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GT Symphonic Concert vol.2 Blue Note Tokyo x GT Symphonic directed by Eric Miyashiro

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Trumpet and Conductor: Eric Miyashiro
Jazz Orchestra/Blue Note Tokyo All-Star Jazz Orchestra

Spain
Rocky's Theme
Maria from "West Side Story"
Treasure Island
He is a pirate from "Pirates of the Caribbean"
Other

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610th Subscription Concert

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Masaru Kumakura
Piano/Pascal Rogé*

Sadao Betsumiya / Symphony No. 4 "Summer 1945" (1989)
Ravel / Piano Concerto in G major [150th Anniversary]*
Rachmaninoff / Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44

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Gunkyo Summer Concert 2025

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Doors open: 15:00 Start: 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Christoph Konz
Piano: Manami Suzuki*

J. Strauss II / Overture to the comic opera "Die Fledermaus" RV 503
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37*
J. Strauss II / Waltz "Where Lemon Blossoms Bloom" Op. 364
J. Strauss II / New Pizzicato Polka, Op. 449
J. Strauss II / Polka Schnell "Unfaithful" Op. 319
J. Strauss II / Emperor Waltz, Op. 437
J. Strauss II / Polka Schnell "Thunder and Lightning" Op. 324
J. Strauss II / Waltz "The Beautiful Blue Danube" Op. 314

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Meet the Orchestra! 2025 Gunma Symphony Orchestra Summer Vacation Concert ~What instrument is this? An interesting instrument!? ~ ①

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Doors open: 14:00 Start: 15:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Keitaro Harada　
Guide: Teruhisa Murayama
Viola/Miyoko Ikeda (Principal Viola Player at Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Piccolo/Hideki Nakajo (Principal flute of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Harp/Takano Reon (guest)
Bassoon/Kazumi Nanami (Principal Bassoonist of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Horn/Munemitsu Hamaji (Principal Horn Player of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone/Daisuke Ochi (Principal Trombone of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone/Genkai Ishimura (Trombonist of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone/Sakkon Ishihara (bass trombonist of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Tuba/Hiroyuki Matsushita (Tuba player of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Xylophone/Michihiro Yamamoto (Gunkyo Symphony Orchestra percussionist)

Rossini: From the Overture to the Opera "William Tell"
Brahms/Lullaby, Op. 49-4
Ryota Ishikawa/Butterfly Concerto
A. Menken (edited by Miyuko Oda) / Under the Sea
Futsik / The Old Grumbler" Op. 210
Richard Strauss / Horn Concerto No. 1, 3rd Movement
H. Fillmore / Shoutin' Liza Trombone
Offenbach / From“Orpheus in the Underworld" overture
Wilder: "Effie Joins the Carnival" from "Effie Suite"
Mussorgsky (Ravel) / "Baba Yaga" and "Great Gate of Kiev" from the suite "Pictures at an Exhibition"
J. Green/Xylophonia
Ravel/Bolero

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Meet the Orchestra! 2025 Gunma Symphony Orchestra Summer Vacation Concert ~What instrument is this? An interesting instrument!?~ ②

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Doors open: 14:00 Start: 15:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Keitaro Harada　
Guide: Teruhisa Murayama
Viola/Miyoko Ikeda (Principal Viola Player at Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Piccolo/Hideki Nakajo (Principal flute of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Harp/Takano Reon (guest)
Bassoon/Kazumi Nanami (Principal Bassoonist of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Horn/Munemitsu Hamaji (Principal Horn Player of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone/Daisuke Ochi (Principal Trombone of the Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone/Genkai Ishimura (Trombonist of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trombone/Sakkon Ishihara (bass trombonist of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Tuba/Hiroyuki Matsushita (Tuba player of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Xylophone/Michihiro Yamamoto (Gunkyo Symphony Orchestra percussionist)

Rossini: From the Overture to the Opera "William Tell"
Brahms/Lullaby, Op. 49-4
Ryota Ishikawa/Butterfly Concerto
A. Menken (edited by Miyuko Oda) / Under the Sea
Futsik / The Old Grumbler" Op. 210
Richard Strauss / Horn Concerto No. 1, 3rd Movement
H. Fillmore / Shoutin' Liza Trombone
Offenbach / From“Orpheus in the Underworld" overture
Wilder: "Effie Joins the Carnival" from "Effie Suite"
Mussorgsky (Ravel) / "Baba Yaga" and "Great Gate of Kiev" from the suite "Pictures at an Exhibition"
J. Green/Xylophonia
Ravel/Bolero

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GT Symphonic Concert vol.3 The Essence of Romanticism: Brahms All-Brahms Program

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Violin/Hina Maeda *

Brahms: Violin Concerto*
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

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611th Subscription Concert

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi

Takashi Yoshimatsu / Birds are Quiet... Work 72 (1997)
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K.551 "Jupiter"
Dvorak / Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World" Op. 95 B.178

commissioned concert

[Free Invitation Performance] The 36th Takasaki Music Festival Opening Concert by Gunma Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Naoto Otomo

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Doors open: 15:00 Start: 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Cello/Michiaki Ueno *

Hideaki Hagimori / "Kachashi" from "Okinawa Symphony Almanac"
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104*
Mussorgsky (arranged by Ravel) / Suite "Pictures at an Exhibition"

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612th Subscription Concert

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Doors open 15:00 Performance starts 16:00

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Pierre Dumousseau
Accordion/Félicien Brussels *

Toru Takemitsu / Requiem for Strings (1957)
Debussy / Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Waksman/Accordion Concerto "Island of Time"*
Perrine/Accordionist Caprice*
Ravel / Suite No. 150 from the ballet music "Daphnis and Chloe" [XNUMXth Anniversary of Birth]
Ravel/Bolero [150th Anniversary]

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OPERA Takano Saint

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Doors open 16:30 Performance starts 17:30

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Priest (tenor)/Hironori Shiro
Woman (soprano)/Akiko Tomihira
Oyaji, Housekeeper of a Woman's House (Baritone) / Shunsuke Imai
Medicine Seller (Baritone) / Kadota Yu
The Man with the Balance Pole (tenor) / Yohei Kondo
Child-like Man (tenor) / Ryo Tokuyasu
Me/Interviewer (Baritone)/Yosuke Takahashi
Teahouse Woman (soprano) / Kumi Ishikawa
Dancer / Sankai Juku
Narration and voice acting: Tamasaburo Bando
Chorus: Japan Opera Association Takano Sei Chorus
Orchestra: Gunma Symphony Orchestra
Script by Kenya Oda (script supplement by Jun Hara)
Script translation by Jun Ieda
Directed by Jun Hara
Art by Shigeaki Tsuchiya
Video/Mucho Muramatsu
Lighting: Satoru Tsukamoto
Costumes: Jun Hara
Hair and makeup by: Seiko Kitou
Choreography: Semimaru (Sankai Juku)
Guidance on movements/Ranko Fujima
Stage director: Jun Ito
Assistant Director: Naaya Miura
Publicity illustration by Takato Yamamoto

Fuichiro Ikebe / Opera "Kumano Hijiri"