Performance calendar
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GUNMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
concerts
January 1 2026
commissioned 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"
January 12 2026
Prefectural music plaza
For supporting groups
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”
January 18 2026
Prefectural music plaza
For supporting groups
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~
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