung-Whun Chung and the Tokyo Philharmonic prove otherwise in an emphatic performance.

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Back-to-back Beethoven: Myung-whun Chung and the Tokyo Philharmonic

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Ambronay Festival 2024 © Bertrand Pichène

Sustained efforts: Ambronay’s support for young ensembles

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 14 febrero 2025

Ambronay’s support for young ensembles in Early Music continues with Sustainable EEEMERGING, a new scheme to help groups get on a sure professional footing – and decarbonise too.

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14 feb 2025

Sustained efforts: Ambronay’s support for young ensembles

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Spirited Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 11 diciembre 2024

Isabelle Faust, Giovanni Antonini and the Italian period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico gather again for Mozart's complete Violin Concertos.

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Spirited Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Il Giardino Armonico in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Yannis Kokkos stages Guillaume Tell in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 30 noviembre 2024

For his new staging of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, director Yannis Kokkos avoids specific contemporary references, choosing a setting that transcends the times.

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Yannis Kokkos stages Guillaume Tell in Tokyo

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New Japan Philharmonic at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall © Tokyo International Conducting Competition

Glorious clouds, turbulent emotions: Tokyo International Conducting Competition 2024

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 24 octubre 2024

Kornilios Viktor Michailidis is awarded 1st prize in this year’s competition, which gathered 18 talented young conductors from around the world in the Japanese capital.

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24 oct 2024

Glorious clouds, turbulent emotions: Tokyo Conducting Competition 2024

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Sebastian Weigle © Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra | Photographer: Takashi Fujimoto

Tokyo

Ravishing Tchaikovsky from Weigle and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 03 octubre 2024

The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under their Principal Conductor Sebastian Weigle show top-form in Tchaikovsky before their upcoming European tour.

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Ravishing Tchaikovsky from Weigle and the Yomiuri Nippon SO

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Bellini’s La sonnambula at New National Theatre, Tokyo © Rikimaru Hotta | New National Theatre, Tokyo

Bel canto and beyond: Kazushi Ono on New National Theatre, Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 07 octubre 2024

Kazushi Ono, Artistic Director at Tokyo’s foremost opera house, introduces this year’s bel canto-infused season – and explains his vision for the house’s distinctive Theatergeist.

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07 oct 2024

Bel canto and beyond: Kazushi Ono on New National Theatre, Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Nodoka Okisawa © Michiharu Okubo | 2024OMF

Matsumoto

Nodoka Okisawa leads the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival into a new era

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 11 agosto 2024

At the opening weekend of the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor, Nodoka Okisawa leads the Saito Kinen Orchestra in a programme that pays tribute to the late Maestro.

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Leading the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival into a new era

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Verus String Quartet © Koji Iida | SUNTORY HALL

Tokyo

Beethoven quartet cycle reaches finale at Chamber Music Garden Festival

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 15 junio 2024

At Suntory Hall's annual Chamber Music Garden Festival, the Japanese group Verus String Quartet brings their Beethoven Cycle to a close with Zen-like serenity and restraint.

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Beethoven quartet cycle reaches finale at Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Michaela Selinger and ensemble © Koji Iida | Suntory Hall

Tokyo

A virtuosic Pierrot lunaire at Suntory Hall Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 05 junio 2024

Suntory Hall Chamber Music Garden celebrates Schoenberg's anniversary with a virtuosic and gripping performance of his unique song cycle Pierrot lunaire, featuring Michaela Selinger as the moon-drunk clown.

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A virtuosic Pierrot lunaire at Suntory Hall Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Michieletto's “Camping Così” returns to Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 30 mayo 2024

Damiano Michieletto’s 2011 staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, dubbed the "Camping Così", is one of the most enduring and entertaining productions in NNTT’s repertory.

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Michieletto's “Camping Così” returns to Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

A peerless St John Passion in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 04 febrero 2024

In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Bach's St John Passion, Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan gives a compelling performance of the lesser-known 1725 version of work.

