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2012/05/17 | NEWS

The 2012 Suntory portrait of Dai Fujikura


The Suntory Foundation for the Arts founded its Music Division in 1969 to promote the cause of western-style contemporary music in Japan. It has become customary for the Foundation to host an annual orchestral portrait in Suntory Hall featuring the music of one of Japan's most established senior composers.


In October 2012 the series (curated by Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Shingo Torii) breaks with precedent to showcase the music of a young composer - the youngest ever to feature in this series of orchestral portraits.
Dai Fujikura lives in the UK and is in receipt of his second BBC Proms commission this year.
He has not only won several international composition awards, but is busy writing commissions and co-commissions from orchestras and performers throughout the world.
This concert is evidence of the esteem in which he is held in the country of his birth.


The concert will be conducted by Tatsuya Shimono, will feature no less than two soloists, Pascal Gallois and Noriko Ogawa and includes the world premiere of a commission from the Suntory Foundation for the Arts of a bassoon concerto.


Fujikura's first piano concerto, Ampere was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra and premiered by them with Noriko Ogawa as soloist in London. Pascal Gallois, for whom Fujikura is writing a new concerto for bassoon, has had works written specially for him by some of the world's greatest composers including Boulez, Kurt叩g, Stockhausen and Rihm and collaborated with the late Luciano Berio (who wrote the iconic Sequenza XII for him)on the definitive book about bassoon extended techniques.


Fujikura's Tocar y Luchar, written for Dudamel and the Sim坦n Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, will receive its UK premiere at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra a month after this portraitconcert on November 24th 2012.


October 11th 2012 Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan
- Orchestral Portrait Concert of Dai Fujikura -

"Tocar y Luchar" for Orchestra

Bassoon CONCERTO (world premiere)

"Mirrors" for 12 celli (world premiere of 12 celli version)

"AMPERE" - concerto for Piano and Orchestra

"ATOM" for Orchestra

performed by Pascal Gallois (bassoon),
Noriko Ogawa (piano),
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
conductor: Tatsuya Shimono


For further information and audio excerpts of Dai Fujikura's music, please visit
www.daifujikura.com


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