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Ryoko Aoki / HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19 vol.4, For Netherlands

Photo : Renske Vrolijk / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Date: 11:00-11:30 (CET) on 7 December (Mon.) 2020
Venue: The Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Japan, Tokyo / Recital Hall, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

URL：https://youtu.be/EDqKapGVgSQ
Admission free *Donation is accepted on Peatix and PayPal
Peatix: https://honohfornetherlands.peatix.com/
PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/nohvoicemusic

Noriko Baba “hagomoro suite”
・Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice, Tokyo)
・The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra members, Amsterdam
Junko Naito (violin) Sylvia Huang (violin) Saeko Oguma (viola) Fred Edelen (violoncello)
・Noriko Baba (Composition, Rome)

Technical direction / live streaming: LUFTZUG
supported by Minato City in Tokyo, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts GBFund
in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Japan and AMATI

Noh singer Ms. Ryoko Aoki has conducted a series of projects “HO NOH – Pray for an end to the Covid-19” since May 2020. Through the projects, collaborative performances with European artists have been held online and streamed on YouTube.
In the vol.4 “For Netherlands”, Ms. Aoki will deliver a dedicatory performance of “hagomoro suite” by Ms. Noriko Baba with members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (the Netherlands), one of the three leading orchestras in the world. The musical piece was performed by Ms. Aoki and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam in February 2018, and got favorable reviews.

Profile on Meet Up ECoC!: https://eu-japanfest.org/meet-up/artist/profile/460

Website: https://ryokoaoki.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryoooaoki
Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryoooaoki
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RyokoAoki

 

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Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
Tokyo Festival TMT Autumn Selection Special Edition
“Artistic Directors’ International Online Meetings”

Videos are available until: at 17:00 (JST) on 7 December 2020 on Geigeki Channnel（YouTube）
<Session1>
https://youtu.be/KfGpJdj5cV4
<Session2>
https://youtu.be/dm7phVfQwaA

The International Online Meeting of Artistic Directors” from Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre is now available on Geigeki Channel on YouTube! For a limited time only, they are offering two online meeting sessions with the artistic directors who were scheduled to work with them this year through Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre/Tokyo Arts Festival 2020 and with other international artistic directors who have worked together for a long time. The artistic director of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Mr. Constantin Chiriac presented on Session2 and Mr. Silviu Purcărete, who directed “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre this year, also contributed a video message. Please check it out!

★Message from Artist★
World leading artistic directors get together online and discuss the present and the future of performing art. Host panelist from Japan, Hideki Noda(TMT Artistic Director).
SESSION 1; Theatre artists about our times Didier Deschamps (Théâtre National de Chaillot) Thomas Ostermeier(Schaubühne) Ivo Van Hove(Internationaal Theater Amsterdam)
SESSION 2; The present and the future of Art Festivals Constantin Chiriac(Sibiu International Festival) Yi-Ruu Liu(National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei) +video message from Silviu Purcarete, Robert Lepage etc.

Website: https://www.geigeki.jp/ch/ch1/tmt2020_onlinemeeting.html
Profile on Meet Up ECoC!: https://eu-japanfest.org/meet-up/artist/profile/404

 

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San-in Boys and Girls Choir Little Phoenix
“San-in Boys and Girls Choir Little Phoenix the 15th Regular Concert”
“Story of Teiichi Okano　Beyond the Home”

Photo: Rosina Pencheva / studio PUNKT

Date&Time: 20 December (Sun) 2020, 14:00 (JST) Start /13:00(JST)
Venue: Yonago Public Hall (Yonago, Tottori)

【Live Streaming on YouTube（BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI）】
URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimpTjho1GEYgWgXgvFoSVQ

San-in Boys and Girls Choir Little Phoenix that participated in the International Youth Concert at the European Capital of Culture Plovdiv 2019 (Bulgaria) last year, will perform in the TOTTORI LIVE YELL project!! On 20 December, they will hold the 15th regular concert at Yonago Public Hall, as the first part of the project. As well as live viewing at several locations in Tottori Prefecture on the day, the concert will also be distributed on YouTube (free of charge). If you can’t make it to the venue, this is your chance to enjoy the show from everywhere! Please check the details and your timezone!

Profile on Meet Up ECoC!: https://eu-japanfest.org/meet-up/artist/profile/480
TOTTORI LIVE YELL project：https://tottori-liveyell.jp/program/yonago/

 

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#MeetECoC 

 

We introduce activities in each ECoC as #MeetECoC on the page of “News” within Meet Up ECoC!
This week, we feature Chemnitz, the city just selected as the European Capital of Culture 2025 in Germany at the end of October.

Click here!: https://eu-japanfest.org/meet-up/news/3388.html