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A peerless St John Passion in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Battistoni and the Tokyo Philharmonic focus on Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 16 noviembre 2023

Andrea Battistoni conducts the Tokyo Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's three Shakespeare-inspired works in a single programme. In between, cellist Haruma Sato excels in the original version of the Rococo Variations.

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Battistoni and the Tokyo Phil do Tchaikovsky and Shakespeare

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler’s Eighth in 2016 © NHKSO

Mighty Mahler in Tokyo: NHK Symphony’s celebratory Eighth Symphony

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 10 noviembre 2023

The NHK Symphony has pioneered Mahler performance in Japan – so it’s fitting that Mahler’s gargantuan Eighth Symphony will mark their 2000th subscription concert in December.

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10 nov 2023

Mighty Mahler in Tokyo: NHK Symphony

Por Nahoko Gotoh

The Bachtrack guide to Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 27 octubre 2023

The world’s largest metropolis boasts more than 20 major classical music venues. This guide provides a run-down of the city’s major venues.

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27 oct 2023

The Bachtrack guide to Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Puccini/Ravel double bill opens the new opera season in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 07 octubre 2023

The 2023–24 season at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, opens with straightforward stagings of an unusual double bill of Suor Angelica and L’Enfant et les sortilèges.

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Puccini/Ravel double bill opens the new opera season in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Joyful Mozart from Ton Koopman and the NHK Symphony

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 21 septiembre 2023

At Suntory Hall, Ton Koopman and the NHK Symphony Orchestra bring elegance and exuberance to an all-Mozart programme including a flute concerto featuring its principal flautist.

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Joyful Mozart from Ton Koopman and the NHK Symphony

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Ton Koopman on the multiple personalities of JS Bach

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 21 septiembre 2023

The doyen of the the early music movement talks about his long association with JS Bach, and how he always tries to show Bach’s many sides in his concerts.

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21 sep 2023

Ton Koopman on the multiple personalities of JS Bach

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Kerem Hasan conducts the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra © Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra | Photographer: Takashi Fujimoto

Tokyo

Kerem Hasan conducts an exhilarating Tchaikovsky Fifth in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 18 junio 2023

Exciting Tchaikovsky from the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, while Leeds winner Eric Lu is the sensitive soloist in Chopin's Second Concerto.

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Kerem Hasan conducts an exhilarating Tchaikovsky Fifth in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Elias String Quartet © Koji Iida | Suntory Hall

Tokyo

Elias String Quartet launches Beethoven cycle at Suntory Hall in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 03 junio 2023

Making their long-awaited debut in Japan, the Elias String Quartet embarks on the complete Beethoven cycle with a contrasting programme of early and late quartets.

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Elias String Quartet launches Beethoven cycle in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Osaka

Quartetto Indaco wins the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 18 mayo 2023

A chamber music competition may not be the most glamorous of music competitions, but the Osaka event has the reputation of picking the talents of the future.

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Osaka

18 may 2023

Quartetto Indaco wins the Osaka Chamber Music Competition

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Shunske Sato and the Tokyo Symphony breathe life into Spohr

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 18 marzo 2023

Violinist Shunske Sato leads the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in an historically informed performance of early 19th-century music, including a spectacular rendering of Louis Spohr's Violin Concerto no. 8 in A minor.

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Shunske Sato and the Tokyo Symphony breathe life into Spohr

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Yunchan Lim makes Tokyo concerto debut

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 24 febrero 2023

Van Cliburn winner Yunchan Lim, in his concerto debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic, shares the stage with Mikhail Pletnev to give a suave performance of Beethoven's “Emperor” Concerto.

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Yunchan Lim makes Tokyo concerto debut

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Paavo Järvi and the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen bring Haydn to Tokyo Opera City

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 08 diciembre 2022

Three Haydn symphonies grace the bill in Järvi's onging project which started in earnest last year in Vienna.

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Järvi and Kammerphilharmonie Bremen bring Haydn to Tokyo Opera City

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra © Naoya Ikegami | Suntory Hall

Tokyo

An Alpine journey for Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 15 noviembre 2022

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony's three-concert residency at Tokyo's Suntory Hall culminates in a brilliantly evocative performance of Strauss' Alpine Symphony.

