Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts
November 7 2025
Other sponsored performances
Friday, November 7, 2025
Doors open: 13:30 Start: 14:00
Gunma Music Center
Conductor: Yuko Tanaka
Soprano/Kana Ogawa *
Mozart / Overture to the Opera "The Magic Flute"
Mozart / "The desire for revenge burns in my heart like hell" from the opera "The Magic Flute"*
Mascagni / Intermezzo from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"
Puccini / "When I Walk Through the Streets" from the opera "La Boheme"*
Offenbach / "The Birds Perched in the Testimony Tree" from the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann"*
Bizet / "Arlesian Woman" Suite Nos. 1 and 2
November 24 2025
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Monday, November 24, 2025
Doors open 14:00 Starts 15:00
Ota Civic Hall
Conductor: Junichi Hirokami
Violin/Takashi Narita *
Beethoven/Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Yuzo Toyama / Violin Concerto No. 1 *
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 "Fate"
November 30 2025
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor/Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Soprano/Sara Kobayashi *
Soprano/Mari Moriya *
Soprano/Misaki Morino *
Mezzo-soprano/Akiko Tomioka *
Mezzo-soprano/Shoko Togo *
Tenor/Naoki Miyazato *
Baritone/Takashi Aoyama*
Bus/Kazunori Kubo*
Chorus: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (chorus conductor: Jun Abe) *
Children's Choir/Fujioka City Ono Elementary School Choir Club *
Co-performer: Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa
Yugo Kanno / New Commission (2025)
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major "Symphony of a Thousand" *
December 3 2025
Other sponsored performances
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Doors open: 13:30 Start: 14:00
Glasses Itagaki Culture Hall Isesaki
Conductor/Munetoshi Matsumoto
Baritone/Imai Shunsuke *
Tchaikovsky / The Chestnut Cracker Suite No. 1, Op. 71a
Rossini / Opera "The Barber of Seville" "I am the town's jack-of-all-trades"
Bizet / Prelude to the First Act of the Opera "Carmen"
Bizet / Toreador's Song from the opera "Carmen"
Verdi / Prelude to the First Act of the Opera "La Traviata"
Verdi / Opera "La Traviata" "Sea and Land of Provence"
Tchaikovsky/Italian Caprice
December 7 2025
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Piano: Alexei Volodin
L. Bernstein/Candide Overture
G. Gershwin/Rhapsody in Blue
C. McTee/Circuit
A. Copland / Suite "Appalachian Spring" Ballet Music
February 1 2026
Ticket Sales
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri
Carmen/Yuga Yamashita
Don Jose / Under adjustment
Escamillo/Onishi Uchu
Michaela/Eri Nakamura
Frasquita / Airi Sunada
Mercedes/Asami Fujii
Other
Chorus/GT Symphonic Concert Professional and Others Nar Singers
Bizet / Opera "Carmen" (concert Style)
February 15 2026
Ticket Sales
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
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
Ticket Sales
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/To be determined
From the Disney movie "Fantasia"
Other
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
Ticket Sales
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