commissioned concert

36th Takasaki New Year's Day Concert

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Doors open: 12:30 Start: 13:30

Takasaki City Theatre Grand Theatre

Conductor: Naoto Otomo
Soprano/Misaki Morino *
Violin/Rina Nakano **
Piano/Kotaro Fukuma ***

J. Strauss II / Overture to the Opera "Die Fledermaus"
Johann Strauss II / Waltz "Voices of Spring" Op. 410 *
Grieg: Prelude from Suite "From Holberg's Time", Op. 40
Handel / "Make me weep" from the opera "Rinaldo"*
Bruch / Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, 3rd movement **
Rachmaninoff / Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, 1st movement ***
Anderson/Sledding
Anderson/Prink-Plank-Plunk
Britten: Fugue from "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", Op. 34
Wagner / Overture to the opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"

Prefectural music plaza

For supporting groups

Gunma Symphony Orchestra Shibukawa New Year's Concert

Monday, January 12, 2026

Doors open: 13:15 Start: 14:00

Shibukawa Civic Hall Large Hall

Conductor: Daichi Deguchi
Saxophone/Kohei Ueno*

Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) / Symphonic poem "Night on Bald Mountain"
Ibert: Concertino for alto saxophone and 11 other instruments
Milhaud/Scaramouche*
Mussorgsky (arranged by Ravel)/Suite “Pictures at an Exhibition”

Prefectural music plaza

For supporting groups

Participating in the 49th Prefectural Arts Festival: Gunma Symphony Orchestra Symphonic Concert Symphonic Suite "Dragon Quest IV" - The Chosen Ones

Sunday, January 18, 2026

Doors open: 13:00 Show start: 14:00

Fujioka Mikabo Mirai Museum Large Hall

Conductor/Kazumasa Watanabe

Koichi Sugiyama / Symphonic Suite "Dragon Quest IV" ~The Chosen Ones~

Subscription Concert

For supporting groups

614th Subscription Concert

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