Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Concerts
November 21 2026
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For supporting groups
Saturday, November 21, 2026
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Satoshi Yoneda
Piano/Tomoki Sakata *
Tomoki Sakata / New Commission [World Premiere]
Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 "Emperor"*
R. Strauss / Symphonic Poem "Don Juan" Op. 20 TrV 156
R. Strauss / Suite from the opera "Der Rosenkavalier", Op. 59, TrV 227
December 3 2026
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Thursday, December 3, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Starts 14:00
Shoken Gakuen Maebashi Hall Large Hall
Conductor: Kenichiro Kobayashi (Gunkyo Conductor Laureate)
Violin/Ryosuke Suo *
Glinka / Overture to the opera "Ruslan and Ludmila"
Sarasate/Zigeunerweisen *
Saint-Saëns / Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso *
Beethoven / Symphony No. 5 "Fate"
December 19 2026
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Saturday, December 19, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor and narrator: Tatsuya Shimono
Chorus (female choir) / Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Holst/Suite "The Planets"
Walton / Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
January 16 2027
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Saturday, January 16, 2027
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Daichi Deguchi
Piano: Jaden Aydzik-Zurko *
Akira Ifukube / Japanese Suite for Strings
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 *
Stravinsky / Complete Ballet "The Firebird" (1910 edition)
February 7 2027
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Sunday, February 7, 2027
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka
Piano/Makoto Ozone*
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2*
Bernstein/Age of Anxiety*
February 20 2027
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Saturday, February 20, 2027
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Keitaro Harada
piano/Kate Liu *
Yasushi Akutagawa / Lullabies from the Akita Region for Violin and Orchestra
Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 *
Shostakovich / Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
February 26 2027
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Friday, February 26, 2027
Doors open 18:30 Starts 19:00
Takasaki City Theatre Concert Hall
Violin/Miwako Hara
Violin/Shiho Tsutsui
Viola / Miyoko Ikeda (Principal)
Cello/Tsuneaki Matsumoto
Guest Rakugo performer: Tsuruko Hayashiya
Rakugo story "Okiku's Plate"
Takashi Yoshimatsu / Atom Hearts Club Quartet
Rakugo story "Konya Takao"
Dvořák / From "Cypresses" for String Quartet
Other
March 13 2027
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Saturday, March 13, 2027
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Cillian Farrell
Piano: Tomoki Kitamura *
Performed by members of the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15*
Rachmaninoff / Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27