Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts test
February 1 2026
Planned number of tickets sold out
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri
Carmen/Hiroka Yamashita
Don Jose / Christopher Sokolowski
Escamillo/Takaoki Onishi
Michaela/Eri Nakamura
Zuniga/Hidekazu Tsumaya
Morales/Kari Toru
Dancairo/Takashi Tomokiyo
Remendado/Tokiyuki Sawatake
Frasquita / Airi Sunada
Mercedes/Asami Fujii
Chorus: GT Symphonic Concert Professional Singers (chorus director: Dai Kishimoto)
Children's Choir/GT Symphonic Concert "Carmen" Children's Choir
Stage composition/Aguni Jun
Bizet / Opera "Carmen" (Concert format, 3 acts, performed in the original language, with Japanese subtitles)
February 10 2026
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Doors open: 9:30 Show start: 10:30
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Ryuichiro Sonoda
Mezzo-soprano/Michiko Hayashi *
Mozart / Overture to the opera "The Marriage of Figaro"
Mozart / "What is love like?" from the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" *
Bizet / Prelude "Habanera" from the opera "Carmen" *
Ponchielli / "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda"
Siečinski/Vienna, the city of my dreams *
Lehar / Gold and Silver
February 15 2026
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Sunday, February 15, 2026
Doors open 15:00 Starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Francesco Angelico
Piano: Till Fellner *
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 *
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
March 7 2026
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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
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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
Mozart / No. 2 from 5 Divertimento K.439b (Anh.229)
Meyerbeer/Shepherd's Song
Lahana / A Woman's Love and Life
Berg / Four Pieces, Op. 5
Mahler / Symphony No. 4, 4th movement "Life in Heaven"
Koch / Songs of Istanbul [Japan Premiere]
Kreutzer/ Waterwheel
Widmann/Fantasy
Schubert / Shepherd on the Rock D.965
March 22 2026
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Sunday, March 22, 2026
Doors open 14:00 Starts 15:00
Shoken Gakuen Maebashi Hall Large Hall
Conductor: Pietari Inkinen
Sibelius / Symphonic Poem "Forest Spirits" Op. 45-1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Beethoven/Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
April 18 2026
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Saturday, April 18, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Keita Matsui
Vocals: Yokoyama Daisuke
Chorus/Gunma University Cooperative Education Faculty Junior High School Music Club
Produced by Saito Neko
Give me wings
Let us walk towards the top
Song of Life
Songs of the Four Seasons and more
June 6 2026
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Saturday, June 6, 2026
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri
Tosca / Yasuko Sato
Cavaradossi/Stefan Popp
Scarpia/Ue Hayato
Angelotti/Hidekazu Tsumaya
Spoletta/Tokuyuki Sawatake
Charlone/Ichikawa Toshimasa
Domori/Masahiko Haru
Prison Guard/Masahi Takahashi
Shepherd/Haruka Shibano*
Chorus / GT Symphonic Concert Professional Singers (Choir Conductor: Dai Kishimoto)*
Children's Choir/Fujioka City Ono Elementary School Choir Club
Stage composition/Aguni Jun
Puccini / Opera "Tosca" in 3 acts, performed in the original language (with Japanese subtitles)
August 1 2026
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Saturday, August 1, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Satoshi Yoneda
Tracklist currently being adjusted
September 19 2026
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Saturday, September 19, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Soloist/Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Horn/Stephan Dohr
Flute/Karl-Heinz Schütz
Oboe/Jonathan Kelly
Clarinet/Gerald Pachinger
Bassoon/Richard Galler
Tracklist currently being adjusted