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An Alpine journey for Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Sincerity over sexiness in Alessandrini's take on Giulio Cesare in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 05 octubre 2022

Laurent Pelly's Night in the Museum production of Giulio Cesare is finally staged at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, after its 2020 pandemic cancellation.

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Sincerity over sexiness in Tokyo's Giulio Cesare

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Fabio Luisi and the NHK SO begin partnership with a Verdi Requiem for our times

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 11 septiembre 2022

For whatever reason Fabio Luisi chose Verdi's Requiem for his inauguration concert with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, it turned out to be an apt and poignant choice.

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Luisi and the NHK SO begin partnership with a Requiem for our times

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

One man and his flute: Pahud's solo journey in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 11 julio 2022

A spellbinding journey as Emmanuel Pahud plays a 70-minute solo programme in a near capacity audience in the 1600-seater concert hall.

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One man and his flute: Pahud's solo journey in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Radek Baborák and friends shine in Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 18 junio 2022

This portrait concert of the well-loved Czech horn player Radek Baborák, devised for Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden, was part solo recital, part ensemble concert.

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Radek Baborák and friends shine in Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Aoi Trio sparkles at Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 08 junio 2022

In the second installment of their seven-year project at Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden, the Aoi Trio display a new level of confidence and bravura in Beethoven, Hosokawa and Franck.

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Aoi Trio sparkles at Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Aesthetic unity shines in bold staging of Orfeo ed Euridice in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 19 mayo 2022

Several notable house debuts, including the renowned director and choreographer Sabuto Teshigawara, enlivened the New National Theatre's first-ever production of Gluck's opera.

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Aesthetic unity shines in bold staging of Orfeo ed Euridice in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Four to watch: Quartet Integra

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 21 abril 2022

We spoke to Quartet Integra about their studies at the Suntory Hall Academy and their ambitions for the future.

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21 abr 2022

Four to watch: Quartet Integra

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Londres

La Resurrezione brings London Handel Festival to an uplifting close

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 18 abril 2022

On Easter Monday, this year's London Handel Festival came to a close with Handel's youthful oratorio La Resurrezione in the suitably Baroque setting of London's St Martin-in-the-Fields.

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La Resurrezione brings London Handel Festival to an uplifting close

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Exquisite playing from Naoko Yoshino in Boieldieu's Harp Concerto

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 11 enero 2022

Italian conductor Gaetano d’Espinosa is currently doing the rounds of Japanese orchestras, standing in for many of his colleagues who are unable to enter due to border closures.

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Exquisite playing from Naoko Yoshino in Boieldieu's Harp Concerto

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting first prize winner José Soares © Min-On

José Soares wins the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 18 octubre 2021

The 23-year-old conductor from Brazil, the youngest of the four finalists, has a natural way with the baton and the ability to draw rich and brilliant sounds with effortless gestures.

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18 oct 2021

José Soares wins the Tokyo Competition for Conducting

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Rising star Aya Wakizono commands the stage in La Cenerentola in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 01 octubre 2021

Jun Aguni’s fast-paced new staging, with brightly coloured sets and costumes by Rome-based Alessandro Ciammarughi, was full of visual delights and fantasy-filled images.

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Rising star Aya Wakizono commands the stage in La Cenerentola

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Tokyo

Joyous Bach from Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 07 agosto 2021

For a year and a half since their European tour was cut short due to the outbreak of the pandemic, Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan have been grounded in Japan, performing domestically despite restrictions.

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Joyous Bach from Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo

Por Nahoko Gotoh

Kawasaki

Kahchun Wong and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra excel at Summer Muza festival

Por Nahoko Gotoh, 26 julio 2021

The Olympics is not the only big event that is taking place around Tokyo this summer. A large-scale festival of classical music, Festa Muza Summer, is currently being held at Muza Kawasaki Concert Hall.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra excels at Summer Muza festival

Por Nahoko Gotoh