Chamber music concert opens Japan-Philippines Friendship Contemporary Music Festival

Pianist Ayumi Hirahara

February 8, 2013, 7:30 PM

Philam Life Auditorium

UN Avenue, Manila

Featuring:

Ayumi Hirahara, piano

Hiroshi Shibayama, oboe

String Quartet I
     Takashi Hamano, violin

     Naoru Komiya, violin

     Go Tomono, viola

     Ken’ichi Nishiyama, cello

PPO Wind Quartet
     Rosemarie Poblete, flute

     Ariel Sta. Ana, clarinet

     Jose Jerry Samonte, bassoon

     Ernani Pascual, horn

PPO String Quartet
     Dino Decena, violin

     Joanna Ruth Livioco, violin

     Joy Allan de la Cruz, viola

     Herrick Ortiz, cello

Programme:

Francisco Santiago Nocturne in E flat minor

Maki Ishii North-Silver-Night, Op. 93 Winter

Francisco Buencamino Maligayang Bati

Yasushi Akutagawa La Dance: Suite for Piano

Hal Goodman Woodwind Boogie

Astor Piazzolla Violetango

Toru Takemitsu Entre-Temps for Oboe and String quartet

Tadashi Kubo String Quartet Elegy

Manuel Maramba New Work for String Quartet

In celebration of the Japan-Philippines Friendship Contemporary Music Festival and the 40^th year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, the Orchestra Nipponica Tokyo will hold two concerts here in Manila with the first happening on February 8, 2013, 7:30 PM at the Philam Life Auditorium.

Violinist Takashi Hamano

Solo piano pieces and chamber music highlight the first concert that feature Japanese musicians like pianist Ayumi Hirahara, oboist Hiroshi Shibayama and a string quartet composed of violinists Takashi Hamano and Naoru Komiya, violist Go Tomono and cellist Ken’ichi Nishiyama. Several members of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra participating in the concert include the PPO Woodwind Quartet composed of flutist Rosemarie Poblete, clarinetist Ariel Sta. Ana, bassoonist Jose Jerry Samonte  and horn player Ernani Pascual. Also included in the concert is the PPO String Quartet composed of violinists Dino Decena and Joanna Ruth Livioco, violist Joy Allan de La Cruz, and cellist Herrick Ortiz.

Violinist Naoru Komiya

Pieces to be performed in this evening are Francisco Santiago’s Nocturne in E flat minor, Mak Ishii’s North-Silver-Night, Op. 93 Winter, Francisco Buencamino’s Maligayang Bati, and Yasushi Akutagawa’s La Dance: Suite for Piano for the solo piano. Woodwind Boogie by Hal Goodman, Violetango by Astor Piazzola, Entre-Temps for oboe and strings by Toru Takemitsu, String Quartet Elegy by Tadashi Kubo and String Quartet by Manuel P. Maramba will be performed by the string and woodwind quartets. If I’m not mistaken, the String Quartet pieces by Kubo and Maramba will be having their world premiere performance during this concert.

Violist Go Tomono

The Orchestra Nipponica Tokyo concert event is endorsed by the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines, the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Japan, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines, the Japanese Association Manila, Inc., the Daily Manila Shimbun and South Japan Broadcasting (Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan).

Cellist Ken'ichi Nishiyama

Ticket prices:

P1000 Loge Center

P800 Loge Side

P500 Orchestra Center

For inquiries:

CCP Box Office 832-3704, 832-3706

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