Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts
November 29 2025
Subscription Concert
For supporting groups
Saturday, November 29, 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*
Bass-baritone/Kubo Kazunori *
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" *
January 25 2026
Subscription Concert
For supporting groups
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Jan Willem de Vrynt
Viola/Miyoko Ikeda (Principal Viola, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)*
Clarinet/Tomoko Tamura (Principal Clarinet, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)*
Kosaku Yamada / Overture in D major (1912)
Bruch: Concerto for Clarinet and Viola in E minor, Op. 88*
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in C major "The Great" D944
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 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" **