Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts
October 16 2025
commissioned concert
2025 years 2 month 16 (day)
Doors open: 13:15 Start: 14:00
Haruna Cultural Center Large Hall
Strings: Gunma Symphony Orchestra String Ensemble
Wind instruments: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble (Gunma Brass Quintet)
[Part 1: String Quartet]
Mozart/Eine kleine Nachtmusik 1st movement
Vivaldi: Winter and Spring from "The Four Seasons"
Anderson/Syncopated Clock
Anderson/Sledding
Anderson/Fiddle Faddle
Anderson/Prink-Plank-Plunk
Tchaikovsky: From "The Nutcracker"
[Part 2 Brass Quintet]
Suppe/Comedy Opera “Light Cavalry” Overture
Mascagni: Intermezzo from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana"
Rodgers & Hammerstein / From "The Sound of Music"
Bernstein / From "West Side Story"
October 22 2025
Subscription Concert
For supporting groups
October 26, 2024 (Sat)
Doors open: 15:00 Show start: 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Alexander Liepreich
Double bass: Edixon Lewis *
Contrabass: Tetsuro Ichikawa (principal ensemble player) **
Giovanni Bottesini/ Passione amorosa * **
Rolf Mattinsson/Double Bass Concerto No. 1 Op. 87 *
Béla Bartók/ Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123
October 23 2025
Concert by group symphony orchestra
2025 years 2 month 23 (day)
Doors open 13:00 Performance starts 14:00
Annaka City Cultural Center Hall
Trumpet 1: Yasushi Ota (Principal Trumpeter, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Trumpet 2nd: Eiko Ikeda
Trombone: Genkai Ishimura (Gunkyo player)
Horn: Masaaki Mukai (Gunkyo Symphony Orchestra)
Tuba: Hiroyuki Matsushita (Gunkyo Symphony Orchestra)
Composer unknown / Minstrel's Song
L.Maurer / Three short pieces
P.Mascagni / Interlude from Cavalleria Rusticana
V. Ewald / Brass Quintet No. 3, XNUMXrd Movement
D.Uber / Horse Racing in the Old Days
Yo Okamura/Medley Gunma
Yo Okamura / Disney Collection
From L.Bernstein/West Side Story
October 26 2025
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
October 24, 2024 (Wed)
Doors open: 18:15 Show start: 19:00
Takasaki City Theatre Concert Hall
Contrabass: Tetsuro Ichikawa (Principal, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Double bass: Edixson Lewis (Berlin Philharmonic)
Double bass: Akira Wakabayashi (Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Contrabass: Yu Ishigami (Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Contrabass: Hiroki Katakura (Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Violin: Shunichiro Fukuda (Concertmaster)
Viola: Miyoko Ikeda (Principal)
Cello: Natsuran Nagase (Principal Cellist)
Rossini: Duo for cello and double bass
Kirsten / Partier a Tre
Rundwick / Suite "Strauss in the Doghouse" and "American Basies"
Oscher/Passacaglia *
Brumby: Suite for Double Bass Quartet
Dvorak (arranged by Akira Wakabayashi) / Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" XNUMXnd Movement *
Wood/Double Bass Quintet (2013)*
Other
October 1 2025
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
October 26, 2024 (Sat)
Doors open: 13:00 Show start: 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Violin: Fumiaki Miura
Piano: Yukio Yokoyama
Soprano: Sara Kobayashi
Supe/《Light Cavalry》Overture
Tchaikovsky/Ballet Music "Swan Lake" Selection
Kentaro Haneda (Theme Motif: Yasushi Miyagawa) / Symphony “Space Battleship Yamato”
October 2 2025
Concert by group symphony orchestra
2025 years 3 month 2 (day)
Doors open: 13:15 Show start: 14:00
Takasaki City Theatre Concert Hall
Flute: Hironori Shiramizu (Gunma Symphony Orchestra member)
Oboe: Junya Watanabe (Gunma Symphony Orchestra member)
Cello: Fanny Pousargues (Gunma Symphony Orchestra member)
Piano: Yuko Yoshioka
Lotti: Trio Sonata in A major for flute, oboe d'amore and basso continuo
CPE Bach: Sonata in A minor for solo flute
Gese: Tango Fantasia for flute and piano
Honegger: Chamber Concerto for flute, English horn and strings
Debussy / Piano Trio in G major
October 9 2025
commissioned concert
2025 years 3 month 9 (day)
Commemorative ceremony starts: 13:30
OPEN HOUSE ARENA OTA
Conductor: Yukio Fujioka
Soprano: Ayano Nonomura
Mezzo-soprano: Akiko Tomioka
Tenor: Satoru Nishimura
Baritone: Masamitsu Miyamoto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
October 13 2025
Tokyo Subscription concert
For supporting groups
October 24,2024(Thu)
Doors open: 18:00 Show start: 19:00
Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
Conductor: Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Soprano: Sara Kobayashi *
Richard Wagner/ Tristan und Isolde,: Prelude, Isolde’s Liebestod *
Gustav Mahler/ Symphony No.9 in D Major
October 15 2025
Subscription Concert
For supporting groups
October 26, 2024 (Sat)
Doors open: 15:00 Show start: 16:00
Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre
Conductor: Norichika Iimori (Permanent Conductor of the Gunkyoku Symphony Orchestra)
Soprano: Sara Kobayashi *
Richard Wagner/ Tristan und Isolde,: Prelude, Isolde’s Liebestod *
Gustav Mahler/ Symphony No.9 in D Major
October 20 2025
Other sponsored performances
For supporting groups
October 24,2024(Thu)
Doors open: 14:15 Show start: 15:00
Takasaki City Theatre Concert Hall
Violin: Fumino Ito (Solo Concertmaster)
Piano: Kazune Shimizu
Violin: Shunichiro Fukuda (Concertmaster)
Viola: Miyoko Ikeda (Principal, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Cello: Arashi Nagase (Principal, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Clarinet: Tomoya Nishikawa (Principal, Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Horn: So Hamachi (Principal of Gunma Symphony Orchestra)
Brahms/Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
Brahms/Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40
Brahms/Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34