Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts
February 21 2026
Subscription Concert
For supporting groups
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Christian Arming
piano/Eric Lu*
Soprano/Watanabe Hitomi (Sieglinde) **
Tenor/Toshiaki Murakami (Sigmund)**
Bus/Fumihiko Shimura (Funding)**
Performed by Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra
Toshio Hosokawa / "In the Forest" for chamber orchestra
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand*
Wagner / Music drama "Die Walküre" Act 1 (concert form)**
March 7 2026
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Taizo Takemoto
Guide/Satoshi Asaoka
"Fantasia's Masterpieces"
Part 1 (performance only)
Elgar/Pomp and Circumstance No. 1
Mussorgsky / Night on Bald Mountain
Stravinsky: Kaschei - Lullaby - Finale from "The Firebird"
Part 2 (with video)
Beethoven: "First Movement" from Symphony "Pastoral" (arranged by Hajime Kawakami)
Dukas / Symphonic Poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (arranged by Hajime Kawakami and CHIAKi)
Tchaikovsky / Ballet "The Nutcracker" (arranged by Kenji Kozuka)
Ponchielli / "Dance of Time" "Finale" from the opera "La Gioconda" (arranged by Hajime Kawakami)
March 19 2026
Ticket Sales
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Doors open 18:15 Starts 19:00
Takasaki City Theatre Concert Hall
Clarinet/Nishikawa Tomoya (Principal, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Clarinet/Tomoko Tamura (Principal Clarinet, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Clarinet/Yuka Takako (member of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
(Guest) Soprano/Saki Nakae
(Guest) Piano/Tomonori Kitamura
Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock D.965
Other
March 22 2026
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Doors open 14:00 Starts 15:00
Shoken Gakuen Maebashi Hall Large Hall
Conductor: Pietari Inkinen
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Beethoven/Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Other
March 28 2026
Subscription Concert
For supporting groups
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor/Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Violin/Fumino Ito (Gunma Symphony Orchestra Solo Concertmaster)*
Clarinet/Nishikawa Tomoya (Principal Clarinet, Gunma Symphony Orchestra) *
Harp/Kazuko Shinozaki *
Soprano/Kobayashi Sara **
Mezzo-soprano/Yuga Yamashita **
Tenor/Kota Murakami **
Baritone/Uchuu Onishi **
Chorus/Kunitachi College of Music (chorus conductor: Yoshinao Kihara) **
Akira Nishimura / Triple Concerto "Butterfly Dream" for violin, harp, clarinet and orchestra (2023) *
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" **
March 29 2026
Tokyo Subscription concert
For supporting groups
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Doors open 14:00 Performance starts 15:00
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Concert Hall
Conductor/Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Violin/Fumino Ito (Gunma Symphony Orchestra Solo Concertmaster)*
Clarinet/Nishikawa Tomoya (Principal Clarinet, Gunma Symphony Orchestra) *
Harp/Kazuko Shinozaki *
Soprano/Kobayashi Sara **
Mezzo-soprano/Yuga Yamashita **
Tenor/Kota Murakami **
Baritone/Uchuu Onishi **
Chorus/Kunitachi College of Music (chorus conductor: Yoshinao Kihara) **
Akira Nishimura / Triple Concerto "Butterfly Dream" for violin, harp, clarinet and orchestra (2023) *
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" **